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middan-eard

(n.)
Grammar
middan-eard, es; m.

The middle dwellingthe abode of menthe earththe worldthe worldmankind

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Ðone eard Asiam, se ðe is geteald tó healfan dǽle middaneardes, Homl. Th. i. 68, 35. Eálá middaneard! eálá dæg leóhta! eálá upheofon! Cd. 216; Th. 275, 2; Sat. 165.

Linked entries: middan-geard mid-eard

ge-síþ

(n.)
Grammar
ge-síþ, es; m. [cf. ge-féra]

A companionfellowcompanion or follower of a chief or kingsociuscomes

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A companion, fellow, companion or follower of a chief or king; socius, comes Gif mon elþeódigne ofsleá gif he mǽgleás síe healf kynincg [áh] healf se gesíþ if one slay a foreigner, if he be kinless, half the king [has], half the companion, L.

Linked entries: ge-sóð ge-síþman

L

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So the West Saxon forms, healdan, sealt, healf, are found in the Northumbrian Gospels as halda, salt, half, and in Gothic, O. Sax., Icel., O. H. Ger. the vowel also is a.

streám

(n.)
Grammar
streám, es; m.
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Hát gefec-cean ongeán streáme healfne sester yrnendes wæteres, 12, l. Sing ðis on yrnendum wætere, and wend ðæt heáfod ongeán streám, 70, 8. Ondlang ðæs streámes . . . ondlang ðæs Doferdæles ongeán streám tó Wícforda, Cod. Dip, Kmbl. vi. 218, 29.

dígol-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
dígol-líce, díglíce.
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Add: Secretly, so as to take others unawares or at a disadvantage Hé gesette twá folc diégellíce on twá healfa his, Ors. 4, 6; S. 174, 32: 4, 10; S. 200, 13. He diégellíce for þǽm gewinne V geár scipa worhte, 2, 5; S. 78, 32.

toft

(n.)

a piece of ground, messuage, homesteada place marked out for a house or buildinga square piece of ground with walls but without roofan enclosed home-fieldcampusan elevated piece of grounda field where a house or building once stood.

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In the following passages it may mean the enclosed ground in which the house stood Healf ðæt land æt Súðhám, innur and úttur, on tofte and on crofte, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 317, 7. Nǽfre myntan ne plot ne plóh, ne turf ne toft, L.

ǽder

(n.)
Grammar
ǽder, ǽdder, e; f. ǽd(d)re, an; f. (wæter-ǽdre occurs once neuter). Add:to ǽdre:

a channel for fluidsa sinewa rein, kidney

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Ðá forcurfon hié him ðá twá ǽdran on twá healfa ðára eágena resectis palpebris, Ors. 4, 6; S. 178, 23. a rein, kidney Héðir renis, Txts. 93, 1731. Ǽddran renes, Wrt. Voc. i. 65, 25. Ǽdran (éðre, Ps. V.) Ps. Spl. 15, 7. Édran, Kent. Gl. 884.

Linked entry: héþir

for-sleán

cut throughto slaykillto destroylay wastefinishto routoverthrowto condemn

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Gif mon óðrum þá hond útan forsleá ... gif hió healf onweg fleóge, Ll. Th. i. 98, 7. Gif mon óðrum rib forsleá ... gif sió hýd sié tóbrocen, and mon bán of ádó, 11: 21. Hét se cásere him forsleán þone sweoran, Shrn. 145, 6.

gold

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Mid þridde healf hund mancusan goldes be gewihte, iii. 361, 24. Tó .viii. healfmarcum ásodenes goldes, Ll. Th. i. 154, 2. Twá and twéntig þúsend punda goldes and seolfres mon gesealde þám here wid friðe, 288, 12.

híwisc

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

a familyhouse

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On óðre healfe ánes híwisces, 435, 13. Ðis synt ðá landgemǽro ðæs híwisces æt Winterburnan ... 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.

módor

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Hé wæs Bryttisc on his móder healfe, Chr. 1075; P. 202, 7. Hí freónda ne róhton, ne fæder oððe méder (móder, v.l. ), Hml. S. 5, 45. For ðám mycclum geleáfan þǽre méder. Hml. Th. ii. 116, 13. Habban gýmene ǽgðer ge ðǽre méder ge þæs cildes, 196, 19.

mægen-þrymm

(n.)
Grammar
mægen-þrymm, es; m.

