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hreðer

(n.)
Grammar
hreðer, hræðer, hraðer, es; m. [?]

Breastbosom

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Æt helle duru dracan eardigaþ háte on hreðre at hell's door dwell dragons that send fire from within [firedrakes ], Cd. 215; Th. 271, 1; Sat. 99. Baðu hát on hreðre hot baths, Exon. 124 b; Th. 478, 16; Ruin. 42; Beo. Th. 6287; B. 3148.

Linked entries: hraðer hreðor

be-werian

(v.)

prohibitforbidto protectdefend

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Mé Godes wracu þá duru bewerede, Hml. S. 23 b, 417. Se Hálga Gást hié ǽghwylc gód lǽrde, and him ǽghwylc yfel bewerede, Bl. H. 131, 30. ꝥeáh þe se bysceop him ꝥ swíðe bewerede episcopo multum prohibente, Bd. 5, 19; Sch. 661, 17.

ge-wyrht

(n.)
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Add: <b>ge-wyrhtu, gewyrhto;</b> f. a work Dó á þætte duge. Deág þín gewyrhtu ; God þé bið symle góda gehwylces freá and fultum feónd þám óðrum wyrsan gewyrhta do ever what may profit.

híwisc

Grammar
híwisc, l. híwisce, híwisc. For suffix cf. ídisc(e).

a familyhouse

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Ðis his ðæs híwisces landgemǽro on Wiht (cf. duas mansas, unam mansam in Uecta Insula, aliam ... æt Uuinterburnan, ii. 299, 6-10), 431, 7-16. Æt hilcan híwisce, v. 147, 13. Oð ídel híwisce (land where no family was living?

lícettan

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Hié lícettað ðæt hié ðæt ðón ðurh eáðmódnesse, Past. 302, 8: 9: 427, 17. Hé lícette ꝥ hé úþwita wǽre.

ge-beran

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Gif mon sié dumb oþþe deáf geboren, Ll. Th. i. 70, 14. Blindum giborenum (caeca nato) égo untýndist. Rtl. 101, 38

standan

Grammar
standan, <b>I 2.</b>
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Add Ꝥ wæter wæs standende and beleác þá duru þǽre cyrican the water formed as it were a wall, and closed the entrance to the church, Gr. D. 220, 16. add Þara six hída þæ ꝥ mynstær on stent, C. D. iii. 274, 9.

wífian

(v.)
Grammar
wífian, p. ode

To take a wifeto marryon

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Wífigende and gyfta syllende nubentes et nubtum tradentes, 24, 38. with an object governed by on Be ðam men ðe wífaþ on twám ge*-*swystrenum de homine qui duas sorores in matrimonium ducit, L. Ecg. P. ii. 11, tit. ; Th. ii. 180, 18.

on

(prep.)
Grammar
on, an ; prep. adv. A.

expressing local relations, rest upon and contact with an object, ondependence upon an objectextension over a surfacenearnessin or at a place, or with a personrest where one object is contained in another, or is surrounded by others, within, among; and metaphorically inmarking the seat of feeling, thought, etc., in, within, at on, at, in within, in the course of, in, during on, a-fromon, in, at by, with of, consisting of or inin respect to, in the matter of, inin, ofat (a distance), of (the weight of),with, inin accordance withofinmotion, actual or figurative, which is external to the object expressed by the word which on governs, upon, on, on to, tomarking motion from without to the inside, into, among continuously, together, anon, at once expressing temporal relations,on, in, atinto (one's power, etc. )against in accordance withmarking the object of thought, emotion, speech, trust, sightmarking pricein (the name of), by (in adjuration)

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Ðú forþfærst on sybbe, ðonne se tíma cymþ, on gódre ylde, Gen. 15, 15: Bd. 2, 15; S. 519, 14: 5, 19; S. 641, 14. Ða welegan hé forlǽteþ on ídelnesse . . . Drihten is on ðínum fultume, Blickl. Homl. 5, 9-12.

