hár-wenge
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Add: grey-bearded [cf. wang (wenge)] Cóm sum hárwencge manu ( St. Peter ) intó þám cwearterne . . . þá cwǽð se hárwencga, Hml. S. 8, 131-138. Sum geleáfful bócere hárwencge and eald, sé hátte Eleazarus ( Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged
hás-hrímian
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to cry hoarsely Hié háshrýmedon on heora stefnum (hásrúnigendun stefnun, v. l.) erant clamoribus raucisonis, Guth. Gr. 128, 127. (?)
Linked entry: hrímian
hás-swége
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Hoarse-sounding Hásswége raucisonos, rugientes, Germ. 391, 38
Linked entry: swége
hál-ness
Similar entry: wan-hálness
hǽr-loccas
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Perhaps this should be read hǽr, loccas. Cf. fexa ł hǽra cincinnoriim, 435, 5
hae-swealwe
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A kind of hawk Haesualwe (Sweet suggests sǽ-) astur, Txts. 43, 234. Cf. beoru-swealwe
hál-fæst
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For 'Lye' substitute His sáule gyltas . . . onwreoða . . . suman swá gástlicum bréðer þe hálfæst sý and his sáule wundela gehǽlan cunne (spiritali seniori qui sciat curare sua vulnera ), R. Ben. 72, 6
grǽg-hama
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Add: If the word denotes a living creature the verb gylleð would point to a bird rather than to the wolf. The verb þeótan (q.v.) and the noun geþot are the words used for the howl of the wolf, while gellan (q.v.) is used of the scream of a bird. As the
hæg-steald
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Add: a tiro, novice Warna ǽr cniht beón þænne hægesteald ł geong cempa caue ante miles esse quam tiro, Scint. 205, 9. Sé ðe hehstald (uirgo) gecoren is . . . ꝥte ðá hehstald hehstald gehealde (ut uirginem uirgo seruarei), Jn. p. l, 2-5. Ðǽr hehstalde
hægsteald-hád
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Add: — Hægstealdhádes celibatus, An. Ox. 1395
hæg-sugga
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A hedge-sparrow Hægsugga. ficitula, Hpt. 33, 241, 48
Linked entries: sucga hege-sugge
heort-hama
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Heorthama bucleamen, Wrt. Voc. ii. 126, 67. Smælþearmas, geallan mid þý heorthoman (bucliamine), Lch. i. lxxii, 7. Add
heáh-þungen
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Heáhþungen perspicuus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 5. Cnæht mín héhðungen bið suíðe puer meus sublimis erit valde, Rtl. 1, 27. Bútan þæt þá bysena heáhþungenra lǽrað nisi majorum cohortantur exempla, R. Ben. 29, 19. Add:
healf-hár
Half-grey
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Half-grey Healfhár semicanus, fulhár canus(omitted after) Wrt. Voc. i. 45, 34. v. Angl. viii. 451
healm-streáw
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heal-stán
a crust
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A flat cake with a hard crust, so called because of the hardness of its crust [cf. for similar terms pflasterstein in German, pavé in French, for a hard kind of cake], a crust Crustula similis haalstaan (crustalla halstán), Txts. 55, 604. Helsta vel
Linked entries: heall heall-stán hilsten
heán-líce
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Man sceal þá geoguðe geómorlíce lǽdan gehæft heánlíce mid heardum bendum and swá bysmorlíce bringan of heora éðle, Wlfst. 295, 17. Sume hí man heánlice hættode, Chr. 1036; Th. i. 294, 7, col. 2. Add
heán-mód
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Rä. 43, 17