Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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gilp-plega

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Add: play that is glorious with pomp, pride and circumstance

hlæd-disc

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a dish containing various kinds of fruit. Dele '(?)', and add:

hornung-sunu

Grammar
hornung-sunu, For Cot. 142
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substitute Hornungsunu nothus Wrt. Voc. ii. 61, 67, and add:

pillan

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Substitute : <b>pilian;</b> and add : (?)

rægiming

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Dele, and see fægiminge ( = fægnunge) plausu, An. Ox. 2, 399

stihtan

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Þú hí siððan stýrest and stihtest, Met. 20, 178. Add

crǽwst

(v.)
Grammar
crǽwst, he crǽwþ crowest, crows
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2nd and 3rd pers. pres. of cráwan.Lk. Bos. 22, 34

ǽnforléten

(v.; part.)
Grammar
ǽnforléten, part.

Clothed? ⬩ amictus? ⬩ amissus? and not amictus

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Clothed? amictus?Ps. Spl. T. 103, 2;amissus? and not amictus

dræhþ

(v.)
Grammar
dræhþ, ðú dræhst
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drags, thou draggest; 3 rd and 2nd pers. pres. of dragan

hundteóntig-geáre

(adj.)
Grammar
hundteóntig-geáre, adj.
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Aged a hundred Adam leofode hundteóntigeáre and þrittegeáre, Gen. 5, 3

lǽlian

(v.)

livescere

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to become black and blue; livescere, Wrt. Voc. ii. 50 41

rípung

(n.)
Grammar
rípung, e; f.
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Spoliation, plundering Fordéminge and rýpincge proscriptionem, fraudationem, Hpt. Gl. 480, 38

bilst

(v.)
Grammar
bilst, he bilþ

bellowest, bellows

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bellowest, bellows; Similar entries 2nd and 3rd pers. pres. of bellan

reodian

(v.)
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Ic þragum, þreodude and geþanc reodode, Elen. Kmbl. 2476;El. 1239. (?)

Sumersǽtisc

(adj.)
Grammar
Sumersǽtisc, adj.
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Of Somerset Defenisces folces and Sumorsǽtisces, Chr. 1001; Erl. 137, 11

wyn-wyrt

(n.)
Grammar
wyn-wyrt, e ; f.

A pleasant plant

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A pleasant plant Ðǽr wynwyrta weóxon and bleówon, Dóm. L. 5

á-bedecian

(v.)
Grammar
á-bedecian, ; p. ode
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To get by begging. v. a-beþecian in Dict. and bedecian

ǽ-þrýtness

Grammar
ǽ-þrýtness, l. ǽ-þrytness,
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and add Ǽþrytnesse tedium, Hy. S. 133, 28. Ǽþretnysse, 25, 24

be-hyðlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
be-hyðlíce, l. be-hýþelíce,
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and substitute: Sumptuously Behý-ðelíce sumptuosius, Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 24

beór-sele

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Hearpe and pípe drémað eów on beórsele, Wlfst.46 17. Add

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