fyrd-sócn
The seeking of the army ⬩ military service ⬩ mīlĭtia
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The seeking of the army, military service; mīlĭtia Ðæt hit sý gefreód ealra þeówdóma, búton fyrdsócne, and burhgeweorce and bryggeweorce that it shall be freed from all services, except military service, castle-building, and bridge-work, Th. Diplm.
inne-fare
The intestines
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The intestines Wið wambe cóðe and wið inneforan sáre for dysentery, L. M. 2, 30; Lchdm. ii. 228, 22. Sió filmen biþ þeccende ða wambe and ða innefaran the film covers the stomach and the inwards, 2, 36; Lchdm. ii. 242, 17
teóðung-georn
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Sedulous in paying tithes Ælmysgeorn and cyricgeorn and teóþunggeorn tó Godes cyricean and earmum mannum eleemosynas libenter erogans, et ad ecclesiam libenter frequens, et sedulo decimas erogans ecclesiae Dei ac pauperibus, L. Ecg.
feólag-scipe
Fellowship ⬩ partnership
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Fellowship, partnership Ic wille þat mín and Ulfketels félageschipe stonde . . . and Ulfketel hauið leyd þerwith four marc, Cht. Th. 573, 25.
glíw-stól
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., and add: A seat of music and song (cf. þǽr (at Hrothgar's court) wæs gidd and gleó, B. 2105; cf. also seledreám), a joyous home (cf. hleów-stól for similar compound)
tó-beátan
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ꝥ scip becóm tó Ostican swíðe tóbrocen and tó-beáten fram þám ýþum ( fluctibus quassata ), Gr. D. 347, 7. Ðá cempan hine lange swungon ... þá cómon his geféran and fundon hine licgendne on blódigum limum and tóbeátenum líchaman, Hml. S. 31, 981. Add
þegnest
Service
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Service Þæs ilcan géres fór Aldréd biscop tó Colne ofer sǽ, and wearð ðær underfangen mid mycclan weorðscipe, and him geaf ǽgðer þéneste ge se biscop on Colone and se cásere, Chr. 1054; Erl. 189, 25. (This passage occurs in only one MS.)
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Engle
Angles ⬩ the English
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Englum and Sæxum, 1065; P. 193, 34. the English Engle (Myrce and West-Seaxe, v. l.) and Dene gefuhton, Chr. 910; P. 94, 33. Dene and Engle wurdon sammǽle, 1018; P. 155,14.
ge-hergian
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Hí námon menn and swá hwæt swá hí findan mihtan, and gewendon him tó Baldewines land, and sealdon þǽr þet hí gehergod hæfdon, Chr. 1046; P. 167, I. Ealle þá men þe hié geher-gead hæfden Ors. 4, 6 ; S. 178, 13.
drohtnung
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and add Þæt þú fare tó wéstene þǽr ðǽr nánes mannes drohtnung nis ( where nobody lives ), Hml. Th. i. 466, 32. Drohtnunge religionis, i. conversationis, An. Ox. 2567. Se gewuna þisse hálgan drohtnunge ( conversationis ), R. Ben. 5, 18.
ge-cneordlǽcan
to study, endeavour earnestly ⬩ to study, examine carefully ⬩ to study, apply oneself to learning
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Ox. 241. to study, examine carefully Gecneordlǽcaþ scrutamini, An.
twisprǽcness
Falseness in speech ⬩ detraction
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Ic ondette æfste, twysprǽcnesse and leásunge, Anglia xi. 98, 26. Ic andette tǽlnessa and twisprǽcnessa, leásunga and unriht gilp, L. de Cf. 7; Th. ii. 262, 27
lǽr-gedéfe
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In this passage Ettmüller and Grein take lǽrgedéfe as an adj. but lǽr may well be, as Thorpe takes it, the imperat. of lǽran, which verb naturally accompanies leornian
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campung
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Fighting, contest Campung certatio, An. Ox. 7, 346. Compung concertatio, Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 40. Ic mid þín wǽpnum getrymed on þínum féþan fæste stande and for þínre campunga ( a better reading is: for ðé campige. v. Bl. N. 5, 40), Bl. H. 225, 34
ge-fýlan
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Speccan blæccan gefýlede (saecularis) scoriae atramento foedatos, An. Ox. 653. Add
ge-þwinglod
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Sax. bi-þwingan), and having suffix -el denoting an implement, might be inferred with meaning 'band' (cf. þwang); then ge-þwinglod might mean 'provided with a þwingel,' 'bound up.' Add
rím-áþ
An oath taken by a person and by the number of persons he brings with him as compurgators
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An oath taken by a person and by the number of persons he brings with him as compurgators L. Ath. i. 9 ; Th. i. 204, 15. (cf. the expressions in Norse law tylptar-, séttar-eiðr, oaths in which twelve, six persons respectively took part)
láð-spell
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A painful, grievous story Hié ealle ðǽr ofslógon búton ánum se ðæt láðspel æt hám gebodade omnes ibidem trucidati sunt; uno tantum ad enunciandam cladem reservato, Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 72, 19: Andr. Kmbl. 2160; An. 1080: Exon. 52 b; Th. 182, 29; Gú. 1317
Fresisc
Of or belonging to Friesland ⬩ Frisian ⬩ Frīsĭcus
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Ðǽr wearþ ofslægen Lucumon, and ealra monna, Fresiscra and Engliscra, lxii there was slain Lucumon, and of all the men, Frisian and English, sixty-two, Chr. 897; Erl. 96, 4
hrot
scum ⬩ mucus
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Thick fluid, scum, mucus Gewyrc ðé lǽcedóm ðus of ecede and of hunige, genim ðæt séleste hunig dó ofer heorþ áseóþ ðæt weax and ðæt hrot of make yourself a medicine thus of vinegar and honey; take the best honey, put it over the fire, seethe [strain
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