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wiþ-sacan

(v.)
Grammar
wiþ-sacan, p. -sóc, pl. -sócon; pp. -sacen

To denyrefuserejectto say noto refuse permissionrefuserejectdeclineto denyreject refuse assentto renouncerejectgive uprefusewithholdnot to giveto declare hostility

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Ðá wiþsóc (negavit) se biscop, Bd. 5, 6; S. 619, 1. where an offer or command is expressed or implied or choice is possible, to refuse, reject, decline, Grammar wiþ-sacan, absolute Bæd se gesíþ hine, ðæt hé eode on his hús; wiþsóc (renuit) se biscop,

an-búgan

(v.)
Grammar
an-búgan, p. -beáh, -beág, pl. -bugon; pp. -bogen; v. intrans.

To bend or bow one's self insubmit to any onese inflecterese submittere alicui

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To bend or bow one's self in, submit to any one; se inflectere, se submittere alicui To ðon ðæt hí him anbugon that they might submit to him, Ors. 1, 12; Bos. 36, 25

Linked entry: on-búgan

ge-fædrian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-fædrian, p. ede; pp. ed

To FATHERto adoptto ascribe to any one as a son or daughteradoptarepatri filium vel filiam ascribere

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were by their father, [fathered], Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 60, 19

ge-médrian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-médrian, p. ede, ode; pp. ed, yd

To MOTHER, to adopt or to have as a son or daughteradoptare, habere sibi filium vel filiam

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To MOTHER, to adopt or to have as a son or daughter; adoptare, habere sibi filium vel filiam Ða þrý gebróðra nǽron ná Philippuse gemédred the three were not brothers of Philip by their mother [mothered], Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 60, 19.

prím-sang

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Be prímsangum ( de ora prima ). Ðonne preóstas tó cyrcan cumon heora prím tó singienne, Chrd. 27, 37. Add

ár-geótere

(n.)
Grammar
ár-geótere, es ; m. [ár brass, geótere a pourer]

A caster or pourer of brassmelter of brassbrass-founderærarius

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A caster or pourer of brass, melter of brass, brass-founder; ærarius Ðá wæs sum árgeótere, se mihte dón anlícnessa there was a certain brass founder, who could make images, Ors. 1, 12; Bos. 36, 26

stóc

(n.)
Grammar
stóc, (stoc ?). A word occurring mostly in local names, either alone or in compounds. The meaning seems, like that of stów, to be place (in the first instance perhaps a place fenced in, cf. (?) staca), and both words remain now only as names of places,
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Stoke, Stowe, or as parts of such names, Basingstoke, Tavistock, Walthamstow. As may be seen from the Index to the Charters, Stóc occurs frequently, some of the references are here given Ðis is ðara þreora hída and .xxx. æcera bóc æt Stóce, Cod.

Linked entries: stóc-weard stóc-wíc

wendan

Grammar
wendan, <b>. II.</b>
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, Met. 4, 34. with idea of hostility, to turn on or against Hé wende on þá áne þe him getriéwe wǽron bellum vertit in socios, Ors. 3, 7; S. 114, 1

þrí

(n.; num.; adj.)
Grammar
þrí, þrý, þrié, þreó; m.: þreó, þrió, þré; f. n. (ðreá, ðriá, ðreó, ðrió in North.); gen. þreóra, þrióra (and ðreána in North.); dat. þrim (þrím? ðriim in North., but cf. Goth. þrim), later þreom.

Three

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Kmbl. 12, 40: Ymbe þreó mónað, Ors. 5, 11; Swt. 238, 11. On ðrió wísan, Past. 53; Swt. 417, 20. Þrió míla, Ors. 4, 10; Swt. 194, 7. Ymb þreó niht, 3, 11; Swt. 152, 19: Elen. Kmbl. 1663; El. 833: Gen. 29, 2.

