Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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hilfling

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Take here helfling in Dict., and add:

hwǽstrian

(v.)
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Take here hwástrian in Dict., and add:

holt-wudu

(n.)
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In Kr. 91 the MS. has holmwudu

morgen-mete

(n.)
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In l. 3 for 129 l. 192

ríp-ness

(n.)
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In l. 2 read 39 for 29

sám-wís

(adj.)
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In l. 4 for 201 l. 202

bed-gerid

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Substitute : The food in an ants' nest

burg-stal

(n.)
Grammar
burg-stal, -stól, es; m. [burg = beorg, beorh a hill, stal a place, seat, dwelling]
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The name of places built on a hill, as Burstall in Suffolk, Borstall in Kent and Oxfordshire, etc

Linked entry: beorh-stal

ge-brice

(n.)
Grammar
ge-brice, -bryce, es; m. [ge-, brice a breaking]

A breakingbreachconfractio

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A breaking, breach; confractio Gyf ná Moyses gecoren his stóde on gebrice [Lamb. gebryce] on gesihþe his si non Moyses electus ejus stetisset in confractiōne in conspectu ejus, Ps. Spl. 105, 22

Linked entry: ge-bryce

ge-mindiglícnys

(n.)
Grammar
ge-mindiglícnys, -nyss,e; f.

A remembrance, memorialmĕmŏriāle

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A remembrance, memorial; mĕmŏriāle Ðú Driht on écnysse þurhwunast, and gemindiglícnys ðín on cynrine and cynrine tu Dŏmĭne in æternum permănes, et mĕmŏriāle tuum in generātiōnem et generātiōnem, Ps. Spl. 101, 13

geond-swógan

(v.)
Grammar
geond-swógan, (?) to rush through or over a surface,
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or in-? other readings give on-, in-) ut nullus episcoporum parrochiam alterius inuadat, Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 376, 10. Cf. þurh-swógan

Linked entry: in-swógan

hund-teóntig

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<b>III a.</b> as ordinal :-- In psalme hunteánteige nióða in psalmo cetitesimo nono, Lk. p. 10, 11. construction uncertain ꝥ nett full mið miclum fiscum hunteántig (hund-, R. ))

á-teón

to draw (out),to protractto deal with,to treat a personto employ propertytimetalents

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S. 8, 105. with direction determined by an adv. or prep. of movement Seó orþung þe wé in áteóð, Hml. S. I. 215. Þæt ic áteó þás hringan up of ðysum hlyde, 21, 66. Forþ átogene prolata (suspiria), An.

ge-springan

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Ex. 196. of energetic speech, to burst forth in words In ðæt mearda of heofne cwóm loceteð ł gesprang (cf. gesprintan) : 'In fruma waes word' in illud prooemium e coelo veniens eructavit: 'In principio erat verbum,' Mt. p. 9, 7. to grow as a plant (lit

liþ

(n.)
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liþ, es; m. n.

A jointlithlimb

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Ðæt hé dyppe his fingres liþ on wætere that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, Lk. Skt. 16, 24, On ðone liþ ðæra eaxla, L. M. 2, 36; Lchdm. ii. 242, 12. On ðæt liþ, 1, 61; Lchdm. ii. 132, 6. Liþu artus, Wrt. Voc. 64, 77.

Linked entries: leoþu lid

cild

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I. 60, 16. Iung cildra lactantes, i. infantes, An. Ox. 2591. Cildas (cild, R.) parvoli, Mt. L. 19, 13. Ofer hiora dei, wífes and cilda, C. D. i. 316, 16. Of cilda (cildra, R., infantium ) múeð, Mt. 21, 16: Bl. H. 71, 17.

hrædlíce

(adv.)
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Th. ii. 504, 25), Ald. 30, 26), 78, 79

swífan

(v.)
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swífan, p. swáf, pl. swifon; pp. swifen.
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[Here are added examples of á-swífan omitted in their place :-- Asuáb exorbitans, Wrt. Voc. ii. 107, 74.

Linked entry: a-swífan

drí-cræfteg

(adj.)

skilful in magic

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skilful in magic, Ex. 7, 11

díhlum

in secret

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in secret, Mt. Bos. 6, 6