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byrst

(v.)
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bursts, breaks, fails; 3rd pers. pres. of berstan

byrst

(v.)
Grammar
byrst, he byrþ bearest, he bears, produces; facit, Mt. Bos. 7, 17;
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2nd and 3rd pers. pres. of beran

byrst

(n.)
Grammar
byrst, berst, es; m.
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A loss, defect; damnum, calamitas Gylde ðone byrst, ðe ðæt fýr ontende reddet damnum, qui ignem succenderit, Ex. 22, 6, 12: Ps. Th. 108, 18. We habbaþ fela byrsta gebiden multas calamitates sumus perpessi, Lupi Serm. i. 2; Hick. Thes. ii. 99, 21

byrþ

(n.)
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a birth

byrnan

Similar entry: birnan

byrst

(n.)
Grammar
byrst, a bristle.
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Substitute: e; f., in passage from Lch. read swínen . . . bristle, and add Byrst seta, An. Ox. 51, 1. Brysti setes, Txts. 109, 1132. Manu, brystae (biriste, Hpt. 33, 244, 5) juba, setes porci et leonis cabalique, 110, 1182. Hí heora flán him on áfæstnodon

byrst

Grammar
byrst, loss.
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Add: injury Se byrst wyrð gemǽne, Wlfst. 159, 3. Fela byrsta (bersta), 157, 1: 128, 4. failure, v. teám-byrst; cf. berstan, 2. a cash; cf. berstan, Byrstum creporibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 83

byrce

Grammar
byrce, barking.

Similar entry: birce

byrdan

(v.)
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to embroider

Linked entries: byrding borda

byrele

(n.)
Grammar
byrele, es; m.
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Add: <b>byrele,</b> an; f. Æt þám cnihte þe wæs þæs bisceopes byrele (byrle, v. l.) the bishop's cupbearer, Gr. D. 186, 22. Be ðám byrle þe ðone apostol eárplætte, Hml. Th. ii. 520, 13. Ǽlcan gesettan discðegne and gesettan biriele, C. D

byren

Similar entry: biren

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, tumba (An. Ox. 4346; Hpt. Gl. 507, 66) = byrigen
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or byrigels

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, (cf. byri-weard) a city.
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Dele e; f. acc. s. byrige. In the earlier MS. of the Chron. the form burg occurs in the passages; in the later the mutated form seems to have made its way into the nominative and accusative

byrig

(n.)
Grammar
byrig, a mulberry tree? In Ps. Spl. 77, 52 has the glosser read muros ? or moras ? (mora mansio, habitatio, Migne): in Lch. ii. 274, 17
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byrig eolonan might be a compound ?

byris

Similar entry: byres

byrdan

(v.)
Grammar
byrdan, to burden, v. ge-byrd; pp.

Linked entry: ge-byrd

-byrdan

(suffix)
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temerare

-byrdo

(suffix)

Similar entry: mis-byrdo

-byrgan

(suffix)
Grammar
-byrgan, (cf. byrga).

-byrst

(suffix)
Grammar
-byrst, -byrste
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-bristled, v. fiþer-byrst, fiþer-byrste, ge-byrst, ge-byrst

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