bi-gang
a course, way, passage, circuit ⬩ cursus, via, tenor, circuitus ⬩ an undertaking, business, exercise, religious worship ⬩ negotium, exercitatio, cultus
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a course, way, passage, circuit; cursus, via, tenor, circuitus Tída bigong the course of seasons, Exon. 11 a; Th. 15, 13; Cri. 235. an undertaking, business, exercise, religious worship; negotium, exercitatio, cultus, Bd. 5, 1; S. 613, 9
biscop-seld
A bishop's seat or residence, an episcopal see ⬩ sedes episcopalis
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[seld a seat, residence] A bishop's seat or residence, an episcopal see; sedes episcopalis Se cyning sealde him stówe and biscopseld on Lindesfearona eá rex locum sedis episcopalis in insula Lindisfarnensi tribuit, Bd. 3, 3; S. 525, 35
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ge-fylsta
A helper ⬩ an assistant ⬩ adjūtor
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A helper, an assistant; adjūtor God mín gefylsta is Deus meus adjūtor est, Ps. Spl. 17, 2 : 27, 9. He him to gefylstan gesette he appointed him his assistant, Homl. Th. ii. 120, 13 : Job Thw. 166, 39
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ge-méde
Agreeable, pleasing ⬩ acceptus, grātus
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Agreeable, pleasing; acceptus, grātus Swá him gemédost wæs as was most agreeable to them, Andr. Kmbl. 1188; An. 594. Geméde agreeable, Bt. 11, 1; Bt. Fox 32, note 1. Gimoedo ł wala middangeardes prospera mundi, Rtl. 50, 6
teón-líg
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Hurtful, destructive flame, of the conflagration at the last day Eall þreó nimeþ fýres wælm . . . teónlég somod bærneþ þreó ( earth, sea, and sky ) eal on án, Exon. Th. 60, 14; Cri. 969. Tiónlég, Elen. Kmbl. 2556; El. 1279
eáþ
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= Grammar eáþ, eáþe; adv. Easily, Gen. 2058: Gú. 528. íþ; cpve. More easily Þæt hé þe eáð (iéð, S. 68, 14) mihte winnan, Ors. 2, 3; Bos. 42, 6: An. 368. Þæt mæg engel þín eáð geféran, 194
égor
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High tide, flood Égur, aegur dodrans, Txts. 57, 702. Égur dodrans, i. malina, Wrt. Voc. ii. 142, 2. Égor dodrans (de-, MS.): detrans, 70, 3. Égores cataclismi, genus fluctus, An. Ox. 7, 159. Eógra, eógora dodrantium, 13, 1
feohte
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Þá wæs feohte (fohte, MS.) néh, tír æt getohte, By. 103. Æt feohtan in battle, Gen. 2116. Þæt ðú tó fyrenlíce feohtan sóhtest, . . . óðres monnes wígrǽdenne, Vald. 1, 20, 18. Þú gúðe findest, frécne feohtan, An. 1352. Add
ge-hýþe
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Convenient, suitable Ic náht gehýðes hæbbe þis weorc tó begangenne, Hml. S. 23 b, 783. Ic mé hæfde genóh gehýþe tó mínes síðfætes geblǽdfæstnysse, 492. (v. ge-blǽdfæstness.) Híwcúþ, gehýþe domestica, i. congruentia, An. Ox. 4183: 2, 294
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ge-sod
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Add: cooking, boiling Gesod cocturam (alimentorum), An. Ox. 3759- metaph. trial as by fire. v. seóþan; Ic hié wolde geclǽnsian mid ðǽm gesode ðæs broces purgare eos per ignem tribulationis volui, Past. 267, 19. (O.H.Ger. ge-sot coctio)
gim-stán
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Tó þám geweorce ( the tabernacle ) bróhte þæt folc deórwirðe gimstánas . . . þá gimstánas getácnodon mislice fægernissa on Godes mannum (v. Ex. 35, 27), Ælfc. T. Grn. 23, 40-45. Gymstána gemmarum An. Ox. 1073. Of gimstánum gemmis 3194. Add
gristra
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Substitute: <b>grístra,</b> an; m. A baker of bread Mylenwyrd molendinarius, gríst molitura, grístra cerealis pistor (or cerealis, pistor. v. Migne cerealis pistor), bæcere pistor, Wrt. Voc. i. 34, 37: ii. 130, 17
hors-hús
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a hippodrome Móthúses, horshyses (-húses? The passage glossed is: Ad imperialis ypodromi vestibulum, Ald. 40, 33, to which refer also yppodromi þæs húses, Wrt. Voc. ii. 81, 24: imperialis hypodromi þæs cáserlican húses, 48, 45), An. Ox. 2998. (?)
mæsten
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In 1. 5 for L. M. read L. In. and add Seó lǽs and ðæt mæsten is gemǽne tó ðám án and twéntigum hídum, C. D. v. 319, 28. Æceren oððe bóc oððe óðer mæsten, Chrd. 15, 10
scilcen
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Hé sænde .vii. nacode mǽdenu (puellas), 119, 11] :-- Scylcen, fǽmne, meówle iuuencula, i. uirguncula, An. Ox. 2112. [Þer com o schelchene gon þat wes myd Kayphas (uenit una ex ancillis summi sacerdotis, Mk. 14, 66), Misc. 45, 279.]
sealting
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Dancing Mæssepreóstas . . . ne beón an þám geférscypum . . . þǽr líchamana beóð fracodlice gebǽru mid saltingum and tumbincgum (choris ei saltationibus) (cf. sum bið swíðsnel, hafað searolic gomen, gleódǽda gife for gumþegnum, leóht and leoþuwác, Crä
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fíf
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Add Dó tó þám fífum þe Octƀ hæfð, Angl. viii. 305, 17. the abstract number Gif ꝥ gedæl byð tódǽled þurh seofon ... and þǽr byð án ofer þá seofon oððe twá ..., fífe oððe syxe, Angl. viii. 303, 46
heard-sǽlig
Having hard fortune, unfortunate, unhappy
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Having hard fortune, unfortunate, unhappy Sum biþ wonspédig heardsǽlig hæle one is indigent, an unfortunate man, Exon. 78 b; Th. 295, 12; Crä. 32: Bt. 31, 1; Fox 112, 20: Exon. 115 a; Th. 442, 27; Kl. 19
geán-cirr
return
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Take here geán-cyr in Dict., and add: return Gesǽligum geáncyrre felici reditu Hy. S. 57, 22. Ðone réðan wiðer-sacan on his geáncyrre gegladian, Hml, Th. i. 450, 19. Geáncyr post-liminium, reuersionem An. Ox. 7, 187
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on-windan
to unwind, unfasten, loosen ⬩ to retire, retreat
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to unwind, unfasten, loosen Ðonne forstes bend Fæder onlǽteþ, onwindeþ wælrápas, Beo. Th. 3224; B. 1610. Báncofan onband, breóstlocan onwand, Elen. Kmbl. 2498; El. 1250. to retire, retreat Hærn eft onwand ... wædu swæðorodon, Andr. Kmbl. 1062; An. 531