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þífþ

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Add Godes feós ðeófð sacrilegium, Wülck. Gl. 116, 28. Wǽron in gangende þeófas in þone wyrtgeard, ac onwendum heora móde fram þǽre þýfðe (þeóf(e)tte, v.l.) ... hí ádelfon ...

sǽ-genga

(n.)
Grammar
sǽ-genga, an; m.

a sea-goer, a marinera vessel, ship

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a sea-goer, a mariner Ða gleáwe sǽgenga (gleáwan sǽgengan ?)

Linked entry: sǽ-líðend

FEL

(n.)
Grammar
FEL, FELL, es; n.

skinhidepelliscŏriumcŭtis

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Ðæs cealfes flǽsc and fell and gór ðú bærnst úte búton fyrdwícon carnes vĭtŭli et cŏrium et fĭmum combūres fŏris extra castra, Ex. 29, 14. Fell hongedon on seles wæge the skins hung on the wall of the room, Exon. 104 a; Th. 394, 15; Rä. 14, 3.

Linked entry: fell

FELA

(num.; adj.)
Grammar
FELA, fæla, feala, feola; adj. indecl.

Manymuchmultummultamany thingsmuchverymultamultumin primiscum maxĭmeso many ... astot ... quot

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Náh ic fela goldes I have not much gold; multum auri, Exon. 119 b; Th. 458, 14; Hy. 4, 100. Fela sceal gebídan leófes and láþes much shall abide of loved and loathed, Beo. Th. 2125; B. 1060.

lǽððu

(n.)
Grammar
lǽððu, e; lǽððo; indecl.; f.

An injuryoffencehatredenmitymalice

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Ðæt hié ongieten ðæt ðæt sindon ða forman lǽððo ðe hié Gode gedoon mǽgen ut noverint, quod hanc primam injuriam faciunt Deo, Past. 45, 2; Swt. 339, 7.

langung

(n.)
Grammar
langung, e; f.

Longingdesireweariness

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Longing, desire, weariness or grief that comes from unsatisfied desire Hié langung beswác eorþan dreámas éces rǽdes the longing for the joys of earth cheated them of eternal good, Cd. 173; Th. 217, 28; Dan. 29.

láreów

(n.)
Grammar
láreów, es; m.

A teachermasterpreacher

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On ðære heó mihte Gode willsumra wífmonna láreów and féstermódur gestandan in quo ipsa Deo devotarum mater ac nutrix possit existere feminarum, 4, 6; S. 574, 17.

lof

(n.)
Grammar
lof, es; n. m.

Praisegloryhymn

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Eall folc Gode lof sealde, Lk. Skt. 18, 43. Wé herigaþ hira cræftas and ðeáh nyllaþ hí habban forðæm wé hiera nabbaþ nán lof we praise their arts, and yet do not wish to have them, for we get no credit from them, Past. 34, 2; Swt. 231, 8.

folc-riht

(n.)
Grammar
folc-riht, -ryht, es; n.

Folkrightcommon lawpublic rightthe understood compact by which every freeman enjoys his rights as a freemanpublícum juscommūneτὸ κοινόν

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him man rihte dómas déme let God's right be exalted; and henceforth let every man, both poor and rich, be worthy of folk-right, and let a man have right dooms judged to him, L.

Linked entries: folc-geriht leód-riht

stǽnen

(adj.)
Grammar
stǽnen, (in the oblique cases the -en is sometimes contracted or absorbed; see below, and for other instances see under stapol); adj.
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Gl. 449, 26. metaph. of stone, stony, hard as stone, in a good sense Ic ðé secge, ðæt ðú ( Peter ) eart stǽnen, and ofer ðysne stán ic timbrige míne cyrcan, Homl. Th. i. 364, 23. in a bad sense Hié, wǽron stǽnenre heortan and blindre, Blickl.

ge-hát

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</b> what is promised, a promised good :-- Ic sendo gihát (promissum ) fædres mínes in iówih, Lk. R. 24, 49.

Linked entry: hát

ge-nyhtsum

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Wæs gold swá genihtsum and seolfor swá stánas ofer eorðan, Angl. xi. 8, 27. Syb genihtsum abundantia pacis, Ps. Th. 71, 7. [Genihtsum affatim, Wrt. Voc. ii. 2, 25. v. ge-nyhtsumlíce.] Genihsumre wennę opulenti luxus, An. Ox. 11, 44.

ge-sceótan

(v.)
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Ox. 4240. to assign to a position, allot to a place Þás Godes ðegnas þe . . . sind godas getealde, hwider gescýt [man] heora endebyrdnesse (to which band is their order assigned), búton tó ðám werode ðe sind hláfordscipas gecwedene?. Hml.

ge-tynge

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., and add: I. in a good sense Getinge dissertas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 28, 24. of persons, skilful with the tongue, elegant in speech, eloquent, witty Getincge facetus i. facundus (poeta ), An. Ox. 13.

sóna

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Hine nǽnig mann mihte gebindan, ac sóna instæpe ( continuo ) þá bendas tóslupan, Bd. 4, 22; Sch. 457, 15. followed by eft, efter Hér Rómáne þǽm pápan, his tungon forcurfon and his eágan ástungon . . . and þá sóna eft Gode fultomiendum hé meahte geseón

HORD

(n.)
Grammar
HORD, es; n. m.

HOARD, treasuren. thesaurus

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Hordas, gerýne arcana, Mone B. 4216 Similar entries (v. gold-hord)

Linked entries: hord-cófa hord-loca

ge-cweþan

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Hé ne móste gecweþan: 'Miltsa mé, God,' Bl. H. 43, 31. with a clause, v. <b>II a</b> Þá gecwæð se abbod and ealle þá gebróðra þæt þér ne mihte ná má muneca wunian, Hml. S. 6, 265. Is gecweden ꝥ hié ealle on yppan wunedon, Bl.

Linked entry: ge-cwidrǽden

bísen

(n.)
Grammar
bísen, l. bisen, e; bisene, an; f. (also n. in North.),

an exemplar a modelpatternexampleprecedenta ruleprescriptpreceptparablesimilitudetype

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Góde bisene, 191, 5. Hálgawara ðínra biseno (exempla), Rtl. 49, 11.

þing

(n.)
Grammar
þing, es; n.
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Voc. ii. 130, 12. (10) an object, a purpose :-- Gode wé cyrican betǽcaþ tó ðám þingum, ðæt cristene men ðǽrtó faran magan and ðǽr heora neóda tó Gode mǽnan and synna forgifenesse biddan, Wulfst. 278, 19.

wang

(n.)
Grammar
wang, es; m. . I. the word, which is almost confined to poetry, may be rendered by words denoting the surface of the ground taken in their most general sense,
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Dæg se georstenlíca God besceáwede on wangum dies hesterna Deum conspexit in arvis, Hymn. Surt. 47, 10. On sumeres tíd stincaþ on stówum, wynnum æfter wongum wyrta geblówene, Exon. Th. 178, 24; Gú. 1249.

Linked entries: ge-wenge wencge wenge