hyhtan
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Add: [forms as from hyhtian occur. ] to look (mentally) with expectation and desire, look forward with hope to Wé tó þínum hidercyme hopodan and hyhtan, Bl. H. 87, 12.
ge-sceád
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' si mitis est . . . sin autem inmitis . . . ' Aiebant: Unde hoc dinoscere ualemus ?,' Bd. 2, 2; Sch. 117, 9. Hý mihton georne tócnáwan, gif hí cúðon þæt gesceád.
a-wrítan
to write out or down ⬩ to transcribe ⬩ describe ⬩ compose ⬩ transcribere ⬩ describere ⬩ conscribere ⬩ contexere ⬩ to inscribe ⬩ inscribere ⬩ inscriptione ornare ⬩ to carve ⬩ delineate ⬩ draw ⬩ sculpere ⬩ delineare
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to write out or down, to transcribe, describe, compose; transcribere, describere, conscribere, contexere Ðæs hálgan fæder and biscopes Sancti Cuþberhtes líf ǽrest eroico metro and æfter fæce gerǽde worde ic awrát I wrote out the life of the holy father
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FLEÓN
To FLEE ⬩ escape ⬩ avoid ⬩ fŭgĕre ⬩ effŭgĕre ⬩ vītāre ⬩ to put to flight ⬩ rout ⬩ conquer ⬩ fŭgāre ⬩ vincĕre ⬩ To fly as with wings ⬩ vŏlāre
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Culfran fleóþ him floccmǽlum doves fly flockwise, Homl. Th. i. 142, 9
leó
A lion ⬩ lioness
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Hé hét gelǽdan león and beran, manega and mycele, Homl. Skt. 4, 403
bóc
a BOOK ⬩ liber ⬩ a charter ⬩ charta ⬩ for the books which a priest ought to possess ⬩ for his canonical hours
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a BOOK; liber Seó bóc is on Englisc awend the book is turned into English, Homl. Th. ii. 358, 30. On fórewerd ðære bóce [MS. bóc] oððe on heáfde bǽc awriten is be me in capite libri scriptum est de me, Ps. Lamb. 39, 9.
ge-bycgan
To buy ⬩ procure ⬩ purchase ⬩ redeem ⬩ emere ⬩ redimere
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Se man gebigþ ðone æcer homo emit agrum illum, Mt. Bos. 13, 44. Hine gebohte Putifar emit eum Putiphar, Gen. 39, 1 : Cd. 149; Th. 187, 15; Exod. 151 : Beo. Th. 1951; B. 973 : 4956; B. 2481.
stefn
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Homl. 87, 3. Seó stemn ðære heortan biþ gedréfed, 19, 9. Seó stemn ys Iacobes stefn, Gen. 27, 22. Seó stefen heom andswarode, Nicod. 24; Thw. 13, 5. Swá him seó stefen beád, Gl. Prud. 1 a. Sió býman stefen, Exon. Th. 65, 29; Cri. 1062.
þríste
Bold ⬩ bold ⬩ presumptuous ⬩ audacious ⬩ shameless
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Ðonne hé wilnaþ on his móde ðæt hé sciele rícsian hé bið swíðe forht and swíðe behealden; ðonne hé hæfð ðæt hé habban wolde, hé bið swíðe ðríste mens principari appetens fit ad hoc pavida, cum quaerit, audax cum pervenerit, 9; Swt. 57, 4.
un-gemet
immensity ⬩ an immense number ⬩ immoderation ⬩ excess ⬩ to excess ⬩ without measure ⬩ excessively ⬩ immensely ⬩ very
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Ðá ongon se cealc mid ungemete stincan, 6, 32; Swt. 288, 1: Homl. Skt. i. 23, 230. Ungemetum réðe, Runic pm. Kmbl. 341, 2; Rún. 3: 341, 15; Rún. 11. Ungemettan fæste mid cludum ymbweaxen mirae asperitatis, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 132, 10.
