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ge-wring

Grammar
ge-wring, ge-wryng ?.
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Stór þe bið of gewringe stacten, Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 28. Add

hæsel-rǽw

(n.)
Grammar
hæsel-rǽw, e; f.
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A row of hazels On ðá hæselrǽwe, C. D. iii. 77, 4

gold-wecg

(n.)
Grammar
gold-wecg, es; m.
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A lump of gold Goldwecg (-wecd, MS.) auri metallum, An. Ox. 451

Linked entry: gold-óra

grammatisc

(adj.)
Grammar
grammatisc, adj.
Entry preview:

Grammatical, of grammar In gramatiscne cræft, Bd. 4, 2; Sch. 344, 19

Linked entry: gramatisc

hirwing

(n.)
Grammar
hirwing, e; f.

Evil-speaking ⬩ blasphemy

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Evil-speaking, blasphemy Of heortan manna ... forðstæppað ... hyrwincga (blasphemia), Scint. 137, 12

heorotbremel-leáf

(n.)
Grammar
heorotbremel-leáf, es; n.
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A leaf of the buckthorn Cnúa heorot-brénibelleáf. Lch. ii. 332, 6

Linked entry: heorot-brembel

hyrnen

(adj.)
Grammar
hyrnen, adj.
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Full of corners Hyrnynum angulosis. An. Ox. 7, 20. Cf. hyrn-full

lungen-ǽder

(n.)
Grammar
lungen-ǽder, e; f.
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A lung-vein Lǽt him of lungenǽdre blód. Lch. ii. 106, 24

líc-burg

(n.)
Grammar
líc-burg, e; f.
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A city of the dead, a cemetery: — Lícburg cimiterium, Txts. 51, 472

lifer-seócness

(n.)
Grammar
lifer-seócness, e; f.
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Disease of the liver Wið liferseócnysse, Lch. i. 286, 24 : 304, 9

métan

(v.)
Grammar
métan, to paint.
Entry preview:

Wercað hió of weaxe . . . mgtað Fenix, E. S. viii. 478, 50. Add

nyhtsum-ness

(n.)
Grammar
nyhtsum-ness, e; f.
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Abundance Of nihtsumnesse (abundantia) blisse gesibsum mann byð oncnáwen, Scint. 11, 13

pund-fald

(n.)
Grammar
pund-fald, a
Entry preview:

pinfold On hacan pundfald; of hacan pundfalde, C. D. vi. 41, 24

Linked entry: pyndan

scripp

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Dele, the MSS. of Hml. Th. i. 394, 7 have scip, scipp

ýr

(n.)
Entry preview:

For this explanation of the word see Anglia xxxv. 175. )

á-þwínan

(v.)
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to dwindle away, vanish Se scucce áðwán of heora gesihþe, Nap. 74

Linked entry: þwínan

reosan

Grammar
reosan, glosses

pissli ⬩ (in a list of plant names)

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; pissli; (in a list of plant names), Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 44

Riffeng

(n.)

Riphaei montes

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Riphaei montes Of Riffeng ðám beorgum, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 8, 15

sceadiht

(adj.)
Grammar
sceadiht, adj.

Shady

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Shady Of munte scedehtum de monte umbroso, Ps. Surt. ii. p. 189,16

Linked entry: scedeht

æhrie

(n.)
Grammar
æhrie, (?), æhrige, an; f.

The husk of an ear(?)

Entry preview:

The husk of an ear(?) Aehrian, ægrihan (æhrigan?) quisquiliae, Txts. 90, 840

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