séfte
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</b> in a bad sense, luxurious, voluptuous, effeminate :-- Ðý ne sceolde nán wís man wilnian séftes lífes gif hé ǽnigra cræfta récþ neque enim vos in provectu positi virtutis, diffluere deliciis, et emarcescere voluptate venistis, Bt. 40, 3 ; Fox
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stæl-wirðe
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A man þat es yhung and light, Be he never swa stalworth and wyght, Pr. C. 689. Cf. stanndenn stallwurrþlig ȝæn þe deofless wille, Orm. 1194. Louerd mi stalwurnesse (stalworthhede, other MSS.) Domine, virtus mea, Ps. 17, 2.] Cf. nyt-wirðe
þurh-faran
to go through or over ⬩ to traverse ⬩ pertransire ⬩ To pass ⬩ to pierce ⬩ pass through ⬩ to pass beyond ⬩ transcend ⬩ to penetrate
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On anlícnysse þurhfærþ man in imagine pertransit homo, 38, 9: 102, 15. Ðǽr scipu þurhfaraþ (ðorhfearaþ, Surt.) illic naves pertransibunt, 103, 26. of a weapon, to pierce, pass through His swurd ðíne sáwle þurhfærþ, Lk. Skt. 2, 35.
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Wóden
Woden
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Wyrm com snícan, tóslát hé man ; ðá genam Woden viiii. wuldortánas, slóh ðá ða næddran, ðæt heó on viiii tófleáh, Lchdm. iii. 34, 23. ¶ Woden is found in most of the genealogies of the old English royal families Ðæs (Wihta) fæder wæs Wóden nemned, of
be-ginnan
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Gif hwá útácymen man beginne tó þénienne. swelte hé deáðe externus, qui ad ministrandum accesserit, morietur, Num. 3, 10. <b>II a.</b> to attack :-- Ymbe þreó mónað þæs þe hié mon ǽr ongon (began, v.l. ), Ors. 5, II; S. 238, II
ge-forþian
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'Man ofsleá Amanes mágas.' Þis wearð geforþod, Hml. A. JOi, 312. On þone seofoðan dæg ðú gerestest. Þá wæs geforðad ðín fægere weorc, Btwk. 198, 8
hǽþen-scipe
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Ǽghwylcne hǽðenscype wordes and weorces forhogie man ǽfre, id est idolatria et ueneficia, . . .
hǽmed
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Ælþeódige mæn gif hió hiora hǽmed rihtan nyllað, 38, Ceorlisc man.. . ꝥ hǽmed mid hreówe forlǽte, 7. Þá forbodenan gyfta ł hǽmeda uetitos hymeneos, An. Ox. 1781. Hémedo, Txts. 69, 1036. Hémeða, Wrt. Voc. ii. 78, 29. Wífþing, gifta, hǽmed, 43, 13
reáfian
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Gif hwylc man reáfige óðerne æt his dehter si homo quis alterum filia sua spoliaverit, Ll. Th. ii. 208, 7. 2.
saltere
a stringed musical instrument, a psaltery ⬩ the book of Psalms ⬩ a psalter, ⬩ to sing psalms
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Grn. 7, 26. a psalter, a service-book containing the book of Psalms divided into certain portions for Matins, and the Hours, so as to be gone through in the course of the week :-- Hé (the mass-priest)] saltere swá man singþ on Róme, Chart.
HEÁWAN
To HEW, cut, strike, smite
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To HEW, cut, strike, smite [with a sharp weapon] Gif mon óðres wudu heáweþ unáliéfedne if a man cut another's wood without leave, L. Alf. pol. 12; Th. i. 70, 4.
losian
To perish ⬩ be lost ⬩ stray ⬩ escape
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Gif hwylc mann hæfþ hund sceápa and him losaþ án of ðám ... ða nigon and hundnigontig ðe ná ne losedon si fuerint alicui centum oves et erraverit una ex eis ... nonaginta novem, quæ non erraverunt, Mt. Kmbl.18, 12, 13: Homl. Th. i. 338, 27.
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wræc-síþ
travel in a foreign land ⬩ peregrination ⬩ pilgrimage ⬩ exile ⬩ banishment ⬩ misery ⬩ wretchedness
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travel in a foreign land, peregrination, pilgrimage Hí noldon geþafian ðæt swá getogen mann (Gregory) ða burh forléte, and swá fyrlen wræcsíð genáme, Homl. Th. ii. 122, 15.
niht
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Add Gyf ǽnig mann wǽre áne niht on helle, Wlfst. 146, 26. used to mark an occasion or a point of time Þǽre nihte þe hié ꝥ fæsten gefæst hæfdon, Bl. H. 205, 34. On þǽre æfterfylgendan niht, 215, 15.
rihtung
direction ⬩ guidance ⬩ correction ⬩ setting right ⬩ correction ⬩ reproof ⬩ a direction ⬩ rule ⬩ regularis
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Ðonne mann wísdóm sprecþ manegum tó þearfe and tó rihtinge Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 28. Rihtinga directiones, Ps. Lamb. 98, 4. correction setting right Rihtingc correctio, 96, 2.
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leng
Length ⬩ height ⬩ stature
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Length [of time or space], height, stature Mannes leng statura, Ælfc. Gr. 43; Som. 45, 4. Nǽfre ne sý se hálga eásterdæg gemǽrsod ǽr ðan ðe ðæs dæges lenge [lencge MS. P; lenge, MS.
ge-samnung
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assembling :-- Þæt wé sendan and wilnian fultum be swá manegum mannum swá ús cinelic þince . . . ꝥ þám forworhtum mannum beó þe mára ege for úre gesomnunge (or under ), Ll. Th.
wénan
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H. 24, 18. (20) with complement :-- Hé wæs hæfd and wéned fram mannum mycelre árfæstnysse magnae aestimationis habebatur, Gr. D. 326, 24. Add Mé sceamað nú þæt ic wénde þæs ðe hyt næs I am ashamed that I supposed what was not, Solil.
ge-wyrcan
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His geworhtne wine the man he had made his friend Seef. 115. of mental or moral constitution, to dispose, constitute Yrtacus, yfele geworht man, Hml. Th. ii. 476, 18.