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a-fíndan

(v.)
Grammar
a-fíndan, p. -fánd, pl. -fúndon; pp. -fúnden

To finddetectfeelexperienceinveniredeprehendereexperirisentire

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Ic afínde experior, Ælfc. Gr. 31; Som. 35, 55. Ðis wíf wæs afúnden on unrihton hǽmede hæc mulier deprehensa est in adulterio, Jn. Bos. 8, 4: Bt. 35, 5 ; Fox 162, 31

Linked entry: a-fúnden

arce-diácon

(n.)
Grammar
arce-diácon, archi-diácon, ærce-diácon, es; m.

An ARCHDEACONa bishop's vicegerentarchidiāconus

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Arcediácon archidiaconus, Ælfc. Gl. 69; Wrt. Voc. 42, 27

ceder-beám

(n.)
Grammar
ceder-beám, cæder-beám, es; m.

A cedar-treecedrus = κέδρος

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A cedar-tree; cedrus = κέδρος Cederbeám cedrus, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 41; Wrt. Voc. 33. 38: 80, 17. Libanes cederbeámas ða ðú gesettest cedri Libani quas plantasti, Ps. Th. 103, 16.

Linked entry: cæder-beám

efesian

(v.)
Grammar
efesian, efosian, efsian; p. ode; pp. od [efes the eaves, q. v.]

To cut in the form of eaves, to round, to shear in rŏtundum attondēre, tondēre

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Ic efesige oððe ic scere scép oððe hors tondeo ŏves aut ĕquos, Ælfc. Gr. 26, 6; Som. 29, 9

Linked entries: efosian efsian

full-fremednes

(n.)
Grammar
full-fremednes, -ness, -nyss, e; f.

Fulfilmentperfectionperfectio

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Ðæt he fullfremednysse hæbbe that it may have fulfilment, Ælfc. Gr. 21; Som. 23, 27

post

(n.)
Grammar
post, es; m.
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Voc. i. 47, 20 : postis, 86, 29 : Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28; Som. 11, 45. Under ðám sylfum postum sub ipsos postes, 47; Som. 48, 17. Hé áhéng ðæt dust on ǽnne heáhne post ... Ðæt hús wearð ðá forburnen búton ðam ánum poste, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 101, 186-191

betwyx-aworpennyss

(n.)
Grammar
betwyx-aworpennyss, e; f.

An interjectioninterjectio

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Heu denotes a soreness of mind, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 3, 55

siftan

(v.)
Grammar
siftan, p. te
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To sift, pass through a sieve Ic syfte cribro, Ælfc. Gr. 24 ; Zup. 137, 10. Siftiþ (-it, -id) crebrat, Txts. 55, 596. Syfteþ, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 44. Sift, 136, 61. Swá swá mon melo sift (seft. Cott. MS.), Bt. 34, 11 ; Fox 152, 2.

Linked entry: a-siftan

Sunnan-úhta

(n.)
Grammar
Sunnan-úhta, an; m.
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Ælfc. P. 44; Th. ii. 384, 4

weorod-ness

(n.)
Grammar
weorod-ness, e; f.
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Sweetness Ðeós werodnys (weorodnes, v.l.) hoc nectar, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 16 ; Zup. 42, 7. Weorodnyss dulcedo, Hy. Surt. 98, 17. Werednes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 142, 10. Werodnes, Ps. Lamb. 30, 20.

of-drǽd

(adj.; part.)
Grammar
of-drǽd, of-drǽdd,

terrified, afraid

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Hé ofdrǽdd wæs for his morþdǽdum, Ælfc. T. Grn. 18, 38. Hié beóþ mid ðæm ymbeþonce ofdrǽdde, Past. 35, 2; Swt. 238, 7: Homl. Skt. i. 23, 300

ofer-fleón

(v.)

to fly over

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to fly over Ic oferfleó supervolo, Ælfc. Gr. 47; Som. 48, 46. [In Beo.

þrowian

(v.)
Grammar
þrowian, (þrówian?), þreowian (þreówian?); p. ode

To sufferto suffer as opposed to to actto suffer what is painfulto suffer martyrdomto make to sufferto crucifyto suffer for somethingpay foratone for

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To suffer Ic ðrowige patior, Ælfc. Gr. 29; Zup. 286, 9. to suffer as opposed to to act Verbum ys word ... getácniende oððe sum ðing tó dónne oððe sum ðing tó þrowigenne oððe náðor, Ælfc. Gr. 19; Zup. 119, 10. to suffer what is painful.

Linked entry: a-þrówian

hangian

(v.)
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Wearh sceal hangian, fægere ongildan ꝥ hé ǽr fácen dyde manna cynne, Gn. C. 55. Hongende crucifixum, Lk. p. 11, 8. to be attached, hold fast þá spácan sticaþ, óþer ende on þǽre felge . . .

winter

(n.)
Grammar
winter, es; m. (in pl. a neuter form wintru occurs, as well as masculine wintras, winter: the dat. sing. wintra is a trace of earlier u-stem declension).

a season of the yearwinterwintry weathercolda year

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Hú seó ádl ǽr feówertigum oððe fíftigum wintra on men ne becume how the disease does not attack a man before he is forty or fifty, Lchdm. ii. 284, 10, 20. Ne mæg weorþan wís wer ǽr hé áge wintra dǽl in woruldríce, Exon. Th. 290, 14; Wand. 65.

be-gán

(v.)

passageto go roundto reach by goingcome uponget atto gopass byto gocomegetto pass byTo come byget atto comefall to one's lotto fallget into debtto surroundto confineto occupyto go about a businessto attend toto cultivateto worshipto honourvenerate a placeto exercise, practise an art, mode of life, &c.to practise a religionfollow the dictates of to practisecarry ondo (habitually)to devote one's self to a practiceto exercise a personto behaveto exercise in somethingto exerciseuseemployto professpretend

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Ðeáh þá unriht-wísan ús úton begán on ǽlce healfe in circuitu impii ambulant, Ps.

ge-standan

(v.)
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L. 2, 9. non-material, to have place Æfter þǽre menigeo mínra sára þe mé ǽr on ferðe fæste gestódan secundum multitudinem dolorum meorum in corde meo, Ps.

hrycg

(n.)
Grammar
hrycg, es; m.

a backdorsumspinaa ridgerigg

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a back of a man or animal; dorsum, spina Hricg dorsum, Ǽlfc. Gl. 74; Som. 71, 47; Wrt. Voc. 44,30. Hricc, Blickl. Gl.. Swylce mé wǽre se hrycg forbrocen dum configitur [confringitur, Ps. Surt.] spina, Ps. Th. 31, 4.

Linked entries: hric hrig hryc

and

(con.)
Grammar
and, conj.
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Íne ǽr timbrede, Chr. 722; P. 42, 23. where and = þæt Þá getímode hit ymbe twelf mónað æfter Agathes þrowunge, and Ethna up ábleów, Hml.

ge-gaderung

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Gegaderunga copulas, 23, 59. a joining together to form a whole Ǽr þon þe hé þǽre gerýnelican gegaderinge menniscre gebyrde onfénge before he received the mysterious joining together and compacting of the body (cf.