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búgan

(v.)
Grammar
búgan, p. ede; v. a. acc.

To inhabitinhabitare, incolere

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Ðǽr men búgaþ eard where men inhabit not a home, 58a; Th. 208, 18; Ph. 157. Búgede habitatvit, Aldh. Gl. Grn

Linked entries: a-búgan búgende

ge-andwerdian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-andwerdian, Add: -weardian
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Hé . . . hine sylfne beheáfdodne æfter ðon ðridan dæge eft geondweardode (-ne, MS.), 181, 2. Þá þá hé wæs geondweardod and gecýðed Benedicte praesentatus Benedicto, Gr. D. 129, 20 note. Swylce hé tó þám egefullan Godes dóme geandweardod (-werded, R.

Linked entry: ge-andweard

hosp-sprǽc

(n.)
Grammar
hosp-sprǽc, e; f.

Contemptuous, insulting language

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with perverse people, and their contemptuous language did not vex him, but he cheerfully bore with it, though he was reviled, Homl.

sliccan

(v.)
Grammar
sliccan, (?)

to strike, slap

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, and hé dead ne biþ . . . hé biþ unscildig, ðe hine slóh 21, 18-19. Gif hwilc slicþ eacniende wíf 21, 22. (cf. colloquial lick = to beat. Halliwell gives slick as an Oxfordshire word for a blow, slap)

Linked entry: slic

á-solcennys

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ne wandiað tó licgenne on stuntnysse heora ásolcennysse, Hml. Th. ii. 554, 3. Þæt ðú mid þínre hýrsumnesse geswince tó Gode gecyrre þe þú ǽr fram buge mid ásolcennysse (per desidiam) ðínre unhýrsumnesse, R. Ben. 1, 5.

weaxan

(v.)
Grammar
weaxan, weacsan, weahsan, weahxan, wexan, wehsan; ic weaxe; ðú wyxt; hé weaxeþ, weaxþ, weaxt, waexit, weaxst, wexeþ, wexþ, wixt, wihst, wihxþ, wyxþ, wyxt, wyxst, wycxþ; p. weóx, weócs, weóhs, pl. weóxon, weóhson, weóxson ; pp. weaxen

To wax, grow.to grow, be produced,to grow, grow upto grow, increase, wax to grow in honour, grow great, flourish, prosper to be productiveto grow, take shape

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Ne tǽce wé ðæt hé leahtras fyrðrige and weaxan (wehsan, v.l.) lǽte, ac ðæt hé hý simle wanige non dicimus, ut permittat nutriri vitia sed ea amputet, R. Ben. 121, 8. Gif sió ádl sié git weaxende, Lchdm. ii. 218, 1. Weaxende spéd, Cd.

ge-swinc

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Ic nátnyt ic beó, bútan þæt ic mín geswinc ámirre, Ors. 4, 13; S. 212, 26. ꝥ is sió án ræst eallra firra geswinca haec requies laborum, Bt. 34, 8; F. 144, 27.

weorþan

(v.)
Grammar
weorþan, (wurþan, wyrþan); p. wearþ, pl. wurdon; pp. worden.
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Ðæt ne loc of heáfde tó forlore wurde that not a hair from the head should come to destruction, Andr.

wís-dóm

(n.)
Grammar
wís-dóm, es; m.

wisdomdiscretionknowledge cognizancewisdom knowledge learning philosophy

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Ðæt se sáwle weard lífes wísdóm forloren hæbbe, se ðe ne giémeþ hwæþer his gǽst sié earm þe eádig, Exon. Th. 95, 4; Cri. 1552.

háwian

(v.)
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Ac manige sáwle háwiað mid ðám, and þeáh ne geseóð ꝥ ꝥ hí wilniað ( non sequitur ut omnis qui aspicit videat ), Solil.

hí-réd

(n.)
Grammar
hí-réd, hírd, es; m.

A household,house, family, the body of domestic retainers of a great man or king, a court, the members of a religious house, a company, band of associates

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Lucinius bebeád ðæt nán cristen mon ne cóme on his hieréde Licinius omnes Christianos e palatio suo jussit expelli, Ors. 6, 30; Swt. 282, 28.

