Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

riht

(adj.)
Grammar
riht, adj.

erect, directright, straight agreeable to the spirit of law, human or divine, just, equitable the requirements of a lawregulation, legitimate, lawful, regular satisfying the demands of conduct, right, proper, fitting satisfying the requirements of a standard, right, correct, true, orthodox

Entry preview:

Gif hire forþsíð getímige ǽr him, ðonne is hit rihtast ðæt hé ðanon forþ búton ǽlcum wífe wunige, Wulfst. 304, 23.

lagu

(n.)
Grammar
lagu, e; f.

Lawstatutedecreeregulationrulefixed custom

Entry preview:

Gif hé hine ládian wille ðæt be ðam deópestan áðe on Engla lage and on Dena lage be ðam ðe heora lagu sí if he will clear himself, let him do it by the most solemn oath in the district under English law; in that under Danish, by what their law may

Linked entries: laga lah ge-lagu

CEALF

(n.)
Grammar
CEALF, celf, calf, es; cealfru, calfru; n. m.

A CALFvitulus, vitula

Entry preview:

Ic ne on-foo of húse ðínum calferu non accipiam de domo tua vitulos, Ps. Surt. 49, 9. On-settaþ ofer wi-bed ðín calfer acc. pl. imponent super altare tuum vitulos, 50, 21

un-bildu

(n.)
Grammar
un-bildu, un-bildo; indecl. f.

Want of boldnessweaknessirresolutioninconstancy

Entry preview:

Ða lytelmódan and ða unðrístan ðonne hié ongietaþ hiera unbældo and hiera unmiehte pusillanimes dum nimis infirmitatis suae sunt conscii, 32; Swt. 209, 7

Linked entries: un-bældo bildu

on-sagu

(n.)
Grammar
on-sagu, e; f.

A charge brought against a person, accusation

Entry preview:

A charge brought against a person, accusation Á biþ andsæc swíðere ðonne onsagu, i.e. in a case where a charge is brought against a person, and it is met with a denial attested by the proper legal formalities, the case against him fails, L.

Linked entry: sagu

LUST

(n.)
Grammar
LUST, es; m.

LUSTdesirepleasurevoluptuousness

Entry preview:

Mid lustum, Dóm. L. 6, 70. Wesan on lustum to live joyously, Cd. 23; Th. 30, 26; Gen. 473. Here wæs on lustum joyous were the people, Judth. 11; Thw. 23, 38; Jud. 162.

Linked entry: lustume

horn

Entry preview:

Ic cwæð tó ðǽm ðe syngodon: ' Ne hebbe gé tó úp eówre hornas. ' Ðonne áhebbað ðá synfullan swíðe úp hira hornas, ðonne hí hí nǽfre nyllað geeáðmédan . . . Past. 425, 21-24. a vessel formed from a horn, a drinking-horn, v. drync(e)-, wín-horn; andcf.

Beda

(n.)
Grammar
Beda, an; m.

Venerable Bede

Entry preview:

. - Mid ðý ic wæs seofon wintre, ðá wæs ic mid gýmenne mínra maga seald to fédanne and to lǽranne ðam árwurþan Abbude Benedicte, and Ceolfriþe æfter ðon and syððan ealle tíd mínes lífes on ðæs ylcan Mynstres eardunge, ic wæs dónde, and ealle geornnesse

stille

(adj.)
Grammar
stille, adj.
Entry preview:

Past. 41, 1 ; Swt. 299, 20. abstaining from, quit of. v. stillness, Sió hé stille his þegnungæ óð biscopes dóm, L. Wih. 6 ; Th. i. 38, 11

þringan

(v.)
Grammar
þringan, p. þrang, pl. þrungon; pp. þrungen.

To presscrowdthrongto throngpress round, uponcrowd togetherto pressmove with violence, eagernesshurrypress onpress forwardforce a way

Entry preview:

Hé on ðæt weorod þrong for ðon ðe him wæs leófre ðæt hiene mon ofslóge ðonne hiene mon gebunde he pressed into the host (of the enemy), because he would rather be slain than made prisoner, Ors. 5, 12; Swt. 244, 12.

emn-gód

(adj.)
Grammar
emn-gód, adj.

