wícing
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Ðá métton hié .xvi. scipu wícenga (-inga, v. l. ), 885; Erl. 82, 28. Gegaderode micel here hine of Eást-Englum, ǽgðer ge ðæs landheres ge ðara wícinga ðe hié him tó fultume áspanen hæfdon, 921; Erl. 107, 15. Wearð wícingum wiþerleán ágifen, Byrht.
Linked entry: scegð-mann
bile-witness
Mildness, simplicity, innocence ⬩ simplicitas
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Mildness, simplicity, innocence; simplicitas Se God wunaþ simle on ðære heán ceastre his ánfealdnesse and bilewitnesse God dwells always in the high city of his unity and simplicity, Bt. 39, 5; Fox 218, 19.
Linked entries: bil-wetnes bil-witness
bídan
to wait ⬩ remain ⬩ to await ⬩ experience
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Hi bídaþ, hwæt him déman wille tó leáne, Jul. 706: Cri. 802. Bídan, hwæs him cyning unnan wolde, An. 145. Bídan, hwonne him betre líf ágyfen wurde, Gu. 751. uncertain Bídende suspensus (Lk. 19, 48), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 70.
un-gelícness
Difference ⬩ dissimilarity ⬩ diversity
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Difference, dissimilarity, diversity Ic cwæð ðæt ǽghwelc mon wǽre óðrum gelíc ácenned, ac sió ungelícnes hiera earnunga hié tíhð sume behindan sume ...
ymb-sirwan
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For ðæm sint tó manianne ða ðe lange ymbsieriaþ ðæt hí ongieten hú micel wíte hí sculun habban beforan ðǽm óðrum hoc ergo praecipitatione lapsis per consilium pereuntes differunt, quod, cum hi a statu justitiae peccando concidunt, plerumque simul et in
ge-hogian
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Hé þæt on his móde gehogode (-hogod, v. l.) and geteód hæfde (decreuerat), þæt he wolde his þeóde fordón, Bd. 3, 24; Sch. 307, 6.
Linked entry: ge-hycgan
hwanan
Whence
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Ðá næfde hé hwanon hé his wer águlde he had not means to pay his 'wer', Chart. Th. 207, 36
Linked entry: hwonan
wiþer-sæc
striving ⬩ opposition ⬩ contradiction ⬩ denial ⬩ apostasy ⬩ recusancy
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Kmbl. 1135; El. 569. apostasy, recusancy Ðæt heora (the Northumbrians) geleáfa wurde áwend eft tó Gode fram ðam wiþersæce ðe hi tó gewende wǽron, Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 63. Wearð geopenad his earman wífe his mánfullan behát ðam deófle ...
flá
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Hé gebende his bogan and mid geǽttrode flán (strǽle, Bl. H. 199, 18) ðone fearr ofsceótan wolde; ac seó geǽttrode flá wende ongeán . . . Se mann mid his ágenre flán ofscoten wæs, Hml. Th. i. 502, 17-30.
twi-béte
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Needing double compensation; a term applied to an offence when from special circumstances the bót was twice that to be paid in an ordinary case Gif hwá nunnan mid hǽmedþinge oþþe on hire hrægl oþþe on hire breóst bútan hire leáfe gefó, sié hit twybéte
Linked entry: -béte
twi-rǽde
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Oððe hwæðer ðú eft on ǽngum geþeahte swá twiorǽde sié ðæt ðé helpe hwæðer hit gewyrþe þe hit nó ne gewyrþe consider in your own case whether you have so firmly determined anything, that it appears to you, that it will never with your consent be changed
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fela
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Hié fela wucena sǽton, Chr. 894; P. 87, 22. Fela geára, Bd. 5, 15; Sch. 652, 15. Hé bræ-acute;d hine on feala bleóna, Bl. H. 175, 5.
Linked entry: feald
ge-egesian
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Se wéna ðára tóweardena yfela hié geegesige cum suspecta mala contristant, Past. 395, 2. Ðæt wé úre hiéremenn suá geárige suá wé hié eft geegesian (-egsian, v. l.) mæge ut praelatus subditorum vitam stringere sub disciplinae vinculo possit, 119, 5.
lyffettan
To flatter
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Ða byrþeras ðe hine tó byrgenne feredon synd ólæcunga lyffetyndra geférena the bearers who carried him to the grave are the blandishments of flattering companions, Homl. Th. i. 492, 28.
Linked entry: liffettan
BOLSTER
A BOLSTER, a pillow for the head ⬩ cervical ⬩ a shell ⬩ culcita ⬩ cervical ⬩ a mattress ⬩ a bolster
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Hit geondbrǽded wearþ beddum and bolstrum it was overspread with beds and bolsters, Beo. Th. 2484; B. 1240
seonu-bend
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Siððan hine Níðhád on néde legde swoncre seonobende (Grein would read -benne, which is more in accordance with the story in the Edda, that Völund had the sinews of the knees cut: v. Thorpe's note on this passage, and his Northern Mythology, i. 86.
teám-byrst
The failure to produce a geteáma in a suit.
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Ðá bæd Byrhferhð ealdor-mann Æðelstán his wer for ðam témbyrste, Chart. Th. 207, 4
þeáw-líc
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usual, customary Sum wít mid sealfe his fét smyrode, swá swá hit þeáwílc wæs on ðære þeóde, Homl. Ass. 41, 439. moral, figurative Þeáwlíc[r]e spǽce tropologiae, figurati sermonis, Hpt. Gl. 432, 13.
bor-líce
Eminently ⬩ excellently ⬩ well
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Þá híw rímcræftige esnas borlíce foregylpað, 334, 27. Wolde ic ꝥ þá æþelan clericas ásceócon fram heora andgites orðance ǽlce sleacnysse, ꝥ hig þe borlícor mihton gecýðan þǽra epactena gesceád, 315, 5
cyssan
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Hió cyst deosculatur, Kent. Gl. 192. Ne cys þú míne fét, Hml. S. 5, 301. Cyssan bassiare, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 19. Ǽlc þára manna þe óðerne swíðe lufað, hine lyst bet cyssan ðonne óðerne on bær líc, þonne þér þǽr cláðas betweóna beóð, Shrn. 185, 31.