smiðian
To make out of metal or wood, to fashion, forge ⬩ fabricare, cudere
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A smith that in his forge smithed plowharneis Chauc. C. T. 3760. To smythye wepne into sikul or to sithe Piers P. 3, 305.]
mǽrsung
a making known ⬩ report ⬩ rumour ⬩ fame ⬩ renown ⬩ celebrity ⬩ celebration ⬩ a making great ⬩ magnifying ⬩ glorification ⬩ Greatness ⬩ magnificence ⬩ excellency ⬩ honour ⬩ favour
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Lind. 13, 7. fame, renown, celebrity Gesprang mérsung his in alle Syria abiit opinio ejus in totam Syriam, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 4, 24. Herodes gehérde mérsung (famam) Hǽlendes, 14, 1. Gesprang mérsung (rumor) his in all lond, Mk. Skt.
gehðo
Care ⬩ anxiety ⬩ cura ⬩ solicitudo
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Gomel on giohðe gold sceáwode the aged [man] beheld the gold in sorrow, Beo. Th. 5578; B. 2793. Giohðo mǽnde he bewailed his afflictions, 4527; B. 2267. Geómrian on gihða to mourn in spirit, Salm. Kmbl. 701; Sal. 350.
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æppel
an apple (in a special and in a general sense as in oak-apple) ⬩ an apple-shaped object ⬩ an eye-ball
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Add: an apple (in a special and in a general sense as in oak-apple) Æppel pomum, Ælfc. Gr. 31, 4. Ęppel malum, Kent. Gl. 962. Scoldon hangigan reáde apla mala punica Hwæt is getácnod ðurh ðá reádan apla (appla, l. 13)?
slæcness
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Gl. 694. slowness of physical movement Swá swá ðære sunnan sleacnys ácenþ ǽnne dæg and áne niht . . . swá eác ðæs mónan swiftnys áwyrpþ út ǽnne dæg and áne niht, Lchdm. iii. 264, 19. slowness in action Ðæs þeówes sleacnys ( he seemed long in doing
tácn-circul
A circle or cycle which marks the date. ⬩ the indiction, a cycle of fifteen years. ⬩ the lunar cycle of nineteen years; the place which any year occupies in the cycle is marked by the golden number of the year
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an ðam tácncircule ðæt seofanteóðe geár ( the golden number of the year 1061 is the remainder after dividing 1061+1 by 19; this remainder is 17, which agrees with the number given in the passage ), Chart.
wracnian
To be ⬩ travel in a foreign country ⬩ be a pilgrim ⬩ stranger
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Ephron, ðǽr wracnode Abraham Hebron, in qua peregrinatus est Abraham, 35, 27 : 37, I. Wræcnede exulat, peregrinatus est, Hpt. Gl. 476, 3.
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drípan
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[From this form drype an infin. dryppan is inferred in the N. E. D. (v. drip:) but the form may be taken as a subjunctive, cf. the following instances of that mood in Lch. :-- Nime þysse wyrte wós, dó on, i. 266, 8.
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efenlíce
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S. 13, 291. v. emn-, em-líce in Dict
feng
a taking ⬩ embrace ⬩ game ⬩ capture ⬩ seizure
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In feng ðǽra fiscana in captura piscium, Jn. p. 8, 9. capture, seizure of a person: Sé þe ne sealde ús on gehæfte ł tó fæncge (in captionem) tóðum heora, Ps.
ge-hogian
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on Drihten helpe gehogedan Domus Israel speravit in Domino Ps.
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wæl-cyrge
A chooser of the slain.
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Something of the old idea is still shewn in the following glosses, in which the word renders a Fury, a Gorgon, or the goddess of war Uualcyrge Tisifone, Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 34: Eurynis, 107, 43. Walcrigge Herinis, 110, 34.
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hea-líce
Highly, on high, excellently
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Se ðe on heofonum is heálíce sittende who sitteth on high in heaven, ii. 318, 3: 254, 27. Heálíce geweorþod highly honoured, Blickl. Homl. 125, 18. Ðus heálíce in such a high degree, 123, 2.
holh
A hollow, ⬩ cavity, ⬩ hole
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In ðæm wæs ðæt holg ðæs nearwan scræfes, Lchdm. iii. 365, col. 1
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ge-irnan
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Snáw cymð of ðám þynnum wǽtan þe . . . byð gefroren ǽr þan hé tó dropum geurnen sý, iii. 278, 25. of action, to run into, fall into Hé in nǽnigre leásunge synne ne georn nec falsitatis incurrebat peccatum, Gr.
scír
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Gif man wille of boldgetale in óðer boldgetæl hláford sécan, dó ðæt mid ðæs ealdormannes gewitnesse ðe hé ǽr in his scíre folgode, L. Alf. pol. 37; Th. i. 86, 4.
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Dorce-ceaster
DORCHESTER, Oxfordshire, the episcopal seat of the first bishop of the West Saxons, which was subsequently removed to Lincoln ⬩ Durocastrum, in agri Oxoniensis parte Berceriensi finitĭma
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Kynegils] wæs gefullod fram Byríne ðam biscope on Dorcaceastre in this year [A. D. 635] Cynegils was baptized at Dorchester by bishop Birinus, Chr. 635; Th. 47, 4, col. 1.
DISC
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Syle me on ánum disce Iohannes heáfod ðæs Fulluhteres da mihi in disco caput Ioannis Baptistæ, Mt. Bos. 14, 8, 11: Mk. Bos. 6, 25, 27. Se ðe his hand on disce mid me dypþ qui intingit mecum manum in cătĭno, 14, 20. On disce in păropsĭde, Mt.
ge-feoht
A fight ⬩ battle ⬩ contest ⬩ war ⬩ preparation for war ⬩ prælium ⬩ pugna ⬩ congressio ⬩ bellum ⬩ procinctus
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Miclum gefeohtum in great battles, Chr. 755; Erl. 48, 25 : L. In. 6; Th. i. 106, i, note 1. Gefehto and woeno gefehtana prælia et opiniones præliorum, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 24, 6
stig-weard
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[The word, which is found generally with the form stí-ward and in late documents, occurs in Eadred's will, and in a connection which seems to shew the relative importance of the officer denoted by it.
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