Linked entries: þreó þrió þrý

for-sceorfan

(v.)
Grammar
for-sceorfan, p. -scearf, pl. -scurfon; pp. -scorfen [sceorfan to gnaw, bite]

To gnaw or eat offarrōdĕre

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To gnaw or eat off; arrōdĕre Gærstapan ǽlc wuht forscurfon, ðæs ðe on ðam lande wæs grówendes locusts ate off everything that was growing in the land, Ors. 5, 4; Bos. 105, 17, notes, p. 24, 7, MS. L

Linked entry: sceorfan

fugelere

(n.)
Grammar
fugelere, fuglere, es; m.

A FOWLERauceps

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Ðǽr gewícodon fisceras oððe fugeleras where fishers or fowlers encamped, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 9. Fugelerum [MS. fugeleran] with fowlers, 1, 1; Bos. 20, 5

Linked entry: fuglere

ge-hámian

(v.)
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.), to obtain domicile for a person Aldréd ... hine gihámadi mið ðǽm ðriim dǽlum ... and æhtu óra seulfres mið tó inláde Aldred obtained domicile for himself (became a member of the Lindisfarne monastery) with the three gospels ... and eight ores of

ge-mang

Grammar
ge-mang, among.
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Th. i. 286, ll. of the relation of a thing (or things) to the whole surrounding group or composite substance Hié gemong þǽre heringe þyllica bismra on hié selfe ásǽdon, Ors. 4, 4; S.

Eást-land

(n.)
Grammar
Eást-land, es; n.

The east country, Esthonia [Eastland], the country of the Osti or Estas orientālis terra, terra Esthonia

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The east country, Esthonia [Eastland], the country of the Osti or Estas; orientālis terra, terra Esthonia Iacob com to ðam eástlande Iacob vēnit in terram orientālem. Gen. 29, I. Eástland is swýðe mycel Esthonia is very large, Ors. I. I; Bos. 22, 12

wæstm-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
wæstm-leás, adj.

Without fruit(lit. or fig.)

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¨ Without fruit(lit. or fig.) Ðæt word westem*-*leás geweorðæd verbum sine fructu efficitur, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 13, 22. Ðí læs ðe se Hláford ús wæstmleáse geméte, Homl. Th. ii. 408, 27. [Itt liþ uss wasstmeleas off alle gode dedess, Orm. 13858.]

seonu-wealt

Grammar
seonu-wealt, [In the gloss at Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 54 perhaps torosa denotes the roundness or plumpness of a muscular object. Could it be a gloss on a passage from Ovid, torosa colla boum?]
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Add Sinewealtre trendla tyrnincge tereti circulorum rotunditate, An. Ox. 522. Add Of sinewealtum þrǽda cliwene ex tereti filorum glomere, An. Ox. 3734. Sinewealte popelstánas rotundas lapillulos, 1813

ge-stælan

Grammar
ge-stælan, l. -stǽlan, dele first passage, in last for leágung l. leásung, and add: to bring home to a person a charge, liability, &amp;c., to prove something to have been committed by, or
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to be due from, a person Gif mon on folces gemóte cyninges geréfan geyppe eofot (þeófðe, v.l.), and his eft geswícan wille, gestǽle on ryhtran hand ( let him make the charge good upon one who more justly may be charged; pertrahat hoc ad rectiorem manum

un-gerǽdness

(n.)
Grammar
un-gerǽdness, e; f.

Discorddisagreementvariance

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Discord, disagreement, variance Betux Agathocle and his folce wearð ungerǽdnes in exercitu Agathoclis orta est seditio, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 170, 15.

land-gemǽre

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Hé on Rómána londgemǽro hergeade cum oram Italiae maritimam vastaret 4, 6 ; S. 172, 1. Ǽrest ymbe úre landgemǽra. Úp on Temese . . ., Ll. Th. i. 152, 8. Add

mán

(adj.)
Grammar
mán, adj.
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Þá oðswóran hié mid þǽm bismerlicestan áðe þæt hié him nǽfre on fultume nǽre, þéh þá áðas wǽren neár máne (or sbst.?] þonne sóðe turpissimam rupti foederis labem adcumulavere perjurio, Ors. 4, 3 ; S. 162, 12.