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ge-wæterian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-wæterian, -wætrian; p. ode; pp. od

To water ⬩ irrigate ⬩ adăquāre ⬩ irrĭgāre

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To water, irrigate; adăquāre, irrĭgāre Ðæt mǽge and cunne óðerra monna inngeþonc giendgeótan and gewæterian [gewætrian, MS. Cot.] that he may be able and know how to irrigate and water the minds of others, Past. 18, 5; Swt. 137, 10; Hat.

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fór-gangan

(v.)
Grammar
fór-gangan, fóre-gangan; p. -geóng, -géng, pl. -geóngon, -géngon; pp. -gangen

To go before ⬩ precede ⬩ præīre ⬩ præcēdĕre

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To go before, precede; præīre, præcēdĕre Mildheortnes and sóþfæstnes fórgangaþ ðínne andwlitan miserĭcordia et vērĭtas præībunt ante făciem tuam. Ps. Th. 88, 13

fore-mearcod

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Voc. ii. 68, 64, Mid foremearcedum collectum cum prenotatis collectis, Angl. xiii. 391, 378. For Cot. 157 substitute and add:

leásettan

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Þonne hý sume mid geficum wið þone ánne þeódað and leásettað, sume wið þone óþerne dum adulantur partibus R. Ben. 125, 2. Add

be-gríwan

(v.)
Grammar
be-gríwan, (only in) pp. be-griwen
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Th. i. 384, 27. of guilt, sunk in On ánum dæge hé oft geworhte unrím scylda, and nǽnige gebétan ne wolde, and in oferfyllo hé wæs begriwen on unrihttídum, Vercell. MS. fol. 21 b.

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bodian

(v.)

to declare ⬩ proclaim ⬩ to foretell ⬩ prophesy ⬩ celebrate ⬩ praise ⬩ to preach ⬩ a person ⬩ a doctrine ⬩ belief

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Past. 163, 2. to announce what is coming : Fricca and forerynele her iernað beforan kyningum and bodigeað (bodiað, v. l. ) hira færelt and hiera willan hlýdende, suá sculun ðá sácerdas nú faran hlýdende and bodiende beforan ðǽm egeslican déman ðe him

piporian

(v.)
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Wring ðurh cláð and pipera þonne, Lch. iii. 40, 7. Cnucian gódne dǽl gárleáces and dón þǽrtó and piperian swá swá þé þince, Archiv lxxxiv. 325 c. Add

geár-geriht

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Þæt wé eal gelǽstan on geárgerihtan þæt úre yldran hwílum ǽr Gode behétan; ðæt is sulhælmessan and Rómpenegas and cyricsceattas and leóhtgescota, Wlfst, 113, 9. Add

leáh

Grammar
leáh, lye.
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Lǽcedónias wiþ miclum heáfodece . . . and sealf tó þon ilcan, and leáh and eágsealfa, Lch. ii. 172, 28 : 302, 23. Add

scip-réðra

(n.)
Grammar
scip-réðra, an; m.

A sailor

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Hé on scyp code, and myd hys scypréðrum hys segl up áhóf, and forþ seglode, St. And. 38, 32

dígolnes

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Dígelnyssa abstrusa, An. Ox. 1952. Wé habbað ðás race ánfealdlíce gereht; wé willað eác þæt andgit eów geopenian, and ðá dýgelnysse eów ne bedyrnan, Hml. Th. ii. 214, 18. a secret place On dígelnesse latibulo, i. secretorio, An. Ox. 392.

ge-bledsian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-bledsian, p. ode; pp. od [ge-, bledsian to bless]

To bless ⬩ benedīcĕre

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Andr. Kmbl. 1048; An. 524: 1079; An. 540: 1873; An. 939: 3434; An. 1721

freoðu-wǽr

(n.)

a covenant of peace

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a covenant of peace, Andr. Kmbl. 3259; An. 1632

hell-træf

(n.)
Grammar
hell-træf, es; m.

A hellish, infernal building,

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A hellish, infernal building, Andr. Kmbl. 3379; An. 1693

heofon-leóma

(n.)
Grammar
heofon-leóma, an; m.

A heavenly radiance, light,

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A heavenly radiance, light, Andr. Kmbl. 1675; An. 840

íð-fynde

(adj.)
Grammar
íð-fynde, adj.

Easy to find

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Easy to find Ýðfynde, Andr. Kmbl. 3092; An. 1549

mis-gehygd

(n.)
Grammar
mis-gehygd, es; n.

Evil mind or thought

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Evil mind or thought, Andr. Kmbl. 1543; An. 773

Linked entry: ge-hygd

gryre-hwíl

(n.)
Grammar
gryre-hwíl, e; f.

A time of terror

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A time of terror Andr. Kmbl. 935; An. 468

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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He [Xersis] hæfde scipa ðæra mycclena dulmúna in M and ii hund he [Xerxes] had one thousand two hundred of the large ships, dulmunus, Ors. 2, 5; Bos. 46, 32, 33. v.

swǽsende

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
swǽsende, es; but occurring almost always in pl. swǽsendu (-a, -o); n.

food, victuals, refection ⬩ flatteries, blandishments, fair speech.

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Ðá hét ic eallne ðone here ðæt hé tó swǽsendum sǽte and mete þigde cenare militem jussi 23, 8. Swǽsende, swǽsenda þicgan to take food :-- Sæt hé and swǽsende ðeah and dranc (sæt hé on swǽsendum and æt and dranc, MS.

Linked entries: swoese swésende

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