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wíc-stów

(n.)
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wíc-stów, e ; f.
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Past. 54; Swt. 423, 13. a camp, an encampment; both singular and plural forms are used to translate castra Hé nemde ðære stówe naman Manaim, ðæt is wícstów ( castra ), Gen. 32, 2.

wóhness

(n.)
Grammar
wóhness, e; f.

crookednesswrongdoinginiquilyperversitydepravitywickedness

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Ealle wóhnyssa beóð gerihte erwni prava in directa(Is. 40, 4), Homl. Th. i. 360, 33. wrongdoing, iniquily, perversity, depravity, wickedness Heora wóhnys on ðam regole his rihtwisnysse aetspearn. Homl. Th. ii. 158, 10.

Linked entry: wóness

yfel-willende

(adj.)
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yfel-willende, adj. (ptcpl.)
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Hú ne is se ðonne yfelwillende and yfelwyrcende ðe ðone unscyldigan wítnaþ? omnem improbum num supplicio dignum negas? . . . Infelices esse, qui sint improbi, liquet, Bt. 38, 6; Fox 208, 8-11.

ǽtren

(adj.)
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¶ in the northern Gospels and the Ritual the word is used as substantive or adjective of the viper :-- Sió hátterne vipera , Rtl. 125, 27. Cynna ǽterna (cynn ǽterne, R.) genimina uiperarum , Lk. L. 3, 7. Cynn ǽttema progenies uiperarum .

cyre

(n.)
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Hé sealde swíðe fæste gife . . . ꝥ is seó gifu, ꝥ se man mót dón ꝥ hé wile, Hml. S. 17, 250. Gehwilc man hæfð ágenne cyre, ǽr ðám ðe hé syngige, hweðer hé wille filian deófles willan oððe wiðsacan, Hml. Th. i. 212, 11.

freóls

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Add: freedom in respect to land granted, grant of land that enjoys immunity; libertas Þis is ealra þára landa freóls þe Eádgár cyning geedfreólsade Wulfríce his þegene (cf.

ge-liger

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ge-liger, l. ge-ligere (ge-ligre),
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Ic eom ondetta sodomiscre synne þe hié on gegyltan, þæt is geligre, Angl. xi. 98, 21. Geligeres prostibuli (v. forlig-gang), Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 77. Þurh ꝥ grimme bismergleów þæs mánfullan geligeres, Hml. S. 23 b, 451.

geond

(adv.)
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geond, adv.
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Th. i. 354, 20. where there is motion, thither, over there Þanon ealle wé flugon geond tó þǽre dúne thence we all fled over there to the hill, Hml. S. 23, 740. Uton þyder geond gán let us go over there to the place, 748: 321.

ge-rímcræft

(n.)
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Þá Egiptiscan þe sélost cunnon on gerímcræfte tealdón ꝥ seó lenctenlice emniht is on duodecima kl. April. Lch. iii. 256, 7. Wise Rómáne gesetton on gerímcraefte þæt nǽfre ǽr xi. kl. Aprelis Eástortíd gewurðan sceal, 226, 8 : Hex. 8, 5.

Linked entry: rím-cræft

ge-sundfulnes

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Is on líchaman se lǽssa man betere mid gesundfulnysse þonne se unhála beó and hæbbe Golian mycelnysse, Hml. A. 40, 410. good fortune, prosperity, happiness of condition þæt hé óðres mannes ungelimp besárgige and on his gesundfulnysse fægnige, Hml.

ge-beórscipe

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Se þearfa . . . þe mid þé is tó cumenne tó engla gebeórscipe, 142, 107. Ǽlc ðǽra manna ðe ðæne deófollican unðeáw hæfð, ꝥ hé wile on his gebeórscipe þurh his hálsunge and ðurh his neádunge gedón, ꝥ óðre men nimað máre ðonne hit gemet sý, 145, 22.

gedwol-mann

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Add: one who is in error, (i) a mistaken person, ne who acts under a misapprehension : — Fæder, . . . forgif ðás dǽde þisum gedwolmannum, for ðan ðe hí nyton hwæt hí nú dóð, Hml.

Linked entry: dwol-mann

ge-deorf

(n.)
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' Ne wiðcweðe wé þæt hit micel gedeorf ne sý; ac gif hit is hefigtýme . . . Hml. Th. i. 56, 1-4. Þæt hý þe glædlícor bútan gedeorfe and miclum geswince heora gebróðrum ðénien ut sine murmuratione et graui labore seruiant fratribus suis, R.

hamer

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Mín ( a key's ) heáfod is homere geþuren, sworfen feóle, Rä. 87, 1.

hú-lic

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K. 148, 14. predicative, of what sort Húlig is ðes? qualis est hic?, Mt. L. 8, 27. in indirect questions. qualifying a noun, what sort of Gecunnia and ásca huulic monn sé, Mt. L. 10, 14 marg. Gif hé wiste húlic wíf ( qualis mulier ) wére, Lk.

hwílum

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hwílum, In l. 3 for quandam l.
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Hwílon wacodon menn swá swá gewunelic is ofer án deád líc, Hml. S. 21, 289. of a future event, at some future time Hwílum (æt sumum cyrre, W. S.) gicerred aliquando conuersus Lk. R. L. 22, 32

láþ

(adj.)
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láþ, adj.
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Ic wát þæt nán swá gód man ne leofað swá hé is, þéh þe hé mé sié se láþesta, Ors. 5, 12 ; S. 244, 1. <b>I b.</b> antithetical to leóf :-- Leóf carus, láð odiosus Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 63, 64.

leóma

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Seó sunne hæfð ðreó ágennyssa on hire; óðer is se leóma oððe beorhtnys ǽfre of ðǽre sunnan, seó ðe onlíht ealne middangeard, Hml. Th. i. 282, 9. Þonne se móna beó full, and his leóma ealne middaneard oferscíne, Angl. viii. 323, 6.

med-micel

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add: [The Latin to Guthl. 5 is: Adsumta hordeacei panis particula; the diminutive particula seems to show that medmicel refers to quantity, not to quality, which beren hláf suggests, cf.

on-þracian

(v.)
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Þá begann se wer wépan anðracigende ðæs ungelimpes ( the untoward event (ungelimp) was the madness of the man's pious wife: the occasion of his fear on account of it is explained in Vit.