stunt
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Foolish, stupid Stunt stultus, Wrt. Voc. i. 47, 53. Stunt folc and unwís popule stulte et insipiens, Deut. 32, 6. Ic wæs stunt, and ic eom nú wís, Homl. Th. i. 433, 6. Ðú sprǽce swá swá án stunt wíf, ii. 452, 31. Ðú stunta fatue, Mt. Kmbl. 5, 22. For
-stæn
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stǽr
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Substitute for last passage On þis úre cyriclice stǽr, Bd. 4, 7; Sch. 385, 3. Add: :-- Ꝥ swíðe wel in þám hálgan and sóðan stǽre ( in sacra veracique historia) is áwriten, Gr. D. 245, 14
stott
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An inferior kind of horse Hér on stent gewriten hwæt man funde æt Eggemere syððan Cole hit lét. Ðæt is vii oxen and viii cý and iiii feldhrýþera and ii stottas ( equi uiles ), Nap. 56, 7
stræc
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Add Þá strecan uiolenti, i. fortes in forte, An. Ox. 1238
-styren
Icenhilde strǽt
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the old road running from the coast of Norfolk through Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire, thus connecting g Ðis synd ðá landgemǽre intó Uffentúne ( Upton in Berkshire ) . . . intó Ikenilde strǽte; of Ikenilde strǽt, C. D. v. 252, 30. Úp on
stæþ
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Út þurh þone streám on þæs cynges stæð; and swá andlang streámes, iv. 105, 13. On stæþena ófrum riparum marginibus, An. Ox. 4797. Staþa, 2, 387. Staðum ripis, 26, 41
stræc
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Hér man ýtte út Ælfgár eorl, ac hé com sóna inn ongeán mid strece þurh Gryffines fultum, Chr. 1058 ; Erl. 192, 36
án-stræc
Of one stretch ⬩ constant ⬩ resolute ⬩ determined ⬩ pertinax
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Of one stretch, constant, resolute, determined; pertinax Ða ánstræcan sint to monianne admonendi sunt pertinaces, Past. 42, 2; Hat. MS. 58a. 24
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stær
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A starling, a stare (the latter is the name used in some dialects. v. E. D. S. Pub. Bird Names, and Halliwell's Dict.) Staer sturnus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 17. Stær, i. 63, 6: turdus, 77, 30. Stær turdus, se máre stær turdella, 29, 40, 41. Etan gebrǽdne
stæþ
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a stay Stæð safon (in a list of nautical words. In a similar list stæg, q. v., occurs as the gloss),Wrt. Voc. i. 56, 63. Cf. stæððan, stæððig. (?)
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strop
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a strap, stropWrt. Voc. i. 56, 37. Strop vel árwiððe struppus
stæf
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Add Álecge þonne his wǽpna, and nime stæf him on hande, and gá bærfót, Ll. Th. ii. 286, 19. <b>I a.</b> an official staff, staff emblematical of office :-- Cóm ƀ and forneáh man sceolde tóbrecan his stæf (stef, v. l.), for ðan hé ne cúðe
stæg
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a pond Staeg vel meri stagnum, Txts. 98, 962. [From stagnum.]