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for-swelan

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For 'kindle' substitute 'be consumed.'

for-togenes

(n.)
Grammar
for-togenes, -ness, e; f.

A tuggingdrawing togethergripingcrampconvulsioncontractioconvulsiospasmus

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A tugging, drawing together, griping, cramp, convulsion; contractio, convulsio; spasmus Wið fortogenesse innan for inward griping or colic, L. M. 2, 33; Lchdm. ii. 236, 32

Linked entry: togenness

fór-þearlíce

(adv.)
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Substitute: <b>for-þearllíce, -þearlíce;</b> adv. Very sternly or severely Hé bið forþearlíce áworpen ipse reprobus invenietur, R. Ben. 11, 19

for-biódan

(v.)

to forbid

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Fox 9, 108; Met. 9, 54

for-swíþe

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Cf. for-wel. Add

for-hirdan

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Take here for-hyrdan, and add:

Linked entry: for-hyrdan

fór-wel

(adv.)
Grammar
fór-wel, adv.

Very wellveryvalde

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Bt. titl, xvii; Fox xii. 24: Bt. 17; Fox 58, 24. Ólǽcþ ðes middangeard fórwel menige this world flatters very many, Homl. Th. i. 490, 14: ii. 158, 30: Ps. Th. 131, 6. Wurdon geworhte wundra fórwel fela very many wonders were wrought, Homl.

for-súgan

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for-súgan, Substitute: To suck in (used of the spasmodic action of the stomach in hiccough? Cf. súgan; <b>II,</b> sogoþa)
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Wiþ forsogenum magan oþþe áþundenum for a stomach troubled with hiccough or wind, 186, 17

for-sweorcan

(v.)
Grammar
for-sweorcan, to grow dark.
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L. 198. ¶ a wk. form occurs, to make dark (?) :-- Forsweorced fuscatus (velut Aethiopica nigritudine, Ald. 66, 23), An. Ox. 2, 369. (Cf. Wrt. Voc. ii. 152, 7 supra.)

for-eáþelíce

(adv.)
Grammar
for-eáþelíce, adv.

Very easily

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Very easily, without inconvenience Hú mihtú for sceame ǽniges ðinges æt Gode biddan, gif ðú forwyrnst ðínum gelícan þæs ðe ðú foreáðelíce him getíðian miht?, Hml. Th. i. 256, 7

Linked entry: eáþe-líce

for-wénan

(v.)
Grammar
for-wénan, to overween.
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Substitute: <b>for-wened</b> glosses insolens Feruuaenid, foruuened insolens, Txts. 70, 548. Þá forwenedan insolentiam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 53. Cf. ofer-wenian, and next word

for-sceóppan

(v.)
Grammar
for-sceóppan, p. -scóp, pl. -scópon; pp. -sceápen

To re-createtransformdeformtransformāre

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To re-create, transform, deform; transformāre Sume, hí sǽdon, ðæt hió [Circe] sceolde forsceóppan to león some, they said, she [Circe] should transform to a lioness, Bt. 38, 1; Fox 194, 33

Linked entry: for-scyppan

for-tredan

(v.)
Grammar
for-tredan, ðú -tretst, -trydst, -trytst; p. -træd, pl. -trǽdon; pp. -treden

To tread upontread under footconculcārecalcāre

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To tread upon, tread under foot; conculcāre, calcāre Ðæt ðú cunne fortredan ðas woruld that thou mayest tread down this world, Homl. Th.ii. 392, 34. Ic fortrede conculco, Ælfc. Gr. 47; Som. 48, 43.

for-þerscan

(v.)
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(v. for-sleán; <b>I b.</b>) [O. H. Ger. fer-droskan attritus.]

for-tíhan

(v.)
Grammar
for-tíhan, he -tíþ; p. -táh, pl. -tigon; pp. -tigen

To draw against or overcover over with anythingdarkenobscureobdūcĕre

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Fox 22, 67; Met. 22, 34

for-slegen

(v.; part.)
Grammar
for-slegen, pp.

slainslaughtered

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slain, slaughtered, Cd. 94; Th. 122, 5; Gen. 2022; for-sleán

for-weorþan

(v.)
Grammar
for-weorþan, -wurþan; ic -weorþe, ðú -weorþest, -wyrst, he -weorþeþ, -wyrþ, pl. -weorþaþ, -wyrþaþ; p. ic, he -wearþ, ðú -wurde, pl. -wurdon; pp. -worden

To become nothingto be undoneto perishdiead nihilum devĕnīrepĕrīreinterlredeficére

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112, 27: 34, 9; Fox 148, 12.

for-ceorfan

to cut upto cut offto cut down

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Sume wǽron handum and fótum forcorfene some had their hands and feet cut off, Hml. Th. i. 542, 32

for-gifenlic

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For 'forgiving, . . ., bearable' substitute:

Linked entry: gifenlic

for-swarung

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For &#39;,Nap. 25&#39; l. periurium, Chrd. 40, 34