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Anglo-Saxon

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glid

(adj.)
Grammar
glid, adj.

Slipperyready to glidelubricus

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Slippery, ready to glide; lubricus, Ps. Spl. C. 34, 7

Linked entry: glidder

trendeled

(adj.)
Grammar
trendeled, adj.

Made round

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Made round Tryndyled reáf circumtectum Wrt. Voc. i. 40, 29

Linked entry: tryndyled

blác

(adj.)
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Andwlitu geolwe blác ... reáde wan, Lch. ii. 348, 16-19. Add

hirwend-lic

(adj.)
Grammar
hirwend-lic, adj.

Contemptible

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The word might be the acc. fem. of an adjective, or it might be an adverb, in which case contemtim must be read

mete-rǽdere

(n.)
Grammar
mete-rǽdere, es; m.
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The brother appointed for the week to read aloud to the others at meals. Cf. Be ðǽre wucan rǽdere. Gebróðra gereorde æt hyra mýsum ne sceal beón bútan háligre rǽdinge, R. Ben. 62, 2-4, Gyf þú meterǽdere fyldstól habban wille, Tech. ii. 122, 20

tó-weaxan

(v.)
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grow in a scattered way, cover with a scattered growth Under þám eáhþýrle geonode mycclu neolnes, and seó wæs eall tóweaxen mid mycelnessum þára clifstána sub fenestra ingens praecipitiwm patebat saxorum molibus asperum (aspersum seems to have been read

arod

(adj.)
Grammar
arod, adj.

Quickswiftreadypreparedcelerveloxpromptusparatus

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Quick, swift, ready, prepared; celer, velox, promptus, paratus Ðá wearþ sum to ðam arod, ðæt he in ðæt búrgeteld néþde then one became ready for this, that he ventured into the bower-tent, Judth. 12; Thw. 25, 24; Jud. 275

pistol-rǽdere

(n.)
Grammar
pistol-rǽdere, es; m.
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He who reads the epistle in church, R. Conc. 5

Linked entry: under-diácon

ge-bliód

(v.)
Grammar
ge-bliód, part.

Colouredvariegatedcolŏrātusvariegātus

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Coloured, variegated; colŏrātus, variegātus Gebliód reáf vestis variegāta, Prov. 31

gearuwe

(n.)
Grammar
gearuwe, an; f.

Yarrowmillefŏlium

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Yarrow; millefŏlium Seó reáde gearuwe the red yarrow, Lchdm. iii. 24, 2

moþ-freten

(adj.)
Grammar
moþ-freten, adj.
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Moth-eaten: — Heora reáf nǽron nán þingc moðfretene, Hml. S. 23, 437

ymb-swápan

Grammar
ymb-swápan, <b>. II.</b>
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Hié úme Dryhten Críst ymbsweópon mid reáde hragle, Nap. 71, 27. Add

cyne-wirþe

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Se king áwearp his cynewurðe reáf him of, Verc. Först. 141. Add

cnyss

(n.)
Grammar
cnyss, (?), e; f.
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Or is heort-ancnysse (= -angnysse) to be read ? Cf. cardiacus dicitur qui patitur laborem cordis, vel morbus cordis heortcoþa vel ece, Wrt. Voc. i. 128, 64

Linked entry: heort-angness

ge-dragan

(v.)
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Here the form belongs to gedragan, but the meaning points to gedreógan; perhaps gedrcóg should be read

Linked entry: dragan

lǽmen

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In l. 8 read lǽmena for lǽmina (v. Wülck. Gl. 404, 39), and add Se líchoma lǽmen is, for ðám þe hé of ðám geworht wæs, Verc, Först. 148, 21. Ðá ðæs æfter sexténe geárum forlét hé þone lǽmnan ofn ðæs menniscan líchoman, Shrn. 50, 33

brýd-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
brýd-líc, adj.

Bridalnuptialis

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Bridal; nuptialis Reáf brýdlíc vestem nuptialem, Mt. Lind. Stv. 22, 12

un-hrædsprǽce

(adj.)
Grammar
un-hrædsprǽce, adj.

Not ready of speech

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Not ready of speech Ic eom unhrædsprǽce incircumcisus sum labiis, Ex. 6, 30

Linked entry: hræd-sprǽce

heaðu-geong

(adj.)
Grammar
heaðu-geong, adj.

Young and active in battle

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[Hickes reads hearo], Fins. Th. 3; Fin. 2

hrére-mús

(n.)
Grammar
hrére-mús, e; f.

bat

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A rear-, rere-mouse, bat Hrére-mús vespertilio, Wrt. Voc. 77, 40

Linked entry: hreáðe-mús