a-þweán
To wash out ⬩ to wash ⬩ cleanse ⬩ baptize ⬩ anoint ⬩ abluere ⬩ lucre ⬩ lavare ⬩ baptizare ⬩ unguere
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Ðæt híg aþwegene wǽren ut baptizarentur, Lk. Bos. 3, 12. Aþwóg unxit, Jn. Lind. War. 12, 3
ceápian
To bargain, chaffer, trade, to contract for the purchase or sale of a thing, to buy, to bribe ⬩ negotiari, emere, comparāre
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He adráf út ealle ða ðe ceápodon innan ðam temple ejiciebat omnes ementes et vendentes in templo, Mt. Bos. 21, 12. Gyfum ceápian to bribe with gifts, Cd. 212; Th. 262, 5; Dan. 739.
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EÓTEN
giant, monster, Grendel ⬩ gĭgas, monstrum, Grendel ⬩ the Jutes, Jutlanders, the ancient inhabitants of Jutland in the north of Denmark ⬩ Jūtæ
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Eotenas, gen. a; dat. um; pl. m. the Jutes, Jutlanders, the ancient inhabitants of Jutland in the north of Denmark; Jūtæ Eótena treówe the faith of the Jutes, Beo.Th. 2148; 6. 1072: 2180; B. 1088: 2286; 3. 1141: 2294; B. 1145
Linked entry: GEÁTAS
full-fremman
To do fully ⬩ fulfil ⬩ finish ⬩ perfect ⬩ practise ⬩ perfĭcĕre ⬩ perăgĕre ⬩ patrāre
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Ðæt ic fallfremme his weorc ut perfĭciam ŏpus ejus, Jn. Bos. 4, 34. Ðæt he hí eft fullfremme that he practise them [the vices] again, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 170, 18. Swá eówer heofonlíca fæder is fullfremed sīcut păter vester cœlestis perfectus est, Mt.
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gærs-stapa
A GRASS-STEPPER ⬩ locust ⬩ lŏcusta
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Lamb. 77, 46, Gærstapan cómon and frǽton ealle ða gærscíþas locusts came and ate up all the blades of grass, Ors. 1, 7; Bos. 29, 42 : Homl. Th. ii. 192. 35.
gál
Light ⬩ pleasant ⬩ wanton ⬩ licentious ⬩ wicked ⬩ lĕvis ⬩ libīdĭnōsus ⬩ luxŭriōsus ⬩ mălus
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Ðæt he gesáwe ungelíce béc him berende beón þurh ða gódan gástas oððe þurh ða gálan ut cōdĭces diversos per bŏnos sīve mălos spīrĭtus sĭbi vīdĕrit offerri, Bd. 5, 13; S. 633, 25.
lacu
A pool ⬩ pond ⬩ lake
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A pool, pond, piece of water, lake Óþ ðæt seó lacu út scýt—cðæt norþ andlang lace to the point where the water runs out of the lake ... then along the lake, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 250, 26.
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mán-dǽd
An evil deed ⬩ crime ⬩ sin
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Ðá ðá hé ða módigan preóstas for heora mándǽdon ðanan út ádréfde and ðérinne munecas gelógode, Chart. Th. 227, 21. Wolde mid mándǽdum menn beswícan, Cd. 23; Th. 29, 16; Gen. 451
nám
Seizure of property belonging to one which is in the hands of another
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Ne nime nán man náne náme, ne innan scíre ne út of scíre, ǽr man hæbbe þríwa on hundrede his rihtes gebeden; (but on the failure of legal means ) nime ðonne leáfe ðæt hé móte hentan æfter his ágenan, L. C. S. 19; Th. i. 386, 9-17. Cf.
nídþearfness
necessity ⬩ compulsion ⬩ necessity ⬩ need ⬩ need ⬩ trouble ⬩ distress
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S. 502, 27. necessity, need (for something) Mycel nýdþearfnys is ðæt ðæt gesceád ... necessaria est magna discretio, 1, 27; S. 497, 17. need, trouble, distress Wæs biddende ðætte hé on swá mycelre neódþearfnysse his bigengum gehulpe deprecatus est ut
óþ-bregdan
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Hé (Nero when Rome was burning bebeád his ágnum monnum ðæt hié gegripen ðæs licgendan feós swá hié mǽst mehten, and tó him brohten, ðonne hit mon út óþbrúde, Ors. 6, 5; Swt. 260, 32. Siððan wearþ Adame eardríca cyst óþbróden, Exon.
stelan
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Þeóf ne cymþ búton ðæt hé stele fur non uenit nisi ut furetur, Jn. Skt. 10, 10. Gif frigman cyninge stele, L. Ethb. 4; Th. i. 4, 3
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swógan
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Ðǽm swógendum, hleóðregendum argutis, 5, 36: 86, 74. fig. to move with violence, enter with force, invade. v. in-swógenness Ðæt nǽnig bisceop óþres bisceopscíre on swóge ut nullus episcoporum parochiam alterius invadat, Bd. 4, 5; S. 572, 32
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swangor
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Heavy in movement of the body or mind, slow, slothful, sluggish, indolent, physically Nis hé (the Phenix) swár ne swongor swá sume fuglas ða ðe late þurh lyft lácaþ fiþrum ac hé is snel and swift non est tarda, ut volucres quae corpore magno incessus
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bledu
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Blede tácen is þæt þú árǽre úp þíne swýþran hand, Tech. ii. 125, 9. Man bær þám cásere wín on ánre blede. Hml. S. 31, 631. Hrer on blede, Lch. ii. 314, 3 : 308, 29. Drince hé góde blede fulle, 118, 24. Hæbbe hé blede fulle hwéges, Ll.
cyrten
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Add: comely in person Se seofoða heáfodleahter is geháten ídel wuldor . . . þonne se man gewilnað þæt hé sý cyrten, and nele foresceáwian þæt úre líchaman beóð áwende tó duste, Hml. Th. ii. 220, 29. Heó ( Esther ) wæs on wæstme cyrten, Hml.
dǽd
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Mid dǽdum gelǽstan to carry into effect, Ors. 2, 4; S. 72, 34: 76, 25. v. ælmes-, forþ-, fracod-, lác-, sceaþ-, un-, unriht-, weorc-, weorold-, wil-, wóh-, wundor-dǽd. Add
ge-mynegian
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Tó þan ꝥ wé beón gemyngode (-myngode, v.l. ) ꝥ wé úre mód on ǽlcere gedréfednysse tó Gode áwendon, Angl. vii. 38, 358
ge-wlitegian
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Ðæt tácnað ðætte eal ðá gód and ðá mægenu beón gewlitegode mid ðǽre lufan Godes and monna ut omnia virtutum bona ex caritate decorentur, Past. 87, 4
on-standan
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Th. ii. 418, 14. to persist, continue Þæt; mînes worldlîfes bletsung anstande ut mundanae meae vitae benedictio permaneat, Ll. Th. ii. 228, 4. Mid onstandendum geswince instanti labore, Scint. 111, 14. <b>IIa.
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