healf-híd
A half-hide
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A half-hide Gif hé ne bið bútan tó healfhýda (healfre híde, v. l.) gerysen, Ll. Th. i. 188, 16
Linked entry: híd
heá-líce
on high ⬩ greatly ⬩ extremely ⬩ nobly ⬩ elaborately
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Add: in a local sense, on high Pilatus ásette ðis gewrit to ðǽre róde bufon Crístes heáfde heálíce, Hml. Th. ii. 254, 27. Stód se earming ætforan þám deófle þǽr hé heálíce sæt, Hml. S. 3, 372. Se wítga cwæð þæt áhæfen wǽren heálíce upp sunne and móna
Linked entry: heá-lic
hel-lic
of hell ⬩ infernal ⬩ diabolic
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Add: referring to classical mythology. Similar entries Cf. hell; I. 2 Þǽm hellicum gorgoneo (maculata cruore. Aid. 208, 21), Wrt. Voc. ii. 961 83: gorgoneis (molitur damna venenis, Aid. 166, n), 92, 66: 41, 44. of hell. Similar entries Cf. hell; II.
hen-fugol
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Sex gósfuglas, tén hennfuglas. C. D. i. 312, 9. Take here hæn-fugul in Dict. and add:
hér-lic
Laudable ⬩ noble
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Laudable, noble Hé hét Jóhannes, gódne pápan, heáfde beheáwon; næs ðæt hærlic dǽd. Met. i. 43. Næs þæt herlic dǽd ꝥ hine swelces gamenes gilpan lyste, 9, 18. Substitute:
híg-hús
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Héghús fenile, Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 22. Take here heg-hús (l. hég-) in Dict., and add
Linked entry: hég-hús
híg-síþe
A hay-scythe
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A hay-scythe Se Godes wer . . . bær on his eaxle his hégsíþe falcem fenariam in collo deferens, Gr. D. 37, 14
Linked entry: hég-síþe
heáh-altar
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A high altar Þæs heáhalteres ofergeweorc cibborium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 15. On Ses Petrus heáhaltare in his circan, Wlfst. 212, 3. Héhaltare, 214, 11. [Icel. há-altari.] Cf. heáh-wígbed, heáh-weófod
Linked entries: altar heáh-weofod
heáh-biscop
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Add: of a Christian priest Sæt se arcebisceop Augustinus . . . Cwæð hé se heáhbisceop tó him, Bd. 2, 2; ch. 118, 7. Þæs heáhbyscpes (þæs heán biscopes, v. l.) leomu pontificis summi (Gregory) membra, 2, 1 ; Sch. 107, 23. of one not Christian Se heáhbiscop
heáh-clif
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Add: — Swá bið eác gelíce be þám heáclifum þonne hí hlifiað feor úp ofer þá óðre eorðan, Wlfst. 262, 10. Cf. heáh-torr
heáh-cræft
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Add: — Ðerh héhcraeft, Txts. 151, 4
heáh-cræftiga
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a master-builder, an architect Bæd se cyning hine ꝥ hé him onsende sumne heáhcræftigan stángeweorces. . . se abbud sende him cræftige wyrhtan architectos sibi mitti petiit. . . abba misit architectos, Bd. 5, 21 ; Sch. 678, 1-17. Heáhcræftegan (-igan,
heáh-ealdormann
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Add: — Valerianus se heáhealdorman (patricius), Gr. D. 340, 34
Linked entry: ealdor-mann
heáh-engel
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Add: — Gabrihel, heofones heáhengel, Cri. 202. Heáhengles tíd, Men. 177. Fæder onsende heáhengel his, 50. Heáhengla brego, Cri. 403. Þurh eall engla wered and heáhengla, Ll. Lbmn. 413, 9