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wang-turf

(n.)
Grammar
wang-turf, gen. -tyrf; f.Turf,
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rf, grass-land Ðæt ic móte ðis gealdor tóðum ontýnan . . . wlitigan ðás wancgturf (cf. the beginning of the article : Hér ys seó bót hú ðú meaht ðíne æceras bétan gif hí nellaþ wel wexan, 398, 1), Lchdm. i. 400, 7

healtian

(v.)
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Gangas rihte dóð mid fótum eówrum þæt ná healtigende (claudicans) worige (Heb. 12, 13), Scint. 186, 3. Add

hnifol

Grammar
hnifol, hneofola (-e?)
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Hneofulan (heo-fulan, v. l. heafolan, lxxiv, 4) fronti Lch. i. lxx, 3. Add:

hrís

(adj.)
Grammar
hrís, (?); adj.
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. ¶ in a local name :-- Heó ann ðæs landæs æt Hrísan beorgan, C. D. iii. 360, 4. Cf. Ultra flumen Tamense, Hrisebeorgam, 347, 11. See preceding word

seowian

(v.)
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Álces mannes miht þe on módignysse færð is þám gelic swilce man siwige áne bytte, and bláwe hí fulle windes, and wyrce siððan án þyrl þonne heó tóþunden bið on hire greátnysse, þonne tógǽð seó miht, Hml. S. 34, 316. Add

up-wæstm

(n.)

growth upwardsstature

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growth upwards, stature Se cyningc hét bringan ísenne scamol; se wæs emnheáh ðæs mannes upwæstme; ðæt wæs twelf fæðma lang jussit rex fieri scamnum ferreum secundum statum ejus.

Horsa

(n.)
Grammar
Horsa, an; m.
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Hér Hengest and Horsa fuhton wið Wyrtgeorne ðam cyninge in ðære stówe ðe is gecueden Agælesþrep and his bróður Horsan man ofslóg, 455; Erl. 12, 13

á-wefan

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Heó wæs gegyred myd golde áwefenum hrægelum, Shrn. 149, 21. Add

under-wendan

(v.)

subvertere

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glosses subvertere in: underwende subuertat, Scint. 196, 6

éþel-wyn

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mé lond forgeaf, eard, éðelwyn, B. 2493. Add

ge-teóþian

(v.)
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wolde his irfe geteóðian, Past. 101, 17. Add

be-spirian

(v.)
Grammar
be-spirian, -spirigan, -spyrigan; p. ode; pp. od

To inquire, traceinquirere, investigare

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Se ðe bespyrige [bespirige, Wilk.] yrfe innan óðres land, aspirige hit út, se ðe ðæt land áge, gif he mǽge he who traces cattle into another's land, let him trace it out, who owns that land, if he can, iv. 2; Th. i. 222, 14

Linked entry: be-spyrigan

ge-sibbian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-sibbian, p. ode, ade, ede; pp. od, ad, ed [sibbian to pacify]

To make peaceful, pacify, appease, gladdenpācāre, pācĭfĭcāre, concĭliāre, lætĭfĭcāreto reconcileunited.

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Ðá he hæfde ðone híréd gesibbodne when he had reconciled the household, Blickl. Homl. 225, 10

andgit-full

(adj.)
Grammar
andgit-full, (-get-).
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Þá andgitfull wæs when he had come to years of discretion, Shrn. 12, 17. Se man déð swylce andgytful sý þe lytel can tó geráde, Wlfst. 53, 4. Andgytful capax, An. Ox. 3101. Þæs antgyttfullan intellectualis, 897.

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dæg-wist

(n.)
Grammar
dæg-wist, e; f.
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A meal, food ðone hálgan ( Cuthbert) grétte, biddende þæt him dægwistes tíðode (that he would give him a meal ). Cúðberhtus cwæð: 'Ic wolde ðíne ðénunge sylf nú gearcian, gif ic mé mid féðunge ferian mihte,' Hml. Th. ii. 134, 30.

ge-bǽdan

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wæs mid nýde gebǽded and mid his ágnum wíte ꝥ ongan swerian ꝥ . . . poena sua exigente compulsus est jurare . . . 255, 10 : Bl. H. 83, 32. Add: —

ildian

(v.)
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Th. i. 350, 14 (in Dict.). with (negative) clause Se munuc gehýrde þá word þæs hátendan, ac hwæþre yldode ꝥ þá hǽsa gefyllan nolde monachus audivit jubentis verba, sed implere distulit, Gr.

leornung-mann

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Ox. 2, 175- ¶ with reference to the teacher :-- 'Wénað wé hwæþer ǽnigne láreów hæfde?' 'Ne gehýrde ic nǽfre ꝥ ǽniges mannes leorningmann (discipulus) wǽre,' Gr. D. 12, 24. Ne mæg beón mín leorningman, Hml. S. 33, 114.

be-fóran

(prep.)
Grammar
be-fóran, bi-fóran; prep. I. dat. II. acc. [be by, proximity, fóran fore, as æt fóran]

BEFOREantecorampræBEFORE

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BEFORE; ante, coram, præ He swíðe oft befóran fremede folces rǽswum wundor æfter wundre he very often performed before the princes of the people miracle after miracle, Andr. Kmbl. 1237; An. 619.

Linked entries: bi-fóran bi-fóran

hara

(n.)
Grammar
hara, an; m.

A hare

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sætte be ðám haran ðæt hí mósten freó faran he decreed concerning hares, that they should go free, Chr. 1086; Erl. 222, 30