smǽte
Refined, pure
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Hé hét smiðian of smǽtum golde áne lytle róde Homl. Th. ii. 304, 16: Homl. Skt. i. 2, 113
smeart
Smart, painful
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R. 294, 12. Stede and twei sporen and ane smearte ʒerd O. E. Homl. i. 243, 23. Mid smerte smiten of smale longe ȝerden ii. 207, 6. Me him smæt mid smærte ȝerden Laym. 20318. If men smot it with a yerde smerte (adv.) Chauc. Prol. 149.]
sméðian
to become smooth ⬩ to make smooth
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R. 4, 23.]
smeortan
To smart ⬩ dolere
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R. 238, 29. Smertyn̄ uro Prompt. Parv. 460.]
smiðian
To make out of metal or wood, to fashion, forge ⬩ fabricare, cudere
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R. 52, 8. A smith that in his forge smithed plowharneis Chauc. C. T. 3760. To smythye wepne into sikul or to sithe Piers P. 3, 305.]
smirels
An unguent, ointment, unction, salve ⬩ grease
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R. 372, 18. þat swote smirles þat is icleopet basme H. M. 13, 21. Kepen ðe lich wiðuten smerles Gen. and Ex. 2454. þe Magdalene smerede Cristes uet mid þe precious smerieles Ayenb. 187, 32.]
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smocian
To smoke, emit smoke ⬩ To smoke
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R.) mid hǽþe 354, 23. [ Þa iseȝen heo a fur smokien Laym. 25734. Smekyn̄ or smokyn̄ fumo, fumigo Prompt. Parv. 460.]
snǽsan
To spit, run through with a pointed implement or weapon ⬩ to spit
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R. 212, 22.]
snǽding
A (slight?) meal ⬩ a meal ⬩ to take food
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Cf. the translation of the passage, R. Ben. 63, 1. Ðære wucan rǽdere gange tó hláfe and drince) ǽr ðan ðe hé áginne rǽdan R. Ben. Interl. 70, 4
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sol
Mire or a miry place ⬩ filthy ⬩ volutabrum
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R. 324, 1. His (the priest's) alter cloð great and sole, and hire (the priest's concubine's) chemise smal and hwit; and te albe sol, and hire smoc hwit Rel. Ant. i. 129. Solwy dirty Wrt. Voc. i. 171, 41.]
spelian
To act as the representative of another ⬩ to represent ⬩ to take, or stand in, the place of another
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Gif hé wrítan ne cunne bidde óðerne ðe cunne ðæt hine spelige si non scit literas, alter ab eo rogatus scribat, R. Ben. 100, 5.
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speling
The taking the place of another ⬩ the acting as the representative of another
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The taking the place of another, the acting as the representative of another Cristes gespelia hé (the abbot) is and his note and spelinge on mynstre healt Christi uices agere in monasterio creditur, R. Ben. 10, 12
spere-healf
The male side or line
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R. A. 470) Mín yldra fæder hæfde gecweden his land on ða sperehealfe, næs on ða spinlhealfe, Chart. Th. 491, 20
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ge-síclian
To be taken sick or ill ⬩ to be infirm ⬩ ægrōtāre ⬩ infirmāri
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Rdr. 100, 169
Linked entries: síclian ge-seócled ge-séclod ge-sýclian
ge-sinlíce
Curiously ⬩ strictly ⬩ curiose,
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Curiously, strictly; curiose, R. Ben. 58
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ge-sprǽc
Speech ⬩ discourse ⬩ conversation ⬩ advice
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Speech, discourse, conversation, advice Se cyning wæs on gesprǽce wynsum erat rex affatu jucundus, Bd. 3, 14; S. 540, 8. Ic wæs mid his gesprǽce wet geréted allocutione ejus refecti, 5, 1; S. 613, 22.
ge-sund-ful
Full or quite sound ⬩ prosperous ⬩ successful ⬩ prospĕrus
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Rdr. 98, 85
ge-swefian
To cause to sleep ⬩ cast asleep ⬩ lull ⬩ appease ⬩ sōpīre ⬩ sŏpōrāre
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Drihten on róde mid deáþe wæs geswefod the Lord was put to sleep by death on the cross, ii. 260, 18: i. 496, 12: Boutr. Scrd. 19, 37. Ic eom geswefod sŏpōrātus sum, Ps. Lamb. 3, 6
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ge-swígian
to be silent ⬩ to pass over in silence; with the genitive ⬩ to silence
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Rdr. 111, 202.
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ge-syndrian
to separate
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to separate Gesyndrod sí he fram beodes dǽlnimunge let him be separated from sharing in the table, R. Ben. interl. 24, Lye. On ðære gesyndredan híde in the separate hide, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 4, 8
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