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weoruld-hád

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Add: a secular rank or order Þeán þe ús ná ne lyste tó þǽre sprǽce gecyrran, wé becumað genýdde tó ðǽre for gewille þára woruldháda (worldly men, cf. weoruld-mann; ), Gr. D. 209, 24

cniht-hád

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cniht-hád, <b>; I.</b>
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Þá gedwolan his cnihtháda errorespueritiae, Bd. 5, 14; Sch. 642, 9. Add

weal-hát

Similar entry: weall-hát

weall-hát

(adj.)
Grammar
weall-hát, adj.

Boiling hot red-hot

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Boiling hot, red-hot Ácéle ðú wealhát ísen ðonne hit furþum sié of fýre átogen on wíne, Lchdm. ii. 256, 15

Linked entries: weal-hát weall

fýr-hát

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Fýrh[át] torrida, An. Ox. 56, 203. Add

hád-bót

(n.)
Grammar
hád-bót, e; f.

A recompence, compensation, or atonement for injury done to persons in holy orders, or hád-brycesacri ordinis violati compensatio

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A recompence, compensation, or atonement for injury done to persons in holy orders, or hád-bryce; sacri ordinis violati compensatio, L. E. B. 4; Th. ii. 240, 17 : L. O. 12; Th. i. 182, 13

Linked entry: hád-bryce

hád-swápe

(n.)
Grammar
hád-swápe, -swǽpe, an; f.

A bridesmaidpronuba, paranymphusa chamber

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A bridesmaid; pronuba, paranymphus = παράνυμφos,Ælfc. Gl. 87; Som. 74, 56, 58; Wrt. Voc. 50, 38, 40 : 288, 80

Linked entry: heorp-swǽpe

hál-fæst

(adj.)
Grammar
hál-fæst, adj.

Salutaryqui potest sanare

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Salutary; qui potest sanare, Lye

hál-wende

(adj.)
Grammar
hál-wende, adj.

Conducive to health, salutary, healing, wholesome

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Conducive to health, salutary, healing, wholesome Ðes hálwenda hic saluber, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 18; Som. 9, 64. Ðín word is hálwende thy word is salutary, Ps. Th. 118, 103. Hálwoende ðín salutare tuum, Lk. Skt. Lind. 2, 30. Se middangeard wæs mannum hálwende

Linked entry: -wende

hál-wendlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
hál-wendlíc, adj.

Salutary, healthful

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Salutary, healthful Ðæs Hǽlendes tócyme wæs hálwendlíc ǽgðer ge mannum ge englum the Saviour's advent was salutary for both men and angels, Homl. Th. i. 214, 22: ii. 220, 20: 564, 7. Him se bisceop hálwendlíce geþeaht forþbrohte the bishop proposed to

ham-scyld

(n.)
Grammar
ham-scyld, [?]
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L. Eth. 32; Th. i. 12, 1, where see note. Leo in his work on Anglo-Saxon Names quotes a passage from Richthofen in which skeld occurs in the sense of fence; so that the crime referred to in the passage would be the breaking through the fence which surrounded

hám-sittende

(v.; part.)
Grammar
hám-sittende, part.

Sitting, dwelling at home, resident

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Sitting, dwelling at home, resident Wé beódaþ se mon se ðe his gefán hámsittendne wite ðæt hé ne feohte ǽrðam ðe hé him ryhtes bidde we command that the man who knows his foe to be dwelling at his home fight not before he demand justice, L. Alf. pol.

hám-sócn

(n.)
Grammar
hám-sócn, e; f.

Attack on a man's house; also the fine paid for such a breach of the peacethe crime of beating or assaulting a person within his own housean inroad or attack on one's homeattack on one's house

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Attack on a man's house; also the fine paid for such a breach of the peace. The following passage will illustrate the character of the offence Hamsocna, 'quod domus invasionem Latine sonat, fit pluribus modis, extrinsecus vel et intrinsecus accidenciis

Linked entry: sócn

hám-færeld

(n.)
Grammar
hám-færeld, es; n.

A going homea going home

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A going home Ðá Antigones ðæt ongeat ðá forlét hé ðæt setl; ac Ymenis him wénde fram Antigones hámfæreld micelra untreówþa when Antigonus heard that he abandoned the siege: but Eumenes anticipated for himself great treachery from Antigonus' going home

hál-wendnes

(n.)
Grammar
hál-wendnes, -ness, e; f.

Salubrity

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Salubrity Hibernia ge on brǽdo his stealles ge on hálwendnesse ge on smyltnysse lyfta is betere mycle ðonne Breotone land Hibernia et latitudine sui status et salubritate ac serenitate aerum multum Brittaniæ præstat, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 29

hám-bringan

(v.)
Grammar
hám-bringan, pp. -broht

To bring a wife home, marry

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To bring a wife home, marry Ne hí beóþ hámbroht ne geǽwnode neque nubentur, Mone Gl. 357

hám-cúþ

(adj.)
Grammar
hám-cúþ, adj.

Familiar

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Familiar Ða hámcúþa stówa familiaria loca, Mt. Kmbl. p. 11, 1

hám-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
hám-leás, adj.

Homeless

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Homeless Sceal hámleás hweorfan it must wander homeless, Exon. 110 a; Th. 420, 25; Rä. 40, 9

hám-scir

(n.)
Grammar
hám-scir, e; f.

The office of an ædileædilitas, officium ædile

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The office of an ædile; ædilitas, officium ædile, Cot. 71, Lye

hám-fæst

(adj.)
Grammar
hám-fæst, adj.

Resident, dwelling at home

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Resident, dwelling at home Hú mæg ðǽr ðonne ánes ríces monnes nama cuman ðonne ðǽr mon furðum ðære burge naman ne geheórþ ne ðære þeóde ðe he on hámfæst biþ how can one great man's name come there, when the name of the town even and of the people among