tǽsan
To tear to pieces, pull to pieces, tease wool, tear a person's flesh with a weapon, wound
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To tear to pieces, pull to pieces, tease wool, tear a person's flesh with a weapon, wound Ic tótere oððe pluccige oððe tǽse (wulle added in MS. W.) carpo, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 4; Zup. 170, 13. Carpsit, discerpsit, trahit, evellit, vel tǽst, Wülck.
tealt
in a physical sense, unsteady ⬩ in a figurative sense, unstable, not to be relied on, untrustworthy, precarious
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in a physical sense, unsteady Gif hí sculun néðan on nacan tealtum, and se brimhengest brídles ne gýmeþ (cf. The floating vessel ... Rode tilting o'er the waves, Milton, P. L. xi. 747), Runic pm.
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þeód-wrecan
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The parallel between full- and þeód- might be further illustrated from compound adjectives in Icelandic, e.g. full-glaðr and þjóð-glaðr, full-góðr and þjóð-góðr), Beo. Th. 2561; B. 1278
þri-líðe
Having three months named Líða
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Having three months named Líða, a term applied to the year in which a fourth summer month was intercalated; the passage in which the Latinized form of the word occurs is as follows: Quotiescunque communis esset annus, ternos menses solares singulis anni
un-áræfnedlíc
Intolerable ⬩ impossible to bear
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Þurh ða lond ðe ða unárefnedlícan cyn nædrena in wǽron in execrabilia serpentum genera, Nar. 6, 22
wyrpel
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on feterum fiþrum dealne (cf. the description of a falcon's equipment given in a M.
wudu-rǽden
Woodcutting ⬩ right of cutting timber in a wood
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Heó hæbbe ða wudurǽddenne in ðæm wuda ðe ða ceorlas brúcaþ, and éc ic hire léte tó ðæt ceorla gráf, ii. 100, 14
brýd-lác
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S. 7, 61. in pl. marriage ceremony, nuptials Is ǽlcum preóste forboden, þæt hí beón ne móton on þá wísan, þe hí ǽr wǽran æt þám brýdlácum, þǽr man óðre síðe wífað where a man marries a second time, priests are forbidden to attend in the way they did
bucca
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Cervus vel eripes heort vel bucca (in the margin hircacervus bucheort); this is the proper reading, not that given in Wrt. Voc. i. 22, 63. v. Angl. viii. 450. Hí onsægdon deófle, swá heora þeáw wæs, buccan ( caprae ) heáfod, Gr. D. 232, 25.
eást-dǽl
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Dioclitianus in eástdǽle middangeardes in oriente, Bd. 1, 6; Sch. 18, 14. Cómon fram eástdǽle middangeardes þrý tungelwítegan . . . 'Wé gesáwon his steorran on eástdǽle,' Hml. Th. i. 78, 4-7. Of eástdǽle, Chr. 2; P. 4, 28.
ge-lóman
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Hé hét weorpan íserne gelóman in þæs mynstres wyrtgeard, þá iserngelóman gewunelice naman wé hátaþ spadan and spitelas, 201, 19. in a collective sense, furniture Gelóma suppellex (cuncta culinae suppellex, Aid. 66, 15), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 17
ge-rinnan
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Altithrono laetosque in sede polorum, Dóm.
ge-drípan
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Take here <b>ge-drypan</b> (l. ge-drýpan) in Dict., and add: to cause to fall in drops Þæt Lazarus mid hys fingre hym gedrípte weteris on þá tungan, Solil. H. 67, 29.
heáfod-segn
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Perhaps the poet of the Exodus had the same kind of ensign in mind where he says that the tribe of Judah, ' '
síde
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Add On sídum húses þínes in lateribus domus tuae, Ps. L. 127, 3. <b>II a.</b> the side of a hill :-- Of þǽre wídgyllan sídan þæs muntes e devexo montis latere, Gr. D. 112, 19. In þæs heán muntes sídan, 121, 14.
út-fær
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quid in tribus illis egressionibus intelligendum est, in quibus praecipitur a Domino Abrahae ut egrediatur de terra sua et de cognatione sua et de domo patris sui?, Angl. vii. 40, 389
bréman
celebrated ⬩ To celebrate, solemnise, make famous, have in honour ⬩ celebrare, honorare
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To celebrate, solemnise, make famous, have in honour; celebrare, honorare Ðæt hie ðæt hálige gerýne bréman mǽgen that they may celebrate the holy mystery [i. e. the sacrament ], L. E. I. 4; Th. ii. 404, 27.
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horu
Dirt, filth, foulness ⬩ dirt ⬩ limus, cenum, lutum, palustre
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On his blóde áþwogen fram synna horwum washed in his blood from the impurities of sins, Homl. Swt. 11, 297. Horewum, Homl. Th. ii. 56, 8
á-þráwan
to twist ⬩ twine ⬩ curl ⬩ to twist ⬩ give a different direction to a moving body
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. ¶ for a proposed emendation to áþrowen in An. 1427 Similar entries v. á-dreópan in Dict
á-wreón
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On áwrigenre béc in apocalypsi, An. Ox. 5178. ¶ in the Lindisfarne Gospels the verb means to cover:-- Wé áwrigon cooperuimus, Mt. 25, 38. Áwrigon gié operuistis, 43. Áwrigon uelauerunt, Lk. 22, 64. Áwuriáð operite, 23, 30. Áwriá operit, 8, 16.