Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

wifel

(n.)
Grammar
wifel, wifer

an arrow ⬩ dart ⬩ javelin

Entry preview:

Parv. 526, and see note.]

stæf-wrítere

(n.)
Grammar
stæf-wrítere, es; m.

A writer about letters or grammar

Entry preview:

A writer about letters or grammar Stæfwríterum grammaticorum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 33 : 75, 40. The word glosses historiographus, 42, 45, but perhaps stær- should be read for stæf-: and 18, 67 stæfwríterum glosses caracteribus, which seems an error

ge-séman

Entry preview:

<b>II a.

blót-mónaþ

(n.)
Grammar
blót-mónaþ, es; m.

November, the month of sacrifice, so called because at this season the heathen Saxons made a provision for winter, and offered in sacrifice many of the animals they then killed. In an account of the Saxon months, it is thus described

Entry preview:

[blót a sacrifice, mónaþ month] November, the month of sacrifice, so called because at this season the heathen Saxons made a provision for winter, and offered in sacrifice many of the animals they then killed.

Linked entry: blód-mónaþ

for-cúþlíce

(adv.)

contemptibly ⬩ ignominiously ⬩ feebly ⬩ ignominiously

Entry preview:

Ox. 5044. in a way that expresses contempt, that inflicts disgrace, ignominiously 'Teóð þá cynegas út of þám scræfe, and gange þá yldostan tó and ofstæppað heora swuran swíðe mid fotum.'

ge-ter

(n.)
Entry preview:

Seó méting bið geteres ful and geflites and costunge, ne bið þæt gód swefen, E. S. 39, 347

máwan

Entry preview:

On hærfeste rípan, in Agusto and Septembri and Octobri máwan, Angl. ix. 261, 16. Add

ropp

(n.)
Grammar
ropp, es; m.

An intestine ⬩ the colon

Entry preview:

An intestine, the colon Rop colum vel intestinum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 60 : extale, 145, 29. Roop colus (in a list of parts of the body), i. 45, 20. Hrop colum, 19, 55. Be wambe coþum and tácnum on roppe and on smælþearmum, Lchdm. ii. 230, 16-18.

Linked entry: rop

ge-éfstan

Grammar
ge-éfstan, l. ge-efestan, ge-efstan,

to get by hastening ⬩ to strive after

Entry preview:

and add: to get by hastening Geonet oððe geefest preoccupetur (v. (?) Ald. 17, 37), Wrt.

dreám

Grammar
dreám, drém, drím.
Entry preview:

Dreámas armonias, i. sonos, An. Ox. 3053. Dreámas and tymende swégas iambicos et rotatiles trocheos, Germ. 403, 7. Þá eáran ásláwiað þe wǽron ful swifte tó gehýrenne fægere dreámas and sangas, Wlfst. 148, 3. v. ǽfen-, píp-, sang-, wóden-dreám

friclo

(n.)
Grammar
friclo, indecl. f.

An appetite ⬩ appĕtītus

Entry preview:

and greediness arise, L.

Linked entry: fricolo

mann-bryne

(n.)
Grammar
mann-bryne, es; m.

A fire in which men lose their lives

Entry preview:

A fire in which men lose their lives(?) Ðá wæs swíðe micel mancwealm, and se micela manbryne wæs on Lundene, and Paules mynster forbarn, Chr. 962; Erl. 120, 6.

Linked entry: mán-bryne

ge-mettan

(n.)
Entry preview:

One that eats with another, a guest, and add Maximus gelaðede for oft þone árwurðan wer . . . ꝥ hé wǽre his gemetta; þá forhæfde hé hine ǽfre fram his gebeórscipe, cwæð ꝥ hé ne mihte his gemetta beón þe ánne cásere ofslóh and óþerne áflýmde, Hml.

stelan

Entry preview:

Add

un-gewiss

Grammar
un-gewiss, ignorance.
Entry preview:

Rómáne swíþost for þǽm besierede wǽroi þe him þæt land uncúþre wæs þonne hit Somnitum wǽre, and on ungewis on án nirewett befóran, Ors. 3, 8; S. 120, 29. Add

hete-grim

(adj.)
Grammar
hete-grim, adj.

Of malignant cruelty or fierceness

Entry preview:

Of malignant cruelty or fierceness, Andr. Kmbl. 2789; An. 1397: 3122; An. 1564

oncýð-dǽd

(n.)
Grammar
oncýð-dǽd, e; f.

A deed causing distress, an injury

Entry preview:

A deed causing distress, an injury Oncýðdǽda wrecan, Andr. Kmbl. 2360; An. 1181

scyld-hete

(n.)
Grammar
scyld-hete, es; m.

An enemy ⬩ a foe

Entry preview:

An enemy, a foe Mid scyldhetum, werigum wróhtsmiðum, Andr. Kmbl. 170; An. 85

Linked entry: scyld-hata

ceáp-ealeðel

(n.)
Grammar
ceáp-ealeðel, -ealoþ,es; n.

an ale-house ⬩ taberna, popina, cervisiarium

Entry preview:

The ale-selling place, an ale-house; taberna, popina, cervisiarium Ne sceolon mæsse-preóstas æt ceáp-ealeðelum ne etan ne drincan mass-priests should not eat nor drink at ale-houses, L. E. I. 13; Th. ii. 410, 18

leóht-berende

(adj.)
Grammar
leóht-berende, adj.

Light-bearing ⬩ Lucifer ⬩ luminous

Entry preview:

Swylce án ofen eall smóciende and leóhtberende fýr férde ofer ða lác apparuit clibanus fumans et lampas ignis inter divisiones illas, Gen. 15, 17