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ge-swingan

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In last passage l. ge-swingdon, and add: [weak forms occur in Lind.] Geswuing uapulabit, Lk. L. 12, 48. Æfter ðon gesuingeð hiá (geswungen bið, R. ) postquam flagellauerint, 18, 33. Gesuuingde (giswicte (=-swencte?

íþan

(v.)
Grammar
íþan, to lay waste.
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ydwe, MS. ) wylce wan wætere gelíc /te clothed himself with cursing. . . it laid waste kis inward parts, fought like a flood; induit se maledictione . . . etintravit sicut aqua in interiora ejus, Ps. Th. 108, 18. Íðende depopulans, Wrt.

Linked entry: ydwe

læfer

Grammar
læfer, <b>. I.</b>
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Liversedge, Liverpool; cf. eá-lifer. Add Læfer lamina (auri), An. Ox. 2, 26. Læfrum petalis (deauratis ), 5497. Leafrum, 2, 497. In Hml. Th. ii. 498, 3 læfrum translates laminis. v. reád-læfer, gold-læfer

mid-dæg

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what wilt thou do if to-morrow I live to see midday? Hml. S. 3, 590. Fram middæge oð nón a sexta hora usque ad horam nonam, 27, 188. Add

stæf-rǽw

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Dict.] a line or passage in a document or inscription Hé þǽrinne funde áne leádene tabulan eall áwritene; and þá hé hí rǽdde, þá cóm hé tó þǽre stæfrǽwe þǽr hé ꝥ word funde áwriten . . . ꝥ hí fram Decie þám cásere flugon, and his éhtnysse þoledon, Hml

wærþu

(n.)
Grammar
wærþu, (-o); indecl. f.

Sagacity, cunning, cleverness

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Sagacity, cunning, cleverness Gif him lífes weard of móde ábrít ðæt micle dysig ðæt hit oferwrigen mid wunode lange, þonne ic wát ðæt hí ne wundriaþ mæniges þinges ðe monnum nú wærþo and wunder þynceþ (many a thing that now seems very clever and wonderful

on-timbran

(v.)

to instruct, edify

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Hé wolde mid his láre and mid his lífes bysene beón ontimbred, Blickl. Homl. 217, 14

Linked entry: on-timberness

slidor

(n.)
Grammar
slidor, es; n.(?)

a slippery, miry placelubricumlabinaa myre

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In a list giving names of things connected with ships slidor glosses pulvini(pulvini machinae quibus naves deducuntur et sub-ducuntur in portumDu Cange) 56, 54

byrgen

(n.)
Grammar
byrgen, byrgenn, birgen, byrigen, burgen, e; f. [beorg tumulus]
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H. 83, § 6; Th. i. 591. during the time that the dead body remained unburied, the relations and friends assembled to watch or wake over it [this watching or waking is mentioned under the word líc a body, see líc II.] and this proceeding was evidently

a-rǽran

(v.)
Grammar
a-rǽran, p. de; pp. ed; v. trans. [a, rǽran to rear, raise]

To rear upraise uplift upexaltset upbuild upcreateestablisherigereexcitareresuscitareextollereædificarecreare

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To rear up, raise up, lift up, exalt, set up, build up, create, establish; erigere, excitare, resuscitare, extollere, ædificare, creare Ðone stán arǽrde to mearce lapidem erexit in titulum, Gen. 28, 18, 22.

mynecenu

(n.)
Grammar
mynecenu, e ; f. The feminine form corresponding to masc. munuc
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[Ealra ðare landa ðe intó ðæ mynechina lífe æt Wiltúne forgifene synt, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 117, 25

ge-regnian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-regnian, -rénian; p. ode; pp. od, ad

To put, dispose, adorn

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Lii hit oftræd and hie to loman gerénode ðæt hie mec ǽnigre note nytte beón ne meahton 52 it trode down and made them cripples so that they could be of no use to me; calcatos inutiles fecit, Nar. 15, 26.

ge-nerian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-nerian, -nergan, -nerigan; p. ede, ode; pp. ed, od

To save, deliver, take away, set free, preserve, defendservare, redimere, liberare, eripere, salvum facere, defendere

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We mágon feorh generigan we may save life, Cd. 117; Th. 152, 22; Gen. 2524. Ic hine generige eripiam eum, Ps. Th. 90. 16. He generaþ híg eripiet eos, Ps. Spl. 33, 7. Oswio his ðeóde generede Osuiu suam gentem liberavit, Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 14.

Linked entry: nerian

þunian

(v.)
Grammar
þunian, p. ode.

to stand outbe prominentbe lifted upstick upto be lifted upbe proudto be stuck upto make a noiseto soundresoundcreak

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Hié gesáwon fyrd wegan ... þúfas þunian they saw the host march ... saw the standards lift their tops above the ranks, Cd. Th. 187, 32; Exod, 158. Þindan and þunian, þecene hebban, Exon.

Linked entries: þundende tó-þuniende

botl

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Th. ii. 144, 3. ꝥ se líg náht þǽre burge botles ne gehrínan ne dorste ut flamma contingere quidquam aedi-ficii non auderet, Gr. D. 48, 11.

cwic

(adj.)
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Scealt þú eal ꝥ deáde of ásníþan oþ ꝥ cwice líc, Lch. ii. 82, 27. Þá Rómáne hié cuce bebyrgdan. Ac . . . hié mid hiera cucum onguldon þæt hié ungyltige cwealdon, Ors. 4, 7; S. 184, 6-10

eall-swá

(adv.)
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Se wítega wæs ealswá genumen tó ðám óðrum lífe, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 61, 140. adverbial conjunction. as Ealswá ut, An. Ox. 316. Hí dydon eallswá hí bewuna wǽron, Chr. 1001; P. 133, 20.

efen

(n.)
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Ꝥ ilce ꝥ hé lifde in líchaman, hit wǽre efen þan þe hé eallinga bútan þám líchaman eall wǽre totum jam extra carnem est, hoc ipsum quod vivit in carne, Gr. D. 218, 12.

æcer

field, land of arable landthe crop raised on the landa definite quantity of land, an acre

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Similar entries v. bydel-, lín-, sulh-æcer, bóc-æceras

on-gildan

(v.)

to pay (a penally for), to be punished for (with gen. acc. of crime or clause)to payto give an offering, to offer

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Th. 304, 17; Fä. 71. to pay Hwylc hira óðrum sceolde tó fóddurþege feores ongildan which should pay for the others food with his life, Andr. Kmbl. 2204; An. 1103. to give an offering, to offer Ðǽr hǽðene men deóflum onguldon, Blickl. Homl. 221, 3

Linked entries: an-gildan on-gyldan