be-cirran
to turn round ⬩ about ⬩ to go round ⬩ pass by ⬩ avoid ⬩ to turn ⬩ pervert ⬩ seduce ⬩ to beguile ⬩ deceive ⬩ to get round a person
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and útan becierð (declinat); ðæt is ðæt hit ðá ungedónan foreðoncelíce becierre, swá se stióra déð; sume ýða hé becerð mld ðý scipe, Past. 433, 4-7.
blác
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Ðæt bleoh ðæs welhǽwnan iacintes bið betera ðonne ðæs blácan carbuncules coerulei coloris hyacinthus praefertur pallenti carbunculo, Past. 411, 29. (Cf. seó bláce blegen carbunculus. v. blegen) Add
frum-geweorc
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A first building Fram Móyses gebyrdtíde þá forð tó Salamones gebyrde and his mǽran frumgeweorces ðæs temples, Angl. xi. 9, 11. Oð ðæt frumgeweorc ðæs temples ( the building of the first temple ), 4, 22
wilnung
Desire
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Desire Úþwitan secgaþ ðæt sió sáwul hæbbe ðrió gecynd. Án ðara gecynda is ðæt heó biþ wilnigende... Twá ðara gecynda habbaþ nétenu ; ... óþer ðara is wilnung ... Seó gesceádwísnes sceal wealdan ðære wilnunga, Bt. 33, 4; Fox 132, 3-10: Met. 20, 186.
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a-hycgan
To devise ⬩ search ⬩ invent ⬩ excogitare ⬩ perscrutari ⬩ invenire
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Bæd him ðæs rǽd ahicgan besought them to devise counsel for this, Cd. 94; Th. 122, 24; Gen. 2031: 178; Th. 224, 3; Dan. 130. Hie ahogodan heoro they invented the sword, Exon. 92 a; Th. 346, 9; Gn. Ex. 202
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bén-tíðe
having obtained a prayer ⬩ benefitted ⬩ favoured ⬩ successful ⬩ precum vel supplications compos ⬩ fortunatus ⬩ accepting a prayer ⬩ exorable ⬩ gracious ⬩ deprecabilis
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having obtained a prayer, benefitted, favoured, successful; precum vel supplications compos fortunatus Hie ðǽr, Godes þances, swíðe béntíðe [béntiðige, col. 2; béntigðe, p. 153, 10, cols. 1, 2] wurdon æfter ðam geháte there, God be thanked, they were
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sund-corn
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Wið ðæt stánas on blǽdran wexen, genim ðás wyrte, Lchdm. i. 212, 7-11 (see the plate at the beginning of the volume). Sundcornes leáf, ii. 342, 9. Gif men weaxan stánas on ðære blǽdran, wyl sundcorn on ealaþ, 320, 6.
þafung
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Ðú wéndest ðæt seó weord ðás woruld wende búton Godes geþeahte and his þafunge, Bt. 5, 1; Fox 8, 32. Ne mæg se deófol mannum derian bútan Godes ðafunge, Homl. Skt. i. 17, 196. Þet weas mid Earnulfes þafunge (geþafunge, MS. A.), Chr. 887; Erl. 87. 3
ymb-hón
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Healfnacode on hiora líchaman, búton ðæt hig wǽron mid riftnm ymbhangene. Homl. Ass. 202, 220. Seó fone is mid .xii. godwebbum útan ymbhangen, Salm. Kmbl. p. 152, 17
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ge-trahtnian
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., and add Manega men wénað ꝥ þes middaneard scule standan on six þúsend wintrum, for ðan þe God gescóp ealle þing binnan six dagum; ac þaet getæl wíse witan on óðre wísan getrahtnedon, Wlfst. 244, 4.
ofer-geótan
to cover by pouring, to suffuse
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to cover by pouring, to suffuse Ðara deófla þeóstro hé oforgeát mid his ðæm scínendan leóhte he overcame the darkness of the devils by pouring upon it his shining light Blickl. Homl. 85, 8.
trahtnung
Exposition ⬩ explanation ⬩ comment
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Exposition, explanation, comment Uton nú fón on ðæs godspelles trahtnunge ðǽr wé hit forléton let its resume the exposition of the gospel, where we left it, Homl. Th. i. 114, 35: ii. 72, 22.
bæc-ern
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Ðæs bæcernes tácen is þæt mon mid bám sámlocone handum tógædere, swilce þú dáh brǽdan wille, Tech. ii. 128, 4. Kycenan and bæcernes (pistrinae), Angl. xiii. 441, 1087. On kycenon oðþe on mynstres bæcerne, R. Ben. 71, 18. Add
wóh
Wrong ⬩ perversity ⬩ injustice ⬩ error ⬩ wrongfully ⬩ wrongly
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Ða gódan ðæt gód on riht sécaþ, and ða yfelan on wóh, Bt. 36, 3; Fox 178, 6
hrepian
To touch ⬩ treat
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God bebeád ús ðæt we ðæt treów ne hrepodon præcepit nobis deus ne tangeremus illud [lignum ], Gen. 3, 3
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big-spell
A by-history, a parable, fable, example, proverb, story ⬩ parabola, fabula, exemplum, proverbium, narratio
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Ealle ðás þing se Hǽlend spræc mid bigspellum to ðám weredum; and nán þing ne spræc he bútan bigspellum hæc omnia locutus est Iesus in parabolis ad turbas; et sine parabolis non loquebatur eis, Mt. Bos. 13, 34, 35: Ps. Lamb. 48, 5.
ídel-ness
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Nú is se tíma ꝥ ðú forlǽte þíne ýdelnesse and lác ðám godum geoffrige, Hml. S. 22, 213. lack of result, ineffectiveness. Cf. <b>II, II</b> a α Hí ealne dæg mid ídelnesse ( frustra ) wunnon, Gr. D. 250, 21.
be-tweohs
between ⬩ among ⬩ between ⬩ among
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Add: with dat. between, local Segor stód on midwege betweox ðǽm muntum and ðǽm merscum, Past. 399, 13.
Æl-miht
Almighty ⬩ omnipotens
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Almighty; omnipotens Wiston Drihten ælmihtne they knew the Almighty Lord, Cd. 182 ; Th. 228, 1, note a: Dan. 195
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býgend-líc
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Flexible, pliable; flexilis, flexibilis Býgendlíc on ðám geþeódnessum his liða flexibilibus artuum compagibus, Bd. 4, 30; S. 608, 37
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