druh
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Th. 368, 5) ... eorðan fúlnes eal forwisnad, lámes gelícnes' fiercely the spirit speaks to the dust of the body, 'Ah! wretched quintessence of dryness, earth's mud with the moisture dried out of it, clay's very image, Seel. 17
frum-meolc
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Substitute: Milk fresh from the cow (?)
wǽr-leás
Faithless, false
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Wǽrleás werod ( the fallen angels ), Cd. Th. 5, 5; Gen. 67. Wǽrleásra weorud ( the wicked at the day of judgement), Exon. Th. 98, 27; Cri. 1614: (the cannibal Mermedonians), Andr. Kmbl. 2139; An. 1071
breóst-wylm
The fountain of the breast, a breast, teat, emotion of the breast, grief; ⬩ pectoris fons, uber, pectoris æstuatio, ærumna
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The fountain of the breast, a breast, teat, emotion of the breast, grief; pectoris fons, uber, pectoris æstuatio, ærumna Ðu eart hiht min fram breóstwylmum módor mínre tu es spes mea ab uberibus matris meæ, Ps. Spl. 21, 8.
croft
A CROFT ⬩ a small inclosed field ⬩ prædiolum ⬩ agellulus septus
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A CROFT, a small inclosed field; prædiolum, agellulus septus Æt ðæs croftes heáfod at the top of the croft Cod. Dipl. 553; A. D. 969; Kmbl. iii. 37, 23. In ðone croft, of ðæm crofte to the croft, from the croft 681; A.
Linked entries: bere-croft hwǽte-croft
on-gecígung
Invocation
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Invocation Þerh ongiceiging per invocationem, Rtl. 99, 28
ofer
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) þé, Gr.
bán-fæt
The bone vessel ⬩ the body ⬩ ossium vas ⬩ corpus
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The bone vessel, the body; ossium vas, corpus, Exon. 59a; Th. 213, 23; Ph. 229
Linked entry: fæt
biscop-hád
the office or state of a bishop, the episcopate
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the office or state of a bishop, the episcopate, Cot. 86: Ps. Spl. 108, 7
rǽfan
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Dele the passage given; the reading is gerǽpte. v. Bt. S. 112, 1, and add
sceáwend-sprǽc
Buffoonery,
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Buffoonery, the speech of the theatre Sceáwendsprǽc scurrilitas (scarilitas, MS.), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 65
Linked entries: sceáwend-wíse sceáwere
will-flód
The waters of the deluge
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The waters of the deluge Willflód ongan lytli-gan, Cd. Th. 85, lo; Gen. 1412
clife
the greater burdock ⬩ arctium lappa ⬩ the small burdock
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the greater burdock; arctium lappa Dó clifan use burdock, L. M. 1, 67; Lchdm. ii. 142, 16. the small burdock Seó smæle clife the small burdock, CLIVERS; galium aparine, L. M. 1, 50; Lchdm. ii. 124, 2
Linked entry: cliþe
in-smoh
A slough
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A slough Hé ágeaf ðone clǽnan gást and ðæs líchaman insmoh [exuvias] forlét monnum tó mundbyrde he gave up the clean spirit, and left the slough of the body as a protection for men, Shrn. 126, 2
Linked entry: ǽ-smogu
bonnan
To summon, call together ⬩ citare, convocare
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To summon, call together; citare, convocare Sió býman stefen and se beorhta segn bonnaþ sáwla gehwylce the voice of the trumpet and the bright sign shall summon every soul, Exon. 23 b; Th. 66, 6; Cri. 1067
þridding
The doing of a thing for the third time
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The doing of a thing for the third time (? Halliwell gives thirding with this meaning as a Suffolk word) Ðirding (but the word has been altered to ðirde. v. Skeat's collation) scipdrincende tertio naufragantem, Rtl. 61, 31
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hand-sció
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The word is dative of a proper name, which may be seen in the place-name of the following passage: In loco qui dicitur Andscóheshám, C. D. i. 102, 9. Graff vi. 418 8
grimena
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The passage is Kymð gerstæpæ and grimenæ þus ne wes rím venit locusta et bruchus cuius non erat numerus. Grímenæ seems a pl. gen. of the preceding word, governed by rím, but the meaning is not clear
heofon-beácen
the sun
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Napier makes the very probable suggestion that ll. 86-107 and ll. 108-124 in the Exodous should be transposed. If this be accepted heofon-beácen would be the sun
heaðu
war
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The word is found in proper names in Icelandic, e.g. Höð the name of a Valkyria, Höðbroddr, Höðr the slayer of Baldr; and in O. H. Ger. e.g. Hadu-praht