greát
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On greátan þorn, v. 150, 8. Gif mon óðres wudu bærneð ... forgielde ǽlc greát treów mid .v. sciłł., Ll. Th. i. 70, 5. non-material things Of gealádle ... cymeþ great yfel; sió biþ ealra ádla rícust, Lch. ii. 106, 19
ge-windan
To twist ⬩ weave ⬩ bend ⬩ wind ⬩ torquĕre ⬩ plectere ⬩ implĭcāre ⬩ To go ⬩ turn ⬩ turn about ⬩ revolve ⬩ roll ⬩ se vertĕre ⬩ volvĕre
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To twist, weave, bend, wind; torquĕre, plectere, implĭcāre Ða þegnas gewundun ðæt sigbég of þornum milites plectentes coronam de spinis, Jn. Skt. Lind. 19. 2.
ófost
Haste, speed
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Þorh ófst per anticipationem Wrt. Voc. ii. 116, 77. Ófestum hastily Cd. Th. 140, 32; Gen. 2336. Ófestum miclum, 177, 15; Gen. 2930. Ófstum, 153, 8; Gen. 2535 : 161, 29; Gen. 2672
be-cirran
to turn round ⬩ about ⬩ to go round ⬩ pass by ⬩ avoid ⬩ to turn ⬩ pervert ⬩ seduce ⬩ to beguile ⬩ deceive ⬩ to get round a person
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Hii wolleþ us bicheorre (biwiȝelien, 1st MS.) þorh hire wise craftes, Laym. 969. Herkne nu, we nelleþ þe nouht bicherre, Misc. 46, 324
dragan
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Wildu hors hyne drógon on gorstas and on þornas, Shrn. 117, 13. Hí becnytton his swuran mid rápe and drógon (cf. tugon, 54) hine swá swá hí ǽr dydon, Hml. S. 15, 82. Drógun (trógun, R., cf. tróg, v. 11) segni trahentes rete, Jn. 21, 8.
stingan
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Gif þorn stinge man on fót, Lchdm. ii. 336, 20. Gif hine beón stingen, iii. 168, 13. Se lǽce his seax hwæt, ǽrðonðe hé stingan wille, Past. 26 ; Swt. 187, 6. Se cásere hine hét stingan mid írenum gyrdum, Shrn. 115, 24.
hrind
barky ⬩ rinded ⬩ caudex ⬩ codex ⬩ liber ⬩ cortex ⬩ frozen to death ⬩ to destroy ⬩ dead
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Thorpe translates barky, Kemble rinded, but in this case there should be no initial h. In Ælfc. Gl. 59; Som. 68, 5, 6; Wrt.
ge-hyld
Regard ⬩ observation ⬩ keeping ⬩ concealing ⬩ observantia ⬩ custodia
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Thorpe translates into heaven's vault, Grein has recessus, arcanum? Or could the word have the sense of space, cf. Ger. gehalt, gehaltig? Cf. also geheald subst. and adj. and gehild
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wilwan
to roll ⬩ fig. ⬩ to join ⬩ compound ⬩ compose
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Hé wylode hine sylfne on ðam þornum and netelum, Homl. Th. ii. 156, 28. Hé hét wilian tó ðam scræfe micele weorcstánas praecepit: 'Volvite saxa ingentia ad os speluncae,' Jos. 10, 18. Hé hí swá nacode hét wylian on ðam fýre. Homl.
á-lúcan
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Upp álocenum þornum spinis erutis, 103, 17. Hé wæs álocen ( evulsus est ) of ðǽre wununge his líchoman, 326, 14. Se wyrtruma of his heortan biþ álocen and onweg ánumen, Bl. H. 55, 9. Add
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breóst
the chest ⬩ thorax ⬩ the stomach ⬩ womb ⬩ a breast ⬩ mamma ⬩ mamilla
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D. 19, 12. the chest, thorax Breóst thorax, Wrt. Voc. i. 65, 6 ; 283, 27 : pectus, 28. On iugoðe bið se líchama þeónde on strangum breóste, Hml. Th. i. 614, 11. the stomach, womb Breóst crassum (ventrem, v. l.), Lch. i. lxx, i.
heals-fang
'The sum every man sentenced to the pillory would have had to pay to save him from that punishment had it been in use.' ⬩ embracing ⬩ to embrace
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A term occurring in the laws which Thorpe thus defines: 'The sum every man sentenced to the pillory would have had to pay to save him from that punishment had it been in use.'
D
to cut
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provided with that which is expressed by the root, and is usually considered as a participle, although no verb may exist to which it can be assigned; such words have, therefore, generally ge prefixed to them; as gehyrned horned; gesceód shod, Rask's Gr. by Thorpe
on-tendness
a burning, fire ⬩ fire, that which kindles passion ⬩ passion, vehement desire ⬩ burning sensation, inflammation
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Ic on ðé ádwesce ealle ontendnysse, 4, 171. burning sensation, inflammation He unscrýdde hine ealne, and wylode hine sylfne on ðám þiccum bremlum and þornum and netelum ... and swá þurh ðære hýde wunda ádwæscte his módes wunda; for ðan ðe hé áwende ðone
Linked entries: -tendness on-tyndness
ge-wuna
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., cf. 16, where Thorpe prints gewuna) wǽron, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 61, 31. <b>I a.</b> accustomed to, with dat. or dat. infin. :-- Sincalda sǽ . . . æflástum gewuna, Exod. 473.
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bærnan
to expose to the action of heat ⬩ to cauterize ⬩ to cause to give light ⬩ to consume by fire
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Swá þú bærne þornas fýre, Ps. Th. 117, 12. Hé ongan bærnan sum deófolgild, Bl. H. 221, 6: B. 2313: Dan. 242. Mul wærð on Cent bærned, Chr. 687; P. 39, 34
birnan
To burn ⬩ ardent ⬩ vehement
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Hé barn (from the action of thorns and nettles ) útan, Gr. D. 101, 24. Swá benne ne burnon, Lch. ii. 350, 29. to have ardent, vehement feeling Hé unálýfedlíce barn iunan, Gr. D. 101, 26.
leód
A people ⬩ nation ⬩ race ⬩ country
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Ðone Denisca leóda lufiaþ swýðost him [Thor] the Scandinavian peoples love most, Wulfst. 106, 23. Beneuentius and Sepontanus hátton ða twá leóde Benevento and Sepontus were the two places called, Blickl. HomI. 201, 22.
ge-lustfulling
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Hé forhæfde hine sylfne fram gelustfullunge þysses lífes, Shrn. 12, 22. pleasure as a personification Seó gelustfullung ( voluptas ) gewundedum fótum þurh þá þornas fleáh, Prud. 53. that which produces pleasure, an object or source of delight, a delight
án-lípig
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Oð ðone ánlípigan þorn . . . On ðone ánlípian stán, C. D. iii. 467, 7, 8. Mín swustur lét mé ǽnlípie (solam) þénian, Lk. 10, 40. Ne sculon mæssepreóstas ǽnlípie bútan óðrum mannum mæssan syngan, Ll. Th. ii. 406, 21.