Linked entry: hý-réd

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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Is ðæt æþele lond blóstmum geblówen, beorgas ðár ne muntas steápe ne standaþ . . . ne dene ne dalu illic planicies tractus diffundit apertos, nec tumulus crescit, nec cava vallis hiat, Exon. Th. 199, 2; Ph. 19.

Linked entries: ge-wenge wencge wenge

lǽdan

(v.)
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Þá náwþer ne hine þá hám lǽdan ne dorston þe hiene þider lǽddon, ne his þá onfón þe hiene mon tó brohte, Ors. 5, 2 ; S. 218, 34: Chr. 796; P. 56, 9: Gen. 2016. Lǽddon þá leóde láðne gewinnan tó carcerne, An. 1251. Lǽde hine tó Róme, Ll.

irfe

(n.)
Grammar
irfe, ierfe, yrfe, es; n.

Inheritanceproperty

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Nelle ic from mínum hláforde ne from mínum wífe ne from mínum bearne ne from mínum ierfe I will not go from my lord, nor from my wife, nor from my child, nor from my goods, L. Alf. 11; Th. i. 46, 9.

weorþung

(n.)
Grammar
weorþung, e ; f.
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Ne dear man forhealdan lytel ne mycel ðæs ðe gelagod is tó gedwolgoda weorðunge, Wulfst. 157, 14. Drihtne tó wurðunga, Lev. 2, 2. Ídola wurðinge, L. N. P.

cúþ

(adj.; part.)
Grammar
cúþ, comp.ra; sup. ost, est ; adj. [cúþ known, pp. of cunnan] .

known, clear, plain, evident, manifest notus, cognĭtus, manifestus known, well known, sure, safe, noted, known as excellent, famed, celebratednotus, certus, præstans, egregius familiar, intimate, related, friendlynotus, familiāris, amīcus, benevŏlus

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Ne sint me winas cúþe eorlas elþeódige the strange men are no affable friends to me, Andr. Kmbl. 396; An. 198. Feor ðú me dydest freóndas cúþe longe fecisti notos meos a me, Ps. Th. 87, 8. Míne cúþe notos meos, 87, 18: 54, 13: 131, 18

CYFES

(n.)
Grammar
CYFES, cyfys, cifes, ciefes,e; f: cyfese, an; f.

A concubine, handmaidconcubina, pellex, ancilla

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A. ceafese; B. cefese] ne dó him nán preóst nán ðara gerihta, ðe man cristenum men dón sceal he who has a right wife, and also a concubine, let no priest do for him any of those rites, which ought to be done for a christian man, L. C.

hwæt

(adj.; int.; pronoun.)
Grammar
hwæt, neut. of hwá, used as an adv. or interj.

Whywhat!ah!

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Hwæt ðú eart se sylfa God ðe ús ádrife fram dóme nonne tu Deus qui repulisti nos? Ps. Th. 107, 10. Hwæt wé gehýraþ ah! now we learn, Cd. 45; Th. 57, 36; Gen. 939. Hwæt wé gefrunon twelfe tíreádige hæleþ lo!

raðe

(adv.)
Grammar
raðe, (aspirated and unaspirated forms occur, and each can alliterate; the two forms are given separately. v. hraðe); adv.
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Ne þincþ eów ðý raðor ( none the sooner ) heora genóh, Bt. 13; Fox 38, 31 : 30, 1; Fox 108, 9. Nán man hit náh tó geáhnianne raðost þinga ( at the earliest ), ǽr syx mónþum æfter ðam ðe hit forstolen wæs, L. C. S. 24; Th. i. 390, 13.

ge-leáfa

(n.)
Grammar
ge-leáfa, an; m. [leáfa belief]

Belieffaithconfidencetrustfĭdesfĭdūcia

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we wyllaþ secgan eów ðone geleáfan ðe on ðam crédan stent we will now declare to you the faith which stands in the creed, Homl. Th. i. 274, 23 : 292, 9, 10 : 294, 8. Habbaþ geleáfan habēte fĭdūciam, Mt. Bos. 14, 27.