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eald-land

(n.)
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eald-land, es; n.
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Old-land, land that has remained long untilled: (cf. old-land ground that has lain untilled a long time and is now ploughed up; arable land which has been laid down in grass more than two years. D.D.) Feówer æceras be-westan exan fornágeán Eádferðes

Eást-land

(n.)
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Substitute: <b>eást-land,</b> es; n. an eastern land; in pl. eastern lands, the East Hé cóm tó þám eástlande venit in terram orientalem, Gen. 29, 1. Hé monega anwealdas mid gewinnum geeóde on þǽm eástlondum plurima per orientem bella gessit

efen-lang

(adj.)
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efen-lang, adj.
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Equally long. of the same length, coextensive with, stretching all along Se milte bið emlang and gædertenge þǽre wambe, Lch. ii. 242, 15. Licgað wilde móras wið eástan emnlange þǽm býnum lande, Ors. 1, 1; S. 18, 28. as long (as broad). v. efen*-*brád

Linked entry: lang

ele-land

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ellen-lǽca

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Ellenlǽca (-e, MS.) agonteta( = agonotheta), Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 38. Ellenlǽca agontea, ii. 8, 11. For 'pugil . . . Cot. 15' substitute

fearn-lǽs

(n.)
Grammar
fearn-lǽs, gen. -lǽswe; f.
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A fern-pasture; the right to pasture swine in such a pasture Illam terram liberabo a pascua porcorum regis quod nominamus fearnlesuue, C. D. ii. 59, 19. v. Sax. Engl. ii. 87

Linked entry: fearn-edisc

feld-land

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opposed to wood-land Ðæs landes gemǽra ðe gebyriað intó ðǽre westmestan híde feldlondes and wudulandes, C. D. iii. 262, 19. Ðone þriddan æcer feldlandes and healfne ðone wudu, 4, 10. Add:

fen-land

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On þám fenlande synd feáwa weorcstána, Hml. S. 20, 77. Add

feorh-lást

(n.)
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a step stained by one's life-blood (?) Hé fǽge and geflýmed feorhlástas bær he (Grendel) death-doomed and fleeing dyed the earth with his life-blood, B. 846

feor-land

(n.)
Grammar
feor-land, -lond.
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Geácsode se foresprecena wræcca on feorlandum þæs hálgan weres forðfóre, Guth. 94, 2. Add:

fét-lást

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folc-land

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Gif se cyning mínum suna geunnan wille ðes folc-londes tó ðǽm bóclonde, ðonne habbe and brúce, C. D. ii. 120, 35. Cyninges folcland, 65, I. Add

freó-lǽta

(n.)
Grammar
freó-lǽta, (and -lǽte, an; f.?).
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Frióléta vernaculus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 35: libertus, 112, 80. Fríglǽta, 51, 2. Friólétan libertabus, 112, 72. Fríglǽtan, 51, 1. Add

for-lǽt

(n.)
Grammar
for-lǽt, (?), es; m.
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A going away Ferlét transitus, Ps. Spl. 143, 14

Linked entries: -læt fer-lét

Franc-land

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Ðeós wyrt byþ cenned in Gallia, ꝥ is on Franclande, Lch. i. 238, 13: Hml. Th. i. 560, 7: Hml. S. 28, 2: 26, 240. Add

ge-lǽt

Similar entry: wæter-gelǽt

ge-lagu

(n.)
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Substitute: <b>ge-læg,</b> es; n. A lay, layer, material spread out, a stretch of water Ofer holma gelagu, Seef. 64. [Cf. Icel. lag a layer.] Cf. licgan

ge-landa

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ge-landa, Take here <b>ge-londa</b> in Dict., and add
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Contribulus, i. ciues, consanguineus mǽg, gelanda, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 76. Fratres gebróþor, et aliquando gemǽgas, aliquando gelondan, quas Latin i paternitaies interpretantur, 39, 47. Fratres gebróþru vel gelo[n]dan vel siblingas, i. 52, 3

ge-lást

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Substitute: performance, act of performing Þæt hé ús þurh his gife gefultumige tó geláste his geboda, R. Ben. 5, 4. a performance, what is performed as an obligation, a vow. Cf. gelǽstan; 2 Þé bið ágolden gelást tibi reddetur uotum, Ps. Rdr. 64, 2:

ge-land

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