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port

(n.)
Grammar
port, es; m. n.
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Est et statio conclusa et munita,' Du Cange. Cf. Port- in place-names, e.g. Port-strǽt, Cod. Dip. Kmbl]. vi. 323.]

Linked entry: Portes-múþa

bodian

(v.)
Grammar
bodian, bodigan, bodigean; part. bodiende, bodigende; p. ode, ede, ade, ude; pp. od, ed, ad, ud; v. a. [bod a message] .

to tell, announce, proclaim, preachnuntiare, annuntiare, enuntiare, narrare, prædicare, evangelizareto foretell, predict, prophesy, promiseprædicere, promittereto announce

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Ðæt ic bodige oððe ðæt ic cýðe ealle herunga oððe lofunga ðíne on geatum déhter oððe dóhtra ðæs múntes [Siones] ut annuntiem omnes laudationes tuas in portis filiæ Sion, Ps. Lamb. 9, 15: Exon. 103 a; Th. 391, 3; Rä. 9, 10.

Linked entries: bodiend-lic bodigean

wunung

(n.)
Grammar
wunung, e; f.

dwellinglivinga dwellinghabitationplace to live inbeingexistenceliving

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On muntum and on feldlícum wunungum, Jos. 10, 40. Ðú wircst wununge (mansiunculas) binnan ðam arce, Gen. 6, 14. Gé begeáton eów ðeósterfulle wununga, Homl. Th. i. 68, 5. Geleáffulle menn gearwiaþ clǽne wununga on heora heortum Criste sylfum, Blickl.

Linked entry: wunian

ealdor-dóm

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Mk. p. 4, 8. of things Swylce eác be ðám heán muntum and dúnum, þá þe heáh standað ofer ealne middaneard, þá hwæðere wíte habbað þæs ealdordómes, þæt heó beóð genehhe mid heofonfýre geþreáde, Wlfst. 262, 14.

preóst

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Th. i. 84, 6-10. where preóst is in contrast with munuc Godes þeówas, biscopas and abbudas, munecas and mynecena, preóstas and nunnan, Ll. Th. i. 304, 26.

sceótan

(v.)
Grammar
sceótan, p. sceát, pl. scuton, sceoton ; pp. scoten.
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Ðæt wǽre swíðe gilplíc dǽd, gif Grist scute ðá ádún, i. 170, 1, 21. of inanimate things On ða burnan ðe of ðam munt scýtt in torrentem, qui de monte descendit, Deut. 9, 21.

Linked entries: fore fore-scét

ýtera

(adj.)
Grammar
ýtera, cpve.: ýtemest; spve. adj.
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Bind his ýtmestan limo mid byndellum, Lchdm. ii. 196, 12. marking order or degree, later, lower; last, lowest Gif munuc hine sylfne ýttran ( inferiorem ) and unweorðran talaþ þonne ǽnigne óþerne, R. Ben. 29, 11.

Linked entry: ýtmest

be-witan

watch over

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Se munuc þe þæs mynstres geat bewiste, 23 b, 66. Hé ungeorne bewiste hwæt he dyde he managed his business carelessly. Bl. H. 183, 23. Hí gesettan him x consulas, tó þon ꝥ hié hiera ǽ bewisten (constituendarum legum gratia), Ors. 2, 6; S. 88, 19.

Linked entry: be-witian

ge-búgan

(v.)
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þearfum forwyrndon þæt hí under eówrum þæce mósten in gebúgan, Cri. 1505. of things Þý lǽs se áttres ord in gebúge under bánlocan, Cri. 768. (2 a) of withdrawal, retirement, voluntary or enforced :-- Hé gebeáh binnan twám geárum tó þám ylcan mynstre and munuc

ge-féran

(v.)
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Th. 118, 59, to depart this life, die Þá þe of middangearde wǽron tó geféranne (geleóranne, v.l. ) . . . heó geférde (geleórde, v.l.) qui de mundo essent rapiendi, . . . transierat.

FÓT

(n.)
Grammar
FÓT, nom. acc: gen. fótes; dat. fét, fóte; pl. nom. acc. fét, fótas; gen. fóta; dat. inst. fótum; m.

a FOOTpésthe footpēs

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Nigon fóta, and ix scæfta munda, and ix bere-corna nine feet and nine half feet, and nine barley-corns or three inches, L. Ath. iv. 5; Th. i. 224, 9

freó-dóm

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eardes tó freódóme intó ðám mynstre she bought of him his share of the district and enfranchised it, and granted it to the monastery, Lch. iii. 432, 4. (8 a) the charter granting freehold land :-- Ðes friódóm waes bigeten aet Wígláfe cyninge (cf. hoc munus

ge-bígan

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Gebíged curva, 23, 47. to cause to move from a position or direction þá þóhton hié hió sceoldon of þám muntum hié gebígan mid hiora flána gescotum, Ors. 6, 36 ; S. 294, 23.

gifan

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Ðing tó geafanne munus offerendum Mt. p. 14, 13. to give up to, devote, consign Ic hí ne sparige, ac on spild giefe, Jul. 85.

ós

(n.)
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Thus Ós-beorn, Ós-lác, Ós-wine, Ós-weald preserve the word which is found in Ás-björn, Ás-lákr, Ás-mundr, and this is certainly the independent áss. The O. H. Ger. Ans-gár shews the same word.

Linked entry: ésa

grétan

(v.)
Grammar
grétan, he grét, pl. grétaþ; p. grétte, pl. grétton; pp. gréted.
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Ælfríc munuc grét Æðelwærd ealdorman Ælfric the monk greets alderman Ethelward, Pref. Thw. 1, 1. Ðonne he on gaton gréteþ his grame feondas cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta, Ps. Th. 126, 6.

híwian

(v.)

to formfabricateto feignto dissemble

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Anatolius hátte sum híwigende munuc, and hé behýdde his yfelnysse, 31, 792. to make as if: Ne híwa ðú, mín bearn, swilce ðú mid bilewitnysse mæge gán orsorh tó mǽdena húsum, Hex. 48, 9.

etan

to devourconsumedestroy

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.), se munuc stód him ætforan, Gr. D. 144, 1. Ðíne suna and ðíne dohtra ǽton and druncon mid heora yldestan bréðer, Hml. Th. ii. 450, 16. Hí ǽton ǽne on dæg, Bt. 15; F. 48, 8. Éton manducaverunt, Ps. Srt. 21, 30.

ge-girwan

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Ꝥ wæter is gegyred tó þám neoðerum stówum fram þám cnolle þæs muntes ut aqua ab illo montis cacumine usque ad inferiora derivetur, 113, 13. to present, give Þá máðmas ic þé bringan wylle, éstum gegyrwan, B. 2149

ge-wissian

(v.)
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I. 16, 17, 12. with dat. or uncertain God his weorce gewissað oð ðisse weorulde geendunge est gubernator in totius mundi naturis, Angl. vii. 4, 24. Hé mid þǽm pallium þǽr mæssode swá se pápa him gewissode, Chr. 1022; P. 157, 2.