list
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Sníð lythwón and listum, Lch. ii. 208, 17. [v. N. E. D. list.] Add: —
morþor-sliht
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Ic eom ealles anddetta, morðorslihta, mǽnra áða. . . and unsibbe, Angl. xi. 101, 35. Add
niþer-stige
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Se nyðerstige and se úpstige descensus et ascensus, R. Ben. I. 28, 3. Add
ofer-swógan
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Add: v. swógan; <b>II,</b> and see ofer-hón
ofesc
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Add: Cf. efesc (under efes), and M. E. ovese (v. N. E. D. eaves)
ómiht
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Gif ómihte blód and yfel wǽte on þám milte sié, Lch. ii. 252, 25
sárga
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and add Heargan (seargan? cf. salpistę trúþ*-*hornes-743) salpistę, An. Ox. 7, 57
smeáþancole
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Thoroughly, searchingly Hí wǽron smeáþancole andspyrigende and geondsmeágende subtiliter indagantes, Gr. D. 344. 15
under-þencan
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Búton hí hí selfa underþæncan and tó dǽdbóte cuman. Ll. Lbmn. 438, 35. Add
wítiend-lic
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Se wítiendlica and se apostolica cwyde prophetica apostolicaqae scententia, Gr. D. 138, 16. Add
ymb-þringan
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Þá mycclan þreátas þe him mid férdon and embþrungon, Bl. H. 99, 36. Add
-dysig-ness
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Add: a foolish, irrational, erroneous practice Forlǽtan wé ... dysinessa and gedwolcræftas, Nap. 36, 25
ears-gang
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ꝥ meox his argancges and his micgan stercus et urinam, Chrd. 69, 29. Add
ece
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Ic þrowode mycelne ece mínre heortan and líflicra leoma, Gr. D. 243, 18. Add
ofer-flówend
Superfluous
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Superfluous Ídel and oferflówend byþ eal ðæt tóforan ðysum is, R. Ben. 91, 4
Spáneas
The Spaniards ⬩ Spain ⬩ Spain
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The Spaniards or Spain Betux Galleum and Spáneum, Ors. 4, 8; Swt. 186, 15
Linked entry: Spéne
L
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In the later specimens of the West Saxon dialect those words in which the vowel a immediately preceded a combination of consonants beginning with 1 are generally found to have undergone a change which was represented by writing ea instead of a. This change
ge-crístnian
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Substitute: To administer the rite of crístnung to a person. See the passage given under crístnian; II. [The passages given under crístnian; I and IV (l. III) should be taken under II. In Bd. 5, 6; Sch. 581, 1-19 the rite is evidently referred to, as
Linked entry: crístnian
ríman
to count, number ⬩ to enumerate, recount, describe in succession ⬩ to calculate, compute, count up ⬩ to account, esteem as
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to count, number Ducentesimus se ðe biþ on ðám twám hundredum æftemyst, ðon hí man rímþ Ælfc. Gr. 49; Som. 50, 5. Næs þeáw ðæt mon ǽnig wæl on ða healfe rímde ðe ðonne wieldre wæs mos est, ex ea parte quae viceret occisorum non commemorare numerum, Ors
ge-tæl
a number ⬩ series ⬩ reckoning ⬩ computation ⬩ numerus ⬩ series ⬩ computus ⬩ computatio ⬩ a company ⬩ race ⬩ tribe ⬩ centuria ⬩ tribus ⬩ a book of reckoning ⬩ a register ⬩ catalogue ⬩ laterculum ⬩ catalogus ⬩ = κατάλoγos
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a number, series, reckoning, computation; numerus, series, computus, computatio Ðæra etendra getæl wæs fíf þúsenda wera manducantium fuit numerus quinque millia virorum, Mt. Bos. 14, 21. Seó Abbudisse hét hine [Cædmon] lǽran ðæt getæl ðæs hálgan stǽres