iuc-sticca
Entry preview:
The bar of a yoke Ioc-sticca obicula, Ælfc. Gl. 3; Som. 55, 61; Wrt. Voc. 16, 33. (Cf. O. H. Ger. iuh-rota pertica, Grff. ii. 491.]
lǽrestre
an instructress ⬩ preceptress
Entry preview:
A female teacher, an instructress, preceptress Lǽrestre doctrix, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 64; Zup. 71, 8. Siððan clypode heó hire tó ða ylcan lǽrestran, Homl. Th. ii. 543, 8
hárung
Entry preview:
Add: greyness Hárung canicies, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 82, 14. a growing grey-haired, old age Oð ylde and hárunga usque in senectam et senium, Ps. L. 70, 18
grytta
Entry preview:
Dele last passage, for which see hwǽte-gryttan, and add Hic furfur þás grytta, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 48, 17. Berene gryta (gritta, v. l. ), Lch. i. 354, 2
in-hebban
Entry preview:
Hé wénde swíðe þæt ǽnig ælda ǽfre [ne] meahte swá fæstlice forescyttelsas on écnesse ó inhebban (o in hebba, MS. ), oððe þæs ceasterhlides clúster onlúcan, Cri. 313. Add
heáfod-bolster
A pillow
Entry preview:
A pillow Heáfdbolster capitale, Ælfc. Gl. 27; Som. 60, 104; Wrt. Voc. 25, 44. Under ðínum heáfodbolstre under thy pillow, L. M. 3, 58; Lchdm. ii. 342, 14
cnyssung
A striking ⬩ stroke ⬩ ictus
Entry preview:
A striking, stroke; ictus Of ðære lyfte cnyssunge from the striking of the air Ælfc. Gr. 1; Som. 2, 30. Sweng oððe cnyssung ictus 43; Som. 44, 55
cǽpe-hús
a merchant ⬩ a house ⬩ A storehouse ⬩ armarium
Entry preview:
[ Similar entries cépa a merchant, Similar entries hús a house] A storehouse; armarium Ælces cynnes cǽpe-hús armarium, Ælfc. Gl. 109; Som. 79, 19; Wrt. Voc. 58, 59
á-teorodness
Exhaustion ⬩ coming to an end
Entry preview:
Exhaustion, coming to an end Þá hálgan scínað and on þǽre beorhtnysse hí beóð ǽfre wunigende búton áteorodnysse (the brightness will never be exhausted), Hml. A. 44, 495
wæl
the slain ⬩ the dead ⬩ a number of slain, ⬩ a single corpse ⬩ a slain person ⬩ slaughter ⬩ carnage ⬩ destruction
Entry preview:
Th. 477, 17; Ruin. 26. in an abstract sense, of destruction in war, slaughter, carnage Wæl on gefeohte strages, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 27;Zup. 53, 5. Mycel wæl (wælfill, MS. A.) gewearð on Brytene æt Wódnesbeorge, Chr. 592; Erl. 19, 34.
for-swelgan
To swallow up ⬩ devour ⬩ absorb ⬩ devŏrāre ⬩ degluttīre ⬩ absorbēre
Entry preview:
Syndon hí æt stáne forswolgene absorpti sunt juxta petram, Ps. Th. 140, 8. Heó beóþ forswelgene they shall be swallowed up, 57, 8
Linked entries: for-sweolgan swelgan
hræd
Quick ⬩ swift ⬩ speedy ⬩ sudden ⬩ alert ⬩ rapid ⬩ prompt ⬩ active
Entry preview:
Quick, swift, speedy, sudden, alert, rapid, prompt, active Hræd oððe glæd agilis: hræddre agilior: ealra hrædost agillimus, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 5, 6. Hræd oððe glæd alacer, 9, 18; Som. 9, 66. Tó hræd ierre præceþs ira, Past. 13, 2; Swt. 79, 14, 11.
ge-sceppan
To form, create ⬩ formare, disponere, creare
Entry preview:
Ǽr ðæt ðec ic gesceópe prius quam to formarem, Rtl. 55. 4. Nǽron náwðer ne on Fresisc gescæpene ne on Denisc they were formed neither, on a Frisian nor on a Danish model, Chr. 897; Erl. 95, 15.
Linked entries: ge-scippan ge-scyppan
á-leógan
Entry preview:
Ðæt man Gode beháte ne áleóge man ǽfre, Wlfst. 71, 6. Deófol wyle gedón þæt wé áleógan þæt þæt wé behétan, 38, 6. <b>I a.
el-þeódig
foreign ⬩ stranger ⬩ foreign
Entry preview:
Hé dǽlde þǽre cyrcan máðmas ælðeódigun ðearfum, i. 418, 17. ¶ figuratively: Swelce hé sié elðiédig (æl-, v. l.) on ðissum middangearde, Past. 140, 20. Wé synd on þisse worlde ælþeódige, Bl.
folgoþ
service ⬩ office ⬩ authority
Entry preview:
S. 37, 192. the district in which office is held: Se biscop ámanige þá oferhýrnesse æt þám geréfan þe hit on his folgoðe sý, Ll. Th. i. 214, 3. Ǽnne castel on Herefordscíre on Swegenes eorles folgode, Chr. 1048; P. 174, l.
for-seón
to despise ⬩ hold in contempt ⬩ to reject ⬩ to reject ⬩ to refuse
Entry preview:
Gif ðæt mód ǽr ne forsáwe ðá écan edleán, Past. 435, 3. Forseónde spernendo, R. Ben. I. 61, 11. Hé ne mæg geþyldgian ðæt hé for ðisse worlde sié forsewen (fore-, v. l.), Past. 216, 7. Forsáwen (-saw-?), Chr. 975; P. 120, 18 note.
ge-gaderian
Entry preview:
Gif þú ǽnne stán tóclifst, ne wyrþ hé nǽfre gegaderod swá hé ǽr wæs, Bt. 34, 11; F. 150, 26.
strica
Entry preview:
a stroke of a pen, a tittle, a mark, line Ánatrica oððe án stæf ðære ealdan ǽ ne biþ forgǽged iota unum aut unus apex non praeteribit (Mt. 5, 18), Homl. Th. ii. 200, 1: Jud. 15. Strican ł mærcunge characteres Hpt. Gl. 473, 13.
swindan
To waste away, languish, grow languid, be consumed ⬩ tabescere, tabefieri, deficere, conticescere ⬩ to dwindle, decay, die away
Entry preview:
(v. ǽ-swind. ) Swindan (tabescere) ðú dydesð sáwle his, Ps. Spl. 38, 15 : 118, 139. on ðam frumwylme heora gecyrrednesse hý Hísylfe fulfremede taliaþ, ac hý swíþe recene áwlaciaþ and swindende ácóliaþ, R. Ben. 135, 6