Equally good æque bŏnus

Entry preview:

Equally good; æque bŏnus Nán wuht nis betere ðonne God ne emngód him no creature is better than God nor equally good with him, Bt. 34, 3; Fox 138, 7. Nyton náuht emngód they know nothing equally good, 34, 2; Fox 136, 4

Linked entry: efen-gód

éðyl

(n.)
Grammar
éðyl, es; m.

A native countrypatria, terra

Entry preview:

A native country, country; patria, terra Gesǽton eard and éðyl unspédigran ðonne se frumstól wæs they inhabited a dwelling and a country more barren than was the first settlement, Cd. 46; Th. 59, 11; Gen. 962: 73; Th. 90, 9; Gen. 1492

leloþre

(n.)
Grammar
leloþre, [error for geloþre according to Cockayne. v. gelod-wyrt],
Entry preview:

A kind of dock Lelodrae lapatium ( = λάπαθoν; cf. uude docce lapatium, Lchdm. iii. 303, col. 2), Ep. Gl. 13 f, 31. Lelothras radinape, 22 b, 32. Leloþre lapadium, Wrt. Voc. 69, 14: ii. 54, 24. Lelodrae lapatium, 112, 35. Lelothrae rodinope, 119, 24

ostre

(n.)
Grammar
ostre, an; f.
Entry preview:

Ðonne cumaþ ða oftost of mettum and of cealdum drincan swá swá sindon cealde ostran and æpla, Lchdm. ii. 244, 2: Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 9

pín-treów

(n.)
Grammar
pín-treów, es; n.
Entry preview:

Ðæt man píntreów bærne tó glédum and ðonne ða gléda sette tóforan ðam seócum men, 284, 12

bi-hlǽman

(v.)

to fall uponstrepitu obruere

Entry preview:

to overwhelm with noise, to fall upon; strepitu obruere Ðonne foldbúende se micla dæg meahtan Dryhtnes mægne bihlǽmeþ then the great day of the mighty Lord will fall with might upon the earth's inhabitants, Exon, 20 b; Th. 54, 18; Cri. 870

Linked entry: be-hlǽman

teosol

(n.)
Grammar
teosol, teosul, teosel, es; m.
Entry preview:

Tæfles monnes, ðonne teoselum weorpeþ, Exon. Th. 345, 9; Gn. Ex. 185. Tesulas tesseras, Txts. 114, 84

Linked entries: tæslum tasol tesulas

un-ástíðod

(adj.)
Grammar
un-ástíðod, adj.

Not made firm

Entry preview:

Not made firm Gif mon on níwne weall unádrugodne and unástíðodne micelne hróf and hefigne onsett, ðonne ne timbreþ hé nó healle ac hryre quod structuris recentibus necdum solidatis, si tignorum pondus superponitur, non habitaculum sed ruina fabricatur

Linked entry: á-stíðian

wamm-sceaþa

(n.)
Grammar
wamm-sceaþa, an; m.
Entry preview:

An evil-doer, a sinner, criminal Áwyrged womsceaða (the devil), Exon. Th. 255, 8; Jul. 211. Wornsceaþan ( the wicked, at the day of judgement ), 75, 23 ; Cri. 1226: 96, 7 ; Cri. 1570. Áwyrgede womsceaðan, leáse leódhatan. árleásra sceolu, Elen.

cwellan

Entry preview:

Ðá men ðe wénað ðæt hí cwéman Gode ðonne hí cwellað hyra oxan, Prov. K. 67. Cwealdon necarent, Wrt. Voc. ii. 61, 53. Tó cwellene (-ende, An. Ox. 4508) truncanda, decollanda, occidenda, Hpt. Gl. 511, 2. Hí [wǽron] cwealde mactarentur, 478, 47. Add