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Anglo-Saxon

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bed-reda

(n.)
Grammar
bed-reda, -rids, an; m. [bed a bed, reda = rida from riden ridden, pp. of rídan to ride, hence the def. adj. bedreda bedridden, and the noun bedreda, bedrida one bedridden]

One BEDRIDDEN ⬩ clinicus

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Th. ii. 422, 4. Arás se bedreda, and arn blissigende the bedridden arose, and ran rejoicing, ii. 422, 9.

Linked entries: bædd-ryda bedd-redda bed-rida bed-ryda

ge-hlýd

(n.)
Grammar
ge-hlýd, -hlýde, es; n.

A cry ⬩ clamour ⬩ noise ⬩ tumult ⬩ murmuring ⬩ clāmor ⬩ tumultus ⬩ murmur

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Th. ii. 252, 17 : 546, 16 : Basil admn. 2; Norm. 34, 15. Mid ánþræcum gehlýde with a horrible clamour, Homl. Th. ii. 508, 17

hæfern

(n.)
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Voc. i. 281, 63: ii. 13, 30: 16, 30. Hafern concern (? concha, cf. of muscellan de conca, ii. 75, 71), i. 291, 31. Haebern, habern, hafern nepa, Txts. 81, 1370. Hæfern, Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 11.

heorþ

a hearth ⬩ fire place

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Voc. ii. 39, 38. Íren hiorð arula, 10, 21. Heorðe fornacula, log, 7: 35, 77. Wermód gesodenne on wætere on níwum cytele, dó of heorðe, Lch. ii. 44, 2. Brǽdingce on heorþum tó móse assaturam (alimentorum) in focularibus (praeparatam) ad edulium, An.

reðe

(adj.)
Grammar
reðe, ;adj.;

Right, just

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Mé ðín se góda gást lǽdde ðæt ic on rihtne weg reðne férde ; spiritus tuus bonus deducet me in viam rectam,; Ps. Th. 142, 11. Ic on wísne weg worda ðínra, reðne rinne, 118, 32.

Linked entries: rede reðe-hygdig

basuian

(v.)
Grammar
basuian, p. ode; pp. od

To be clad in purple ⬩ purpura vestiri

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To be clad in purple; purpura vestiri

burh-sǽta

(n.)
Grammar
burh-sǽta, an; m.
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A dweller in a city, citizen; civis

Linked entries: burh-séta burh-síta sǽta

deornunga

(adv.)

secretly

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In. 27; Wilk. 19, 12

fiðer-

(prefix)

four-

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four- in the compounds fiðer-féte, -scýte

Linked entry: feðer-

lang-strang

longanimis

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glosses longanimis in Ps. Lamb. 102, 8

ge-dælan

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For translation of Gú. 343 (in Dict.)

ge-sam

(prefix)

in composition, denotes together, with ⬩ simul, con

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in composition, denotes together, with; simul, con

súþ-weardes

(adv.)
Grammar
súþ-weardes, adv.
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Southwards, in the south, Met. 1, 4

-swidung

(suffix)
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in ge-swidung. Lchdm. iii. 168, 2

æ-swáp

Grammar
æ-swáp, v. swǽpa
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in Dict., and An. Ox. 608: 4155

brycg-bót

Grammar
brycg-bót, v. bric-bót
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in Dict., and see the following word

drófig

(adj.)
Grammar
drófig, adj.
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See first passage under dróf in Dict

ge-heálgian

(v.)
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In l. 4 for 13 read 12

ge-cláþian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-cláþian, p. ode
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To clothe, v. ge-cláded in Dict

Linked entry: ge-cláded

ge-unwendness

(n.)
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In the passage read geunwendnes for ungewendnes

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