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Lega-ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Lega-ceaster, e ; f.
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Chester Hié gedydon on ánre wéstre ceastre on Wírhealum, seó is Legaceaster (Leg-, Liege-, Lige-, v. ll. ) geháten, Chr. 894; P. 88, 6.

on-liþian

(v.)
Grammar
on-liþian, on-leoþian
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D. 222, 4. figurative In hefigum wísum ealle þá (various faults) after deáðe hefigiað, gif hí nǽron ná ǽr gebétte ne ná onleoðode þá hwíle þe se man wæs in þissum lífe quae cuncta etiam post mortem gravant, si adhuc in hac vita positis minime fuerint

Linked entry: on-leoþian

á-teorigendlic

getting exhaustedweariedfailingtransitoryperishabledefective

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Þá ðing ðe wé geseóð on ðisum lífe sind áteorigendlice, 252, 6. Sé ðe forlǽt ðá áteorigendlican ðing, hé underféhð þá gástlican méde, 398, 4 : Hml. A. 46, 536. in grammar, defective þæt is áteorigendlic, Reor is defectivum, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 161, 20.

geár

(n.)
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Mænig gér, Bt. 29, l; F. 102, 21 note. (2 a) the years of a person's life :-- Geáras míne anni mei Ps. L. 30, II.. and heora geára gancg, Ps. Th. 77, 32. as a chronological unit, for the purposes of the calendar Be ðæs geáres tídum.

be-cuman

to comeget,to come to powerget into troubleto come toby to cometo a personto befallto becomebehove

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Becuman tó þǽm écean lífe, Bl. H. 77, 21. Ne magon ðider fullíce becuman ðá stæpas ðæs weorces ðieder ðe hé wilnað quo desiderium innititur, illuc gressus oferis efficaciter non sequuntur, Past. 65, 17.

LECGAN

(v.)
Grammar
LECGAN, p. legde, lægde, léde

to layplaceputlayto slay

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To cause to lie. to lay, place, put, lay [a dead body in the grave.] Syððan hé ðanne grundweall legþ postea quam posuerit fundamentum, Lk. Skt. 14, 29.

æftera

(num.; adj.)
Grammar
æftera, æftra; adj. compar. of æfter,—

Hindernextsecondposteriorsequensaltersecundus

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Siððan ic ongon on ðone æfteran ánseld búgan after Ihad begun to live in this second hermitage, Exon, 50b; Th. 176, 22 ; Gú. 1214

Linked entries: æfterra æftemest

óþ-ferian

(v.)
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to bear off Ic unsófte ðonan feorh ðþferede næs ic fǽge ðágyt not easily thence (the conflict with Grende's mother) did I bring away life, but not then had my hour come (cf. last passage under óþ*-*lǽdan), Beo. Th. 4288; B. 2141.

rand-burh

(n.)
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Or are the walls formed by the water compared to the arrangement of the line of battle when the shields overlapped, called scild-burh q. v. ? v. next word

gristbitian

(v.)
Grammar
gristbitian, p. ode, ede
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Tóþum gristbitaþ [gristbitteþ, Lind.] stridet dentibus, Mk. Skt. 9, 18. He grennade and gristbitade he grinned and ground his teeth. Exon. 74 b; Th. 278, 12; Jul. 596. Gristbitedon mid heora tóþum ongeán me striderunt in me dentibus suis, Ps.

Linked entry: gristbátian

stig

(n.)
Grammar
stig, (?), es; n.
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the word occurs at the head of a list 'de suibus'), Wrt. Voc. i. 286, 41. Stigu auriola (oriola? oriolum porticus, atrium, Migne), Txts. 38, 45. Cf. (?) forestige vestibulum, introitum, Hpt. Gl. 514, 59.

Linked entries: stigian stigo stigu

tíd-ege

(n.)
Grammar
tíd-ege, (?), es; m.
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, one of three things, disease or age or violence, crushes the life out of the fey man, outward bound from this world, Exon. Th. 310, 3; Seef. 69

tungol-wítega

(n.)
Grammar
tungol-wítega, an; m.
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Æfter ðære tíde ðe hé geáxode fram ðám tungolwítegum ( Magis; drýum, Lind.), Mt. Kmbl. 2, 16. Hé clypode on sundersprǽce ða tungelwítegan, 2, 7: Homl. Th. i. 78, 17

óleccung

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Ic wéne ꝥ hit ne sý unrihtwísnysse, þeáh þú wífes brúce and blysse on lífe.' Ðá andwyrde Eugenia þyssere ólecunge, Hml. S. 2,162. Add Ðæt hé náuðer ne nánum men ne ólicce, ne hé nánes monnes óleccunga ne réce, Past. 383, 12

ofer-gitol

(adj.)
Grammar
ofer-gitol, -geotol; adj.

Forgetful, oblivious

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Lind. 16, 5

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wlitig

(adj.)
Grammar
wlitig, adj.

Beautifulcomelyfairbeauteousglorious

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Þúhte fæger and wlitig heora líf, Blickl. Homl. 107, 30. Is ðín nama mǽre, wlitig and wuldorfæst, Cd. Th. 234, 3; Dan. 286. Wlitigan wilsíþes, Exon. Th. 2, 18; Cri. 21. Gǽst weorcum wlitigne, 180, II; Gú. 1278.

niht

(n.)
Grammar
niht, næht, næct, neaht, neht, nyht, e; f.: but also with gen. es.

nightnightdarknessnight

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Lind. Rush. 2, 8 : Mt. Kmbl. Lind. Rush. 14, 25. Swá swá se beorhta dæg tódrǽfþ ða dimlícan þeóstru ðære sweartan nihte, Homl.Th. i. 604, 2. On dæge and ná on nihte, 36, 28.

sáwel

(n.)
Grammar
sáwel, ol, ul, sáwl, sául, sówhul, ¨ e; f.

The soulthe soul, the animal lifethe soul,a soul, a human creature

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Sául, 282, 23: ii. 7, 75. the soul, the animal life Ic secge mínre sáwle: 'Eálá sáwel, ðú hæfst mycele gód . . . gerest ðé, et, drinc, and gewista.

Linked entry: sáwel-leás

aspide

(n.)
Grammar
aspide, es; m.

An aspviperserpentaspisĭdisάσπίsίδοs

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Anlíc nædran, ða aspide ylde nemnaþ like a serpent, which men call an asp, Ps. Th. 57, 4. Spl. Lamb. in Ps. 57, 4 have nædran instead of aspide. Ðú ofer aspide miht gangan thou mayest go over an asp [super aspidem], Ps.

a-wegan

(v.)
Grammar
a-wegan, p. -wæg, -wæh, pl. -wǽgon ; pp. -wegen ; v. trans.

to lift uptake or carry awaylevareauferreto weigh outweigh to any oneappendere

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to lift up, take or carry away; levare, auferre Hí á sibbe gelǽraþ, ða ǽr wonsǽlge awegen habbaþ they shall ever advise peace, which the unblest have before taken away, Exon. 89 a ; Th. 334, 25; Gn. Ex. 21: Homl.

Linked entries: a-wæh a-weged a-wegen