ryne
A course, run, running, ⬩ an orbit ⬩ course, uninterrupted progress ⬩ a course, water-course, a flow, flux of blood ⬩ course, cycle, lustre ⬩ course of life
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Bi his blodi rune þet ron inne monie studen, O. E. Homl. i. 207, 10. Þe stronge rune of þat blodi stream, Marh. 7, 12. Þer is mest neod hold hwon þe tunge is o rune, A. R. 74, 21
Linked entry: rine
un-dolfen
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Not dug Hí ádulfon gehwylcne dǽl þæs wyrt-geardss þæs þe þær ǽr undolfen wæs, Gr. D. 202, 4
CANDEL
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Hádre scíneþ ródores candel the sun [the candle of the firmament] serenely shines, Beo. Th. 3148; B. 1572. Candeles leóma the light of a candle; lampas, Ælfc. Gl. 67; Som. 69, 88; Wrt. Voc. 41, 41.
Linked entry: condel
BEÁM
a tree ⬩ arbor ⬩ the tree ⬩ cross ⬩ patibulum ⬩ crux ⬩ a column ⬩ pillar ⬩ columna ⬩ wood ⬩ a ship ⬩ lignum ⬩ navis ⬩ a BEAM ⬩ splint ⬩ post ⬩ a stock of a tree ⬩ trabs ⬩ stipes ⬩ A ray of light ⬩ a sun-BEAM ⬩ radius ⬩ a trumpet ⬩ tuba
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a tree; arbor Se beám bude wyrda geþingu the tree boded the councils of the fates, Cd. 202; Th. 250, 11; Dan. 545 : 23; Th. 30, 18; Gen. 468 : 24; Th. 31, 1; Gen. 478.
ge-leornian
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Siþþan hé þá geleornod hæfde, Ors. 6, 12; S. 266, 22. Þá hé þás bóc hæfde geleornode, Bt. proem.; F. viii. 8. to acquire skill in the doing of something by study, thought, instruction, &c., to learn to do. with acc.
ge-wald
Power ⬩ mastery ⬩ sway
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Power, mastery, sway Ða Denescan áhton wæl-stówe gewald the Danes had the mastery of the battle-place, Chr. 833; Th. 116, 7, col. 1: Cd. 214; Th. 268, 15; Sat. 55
á-hlýtran
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Áhlýttre þá buteran, 308, 28. Seáw wel áhlýtred (-ttred, v. l. ), i. 214, 19. Þý áhlýtrede elucubrate, Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 15. Ðá áhlýtredan merulenti, 79, 75: 56, 69
ge-trumian
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Þú getrumast convalescas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 75. Hé þǽre ealdan untrumnesse getrumad wæs ueterno infirmitatis discusso, Bd. 5, 5; Sch. 572, 10. reflex. Þá getrumade ic mé and gestrangad wæs convalui, 5, 6; Sch. 581, 11
Sciþþisc
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Þá Scyððiscan þeóda ofslógan úre fela, Hml. S. 7, 345. ¶ the definite form used substantively :-- Ðá Scyðiscan wunnon wið hine, 300. Siððan hé ðá Scyððiscan oferwinð, 309
holm-mægen
The might of the ocean, ⬩ the ocean
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The might of the ocean, the ocean, Exon. 101 a; Th. 382, 10; Rä. 3, 9
Brondingas
The Brondings ⬩ populi nomen
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The Brondings, supposed to be the inhabitants of the island Brännö, lying off the coast of West Gothland in the Cattegat; populi nomen Breca gesóhte swǽsne éðel, lond Brondinga Breca sought his own country, the land of the Brondings, Beo.
ge-restan
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Th. 18, 16. where labour is desisted or refrained from Oðer. resten-dæg . . . is þæt éce líf, . . . on þám wé us gerestað écelíce, Hml, Th. ii. 208, 6. He hine gereste on þone seofoðan dæg. Ll.
mǽþ-líc
Moderate ⬩ in accordance with due measure ⬩ proper to a person's degree ⬩ having regard to others
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S. 72; Th. i. 414, 4.
Linked entry: mǽþ-full
alan
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Dele In the passage there given the glosser seems to have thought that parent might be from either of the two verbs parĕre, parēre, and has glossed it by foedað ł alaþ ł adeáuæð: the Rushworth gloss has only foedað ł aleð
dirige
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The first word of the antiphon (v. Ps. 5, 8) at Matins in the Office of the Dead, used as a name for that service Dirige for forþférdum vigilia pro defunctis, Angl. xiii. 433, 975: 444, 1131. [v. N. E. D. dirge.]
boda
a messenger, ambassador, herald, apostle, angel ⬩ nuntius, legatus, præco, apostolus, angelus ⬩ a foreboder, prophet ⬩ propheta, vates ⬩ a messenger
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Me ðes boda sægde wǽrum wordum this messenger told me in cautious words, Cd. 32; Th. 42, 30; Gen. 680: 32; Th. 43, 6; Gen. 686: 33; Th, 45, 11; Gen. 725.
a-hýdan
To hide ⬩ abscondere ⬩ occuhare
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Rómáne gesomnodon al ða goldhord and sume on eorþan ahýddon the Romans collected all the treasures and hid some in the earth, Chr. 418 ; Th. 18, 6, col. 1
ge-ýwan
To shew ⬩ manifest ⬩ reveal ⬩ ostendĕre ⬩ præbēre ⬩ manifestāre ⬩ monstrāre
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Me ðín dóhtor hafaþ geýwed orwyrðu thy daughter has shewn me indignity, Exon. 66 b; Th. 246, 29; Jul. 69: Elen. Kmbl. 1570; El. 787
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of-healdan
to withhold, keep back, retain ⬩ to retain
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Th. 427, 30
húslian
To housel
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To housel, to administer the sacrament Hý mihton wel habban wíf on ðam dagum forðan ðe hý nǽfre ne mæssodon ne menn ne húslodon they might well have wives in those days for they never celebrated mass nor administered the Eucharist to men, L. Ælfc.