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ge-met

(adj.)
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VI. what is meet or adequate, due amount or degree :-- Gif him þegniað mæged and mæcgas mid gemete (fitly, adequately) ryhte, fédað hine fægre, Rä. 51, 7. Þé gemete (cf. un-gemet; II a) monige þeówiað, Gú. 472.

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Ðú, Capharnaum, hú wið in heofonum ðú ðec áhefes? tu, Capharnaum, numquid usque in caelum exaltaberis?, Mt. L. 11, 23. Hú ! onsuæræstú suǽ ðǽm biscobi? sic respondis pontifici?, Jn.

healdan

(v.)
Grammar
healdan, haldan; p. heóld; pp. healden.

to HOLD, keep, grasp, retain, restrain, confine, containto hold, have, possess, occupy, inhabitto rule, governto behave, conductto guard, defend, keep, preserve, protect, maintain, sustain, regard, observe, take heedto hold out, last, hold on, continue, hold withto hold, keep, keep sheepservare, custodire

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Ðú ðe heofonhámas healdest and wealdest qui habitas in cælo, Ps. Th. 122, 1. Hér Cynegils féng tó ríce and heóld xxxi wintra in this year Cynegils came to the throne and held it thirty-one years, Chr. 611; Erl. 20, 34.

of

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Hé Godes lage and láre forlǽt, and ðurh deófles láre of dám déð ðe his crístendóme tó gebyreð, Wlfst. 78, 15. Of wlite wendað wæstma gecyndu, Gú. 15.

Róm-feoh

(n.)
Grammar
Róm-feoh, gen. -feós; n.

Peter's pence

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So too in the laws of William I : 'Cil ki ad aueir champestre xxx. deñ vaillant deit duner le deñ sein Piere,' Th. i. 474. And see note on p. 170. See too the laws of Henry I : 'Romfech in festo Sancti Petri ad Vincula debet reddi,' Th. i. 520. v.

ge-mearcian

(v.)
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Cf. míl-gemearc Þæt þanon wǽre tó helle duru hund þúsenda míla gemearcodes, Sae. 724. to make a mark on Hú Martirius gemearcode þone hláf, Gr. D. 86, 12.

óþer

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Betweoh hire óðer twá sweostor inter duas alias sorores suas, Gr. D. 286, 9 (2 a) add :-- Þá byrig hé geseah eall on óþre wísan gewend, on óþre heó ǽr wæs, and þá gebotla eall getimbrode on óþre wísan, on óþre hí ǽr wǽron, Hml. S. 23, 509-512.

smæl

(adj.)
Grammar
smæl, adj.

Smallsmall, little, not greatnarrow, not broadslender, thin, not thickfine not coarse not loud gracilis, exilis, subtilis, minutus, strictus a sheep, small cattle

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Genim swýðe smæl dust 240, 11. Smæl beren mela ii. 86, 24. Ásifte smale þurh smæl sife sift through a fine sieve 94, 1: 72, 28. Hí smalo hrægel wefaþ and wyrceaþ texendis subtilioribus indumentis operam dant Bd. 4, 25; S. 601, 16.

ge-mót

(n.)
Grammar
ge-mót, es; n.

A meeting, coming together, MOOT, assembly, councilconventus, congregatio, concursusConcĭlium, Conventus, Synŏdus, Synŏdāle concĭliābŭlum,

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Ðú me oft aweredest wyrigra gemótes protexisti me a conventu malignantium, Ps. Th. 63, 2: Andr. Kmbl. 2120; An. 1061: Exon. 34 a; Th. 109, 31; Gú. 98.

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ge-samnian

(v.)
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Ꝥte hiá mið woere hire gisomnia ðú gimeodomiga ut eam cum uiro suo copulare digneris, Rtl. 108, 42. Ðá gesinhíwan . . . bióð gesomnode (conjuncti) ðæt . . . Past. 397, 9. <b>IV bb.

girnan

(v.)
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Ðú wást ꝥ . . . ic ealles for swíþe ne girnde þisse eorþlican ríces; búton ic wilnode andweorces . . . scis ipsa minimum nobis ambitionem mortalium rerum fuisse dominatam; sed materiam . . . optavimus, Bt. 17; F. 58, 25.