mǽte
Moderate ⬩ mean ⬩ small ⬩ poor ⬩ bad ⬩ inferior
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Hors tó healfan punde gif hit swá gód sý; and gif hit mǽtre sý, gilde be his wlites wyrþe, L. Ath. V. 6; Th. i. 232, 25. Nalæs ðæt án ðætte ða mǽttran (mǽteran, MS.
mere
the sea ⬩ a mere ⬩ lake ⬩ an artificial pool ⬩ cistern
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Nis ðæt feor heonon ðæt se mere standeþ, Beo. Th. 2729; B. 1362. In eálonde ðæs myclan meres ( stagni ), Bd. 4, 29; S. 607, 10. Seó menigeo ðe stód begeondan ðam mere, Jn. Skt. 6, 22. On culfran mere; of ðæm mere ...
feormian
to maintain ⬩ foster ⬩ to feast
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Sé þe þeóf dearnunga feormige, 228, 21. Lóc hwá þone flýman féde oþþe feormige, 382, 21.
úþ-wita
a philosopher ⬩ scribe ⬩ geo metrician
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Skt. Lind. 1, 22. Úðwutto (-wuta, Rush.), Lk. Skt. Lind. 22, 66. Swá swá úþwitena gewuna is ut geometrae solent, Bt. 34, 4; Fox 138, 28. Sume of úðuutum (-wutum, Rush.) quidam de scribis, Mk. Skt. Lind. 7, 1. Wǽ iúh uuðutum, Mt. Kmbl, Lind. 23, 29.
wær-scipe
Prudence, caution, circumspection, wisdom,in a bad sense, cunning, astuteness
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For wísdóme and wærscipe consilio, Past. 20; Swt. 149, 16. Búton wærscipe unadvisedly, Homl. Skt. i. 11, 361. Mid máran fultume and mid máran wærscipe circumspectiore cura ac magis instructo adparatu, Ors. 3, 8; Swt. 120, 25.
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á-teorian
to get exhausted ⬩ faint, ⬩ to lose heart or energy ⬩ get weary ⬩ faint ⬩ to get exhausted ⬩ come to an end ⬩ fail ⬩ be wanting ⬩ to be defective
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Se déma hét him ǽtes forwyrnan ꝥ hé swá áteorode. Hml. S. 22, 137. fig. to lose heart or energy, get weary, faint Wíte com ofer ðé and ðú áteorodest, Hml. Th. ii. 454, 18. Ne ðú ne átiara ðonne ðú bist ðreád, (nec deficias) Kent. Gl. 38.
DELFAN
To dig, dig out, DELVE ⬩ fŏdĕre, effŏdĕre
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Gif se delfere ða eorþan nó ne dulfe if the digger had not dug the earth, 40, 6; Fox. 242, 7
fleótan
To FLOAT ⬩ swim ⬩ fluctuāre ⬩ nătāre ⬩ nāvĭgāre
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Se feónde [MS. feond] gespearn fleótende hreáw the exulting [fowl] perched on the floating corpses, Cd. 72; Th. 87, 12; Gen. 1447.
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ge-scerian
to bestow, appoint, provide, ordain, destine ⬩ tribuere, providere, ordinare, destinare ⬩ to number, reckon ⬩ numerare ⬩ to ordain, arrange
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six hundred sceats of beaten gold were numbered, Exon. 86 a; Th. 324, 9; Wíd. 92.
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sláw
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Ðú sláwa gá ðé tó æmethylle vade ad fortnican, o piger, Past. 28, 3; Swt. 191, 25. On óðre wísan sceal man manian ða sláwan (cf. late, Swt. 281, 16), on óðre ða ðe beóþ tó hrade, Past. "23; Swt. 175, 25.
templ
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A temple Se wítga spræc suelce ðæt templ wǽre eal tóworpen; hé cuæð ... 'Tóworpne sint ða stánas ðæs temples,' Past. 18; Swt. 133, 10. ' Ðis tenrpel wæs getimbrod on six and feówertigon wintron' ... Hé hyt cwæð be hys líchaman temple, Jn.
un-bindan
To unbind ⬩ untie
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Skt. 1, 27. 'Æfter his beháte ic ðé unbinde' ... Se engel hire ðá unband, Homl. Th. i. 466, 31. Swá hwæt swá ðú unbindst ( solveres) ofer eorðan, ðæt byð unbunden (solutum) on heofonum, Mt. Kmbl. 16, 19: 18, 18.
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á-blendar
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Se áblenda Datianus, Hml. S. 14, 128. as a medical term Cancer áblendan to prevent suppuration in a cancer Lch. i. 6, 24; 88, 20
anda
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Búta ondo sine timore, Lk. L. R. 1, 74. Add
cwilman
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Srt. ii. p. 186, 21. Se lég hié cwylmde, Bl. H. 203, 16. Ðæt hié cwaelmen ( trucident ) ðá rehtheortan, Ps. Srt. 36, 14. His híréd wæs gestanden mid cwylmendre ádle and wǽron deáda ǽgðer ge his þeówas ge þeówena, Hml. S. 30, 142.
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geára
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Swá swá geára beboden wæs Godes folce, 35, 19 ; 93, 29. Sé him wæs geára . . . geþeóded, Guth. 52, 6.
hǽman
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S. 23 b, 396. Þone þe hǽme wið nýtén qai coierit 19 ; Ll. Th. i. 52, 11. Sé þe mid nunnon hǽme, 2. 46, 6. <b>II a.</b> figurative :-- Þú fordydest ǽlcne man sé þe hǽmþ (fornicatur) fram þé, Ps. L. 72, 27
húru-þinga
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Sé þe . . . dæghwámlice his circan gesécan ne mæge, hé húruðinga on ðám Sunnandagum þider cume, Hml.
hú-lic
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Add: in direct questions. qualifying a noun, what sort of Húlic heáfod hæfð se Pater Noster?, Sal. K. 148, 14. predicative, of what sort Húlig is ðes? qualis est hic?, Mt.
má
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Add: in or to a greater degree, extent, or quantity Hí forseóð hí selfe lǽs on þysum middanearde þá þe þæncað ꝥ hí sýn sylfe má góde þonne óðre men ut minus se in hoc mundo despiciant qui plus se ceteris aliquid fuisse meminerunt, Gr. D. 151, 27.