duguþ
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Eóde Porrus se kyning mé on hond mid ealle his ferde and dugoþe. Nar. 19, 17. Þǽr gelífde sum ríce man mid ealre his duguðe, Chr. 627; P. 25, 24. Dugheþe senatu, An.
ge-wyrd
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Gewyrdum fatis (cf. gewyrd[um] fatis (si hoc carneum animae ergastulum ante fatis crudescentibus non obierit Ald. 80, 17), An. Ox. 5479), Wrt.
samnian
to collect, assemble, bring together, gather ⬩ to draw together, join, unite ⬩ to get materials together for a poem to compose ⬩ to collect, assemble, come together ⬩ to draw together, join, unite ⬩ to glean
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Homl. 91, 32. Fyrde somnian, Chr. 1016; Erl. 154, 2. Folc somnigean. Cd.
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sceáwung
a looking at, contemplation, consideration ⬩ respect,regard ⬩ reconnoitring, surveying, examination ⬩ a spectacle, show ⬩ a show, appearance, pretence
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Homl. 187, 13. a show, appearance, pretence Under sceáwunge longes gibedes sub obtentu prolixae orationis, Mk. Skt. Rush. 12, 40. as a technical term, the same as ostensio, which occurs L.
útane
from without ⬩ outside ⬩ on the outside ⬩ on the surface ⬩ out ⬩ at sea ⬩ outwardly ⬩ externally ⬩ about
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Ben. 31, 3. with ymbe, about Ðá ymbe ðæt útene forðférde Decius about that time Decius died, Homl, Skt. i. 23, 348
wǽt
wet, moist, damp, consisting of moisture ⬩ wet, moist, having moisture ⬩ wet, rainy
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Gecyrred on wǽtne deáw, Homl. Skt. ii. 30, 441. wet, moist, having moisture Sié lyft is ǽgðer ge ceald ge wǽt ge wearm, Bt. 33, 4; Fox 128, 35; Anglia viii. 299, 28. Se wǽta wong roscida tellus, Exon. Th. 417, 7; Rä. 36, 1.
sníðan
to cut, make an incision in anything ⬩ to cut as a surgeon does, to lance ⬩ to amputate ⬩ to cut up or to pieces ⬩ to cut so as to kill, to slay an animal ⬩ to cut stone, to hew ⬩ to cut hair ⬩ to cut corn, to reap ⬩ to reap ⬩ to cut ⬩ secare, resecare, caedere, putare, dolere, attondere ⬩ to cut, prune
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Ða ealdan sacerdas cealf snidon Homl. Th. ii. 210, 19.
ge-sittan
to sit ⬩ sit down ⬩ settle ⬩ lean ⬩ recline ⬩ sĕdēre ⬩ consīdĕre ⬩ discumbĕre ⬩ to occupy ⬩ possess ⬩ inhabit ⬩ possĭdēre ⬩ hăbĭtāre
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Homl. 137, 15: Ors. 6, 34; Bos. 130, 23
Linked entry: ge-setenness
sweostor
A sister. ⬩ of blood relationship ⬩ of membership in a religious house
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Óþer him sylfum, óþer his sweoster, Bd. 4, 6; S. 574, 13: Homl. Th. ii. 546, 35. Gif hé geméteþ óðerne æt his swister, L. Alf. pol. 42; Th. i. 90, 28. Hé betǽhte hý his swyster, Chr. 1048; Erl. 180, 23. Tó hyre gingran swuster, Gen. 19, 31.
Linked entries: suster ge-sweostor swuster swyster
swipu
literal, a scourge, whip, rod ⬩ that with which a stroke is struck, a sword (?), a javelin ⬩ affliction, chastisement ⬩ a whip ⬩ a lash, switch ⬩ for a top, ⬩ or scoorge flagellum
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Hé worhte áne swipe of rápum, Homl. Th. i. 406, 7. Leádene swipa and óðre gepílede swipa wurdon forð áborene, 424, 20. Swipena flagrorum, i. flagellorum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 30: Hpt. Gl. 487, 58. Swipum mastigiis, flagris, 487, 49: flagris, Wrt.