MajestygreatnessgloryChristgreat powermightan instance in which the divine glory or power is displayedthe glory of heavenheaventhe angels who inhabit heaven

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(using the attribute for the person), Christ Mægenþrym árás, sigefæst and snottor, Exon. 120 a; Th. 420, 25; Hö. 22. great power, might Gé geseóþ mannes Bearn sittende on ða swýðran healfe Godes mægenþrymmes videbitis filium hominis sedentem a dextris

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scíran

(v.)
Grammar
scíran, p. de.
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He hét wurpan ac hé ne scýrde on hwæðere healfe hí ðæt net wurpansceoldon he bade throw, but he did not decide on which side they were to throw the net, Homl.

be-sittan

(v.)
Grammar
be-sittan, to be-sittanne; p. -sæt, -sætt, pl. -sǽton; pp. -seten, [be by, near, sittan to sit].

to sit round, surround, beset, besiegecircumdare, cingere, obsidereto be in session, to hold sessionsto posessconsidere,possidere

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Hie hine besǽton on ǽlce healfe on ánum fæstenne they beset it [the army] on every side in a fastness, Chr. 894; Erl. 92, 23 : 918; Erl. 102, 35. He wæs beseten mid his feóndum on ðære byrig he was beset by his enemies in the city, Ps.

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sweotol

(adj.)
Grammar
sweotol, swutol, switol, swytol, sutol (-ul, -al, -el); adj.
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Seotol, 107, 42. of what may be clearly perceived by the senses, by sight Biþ mín swæð sweotol, sweart on óþre healfe, Exon. Th. 403, 19; Rä. 22, 10. Wiht sweotol and gesýne, 420, 13; Rä. 40, 3. Him on eaxle wearð syndolh sweotol, Beo.

ge-wundian

(v.)
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Þá burhmen ofslógon .xix. menn on óðre healfe, and gewundoden ꝥ hí nystan hú fela, 1048; P. 173, 5. Ðone geuundadon illum uulnerantes, Lk. L. R. 20, 12. Gif hé wígie and man gewundie, Ll. Th. i. 170, 9. Gewundige 202, 21: 404, 8.

pund

(n.)
Grammar
pund, es; n.
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(tó healfan punde, MS. G.), L. Edg. ii. 8 ; Th, i. 270, 3. of other money Ánum hé sealde fif pund ( talenta ), Mt. Kmbl. 25, 15, 16, 20, 22. Hé sealde týn pund ( mnas ), Lk. 19, 13. Týn þúsend punda decem millia talenta, Mt. Kmbl.18, 24.

Linked entries: mund-bryce borh-leás

scolu

(n.)
Grammar
scolu, scól (these two forms may give the later shoal, school as col, cól give coal, cool), e; f.
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Cildru on scole betǽcan, Lchdm. iii. 184, 27 : 188, 18. a band or troop of people, a shoal, school (in school of fishes) Him on healfa gehwone heofonengla þreát ymbútan faraþ, ælbeorhtra scolu, Exon. Th. 58, 2; Cri. 929.

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hláford

a rulersovereigngovernorcaptaina mastera major-domoan ownera proprietora husbandthe husbanda rulerlord

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Healf cyninge, healf biscepe and þǽre cirican hláforde þe þá nunnan áge, 66, 17. Wiib and cild ðǽm hláforde and hígum and ðǽre stówe befestan, C.D. i. 316, 10. Geunnan healfes Gode and sancte Petre and ðǽre cyrcean hláforde, v. 143, 2.

hínan

to humblehumiliatedegradeinsultto conquersubjecto oppressafflictto lay lowdestroyto lay wastedestroyto accuse

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Ðý lǽs hé his eáðmódnesse forleóse, geðence hé dæt hé bið self swíðe gelíc ðǽm ilcan monnum þe hé ǽr ðreátað and hiénð, Past. 116, 16. to treat with dishonour, degrade, insult Hé hié for þǽre gewilnunga swíþe bismrade, and bebeád ꝥ hié mon on ǽlce healfe

Linked entries: hýnan hénan hinend