sweltan
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Hwí lǽddest ðú ús ðæt wé swulton on ðisum wéstene, Num. 21; 5. Ic mæg sweltan blíðelíce laetus moriar, Gen. 46, 30: Mt. Kmbl. 26, 35: Ex. 10, 28. Sceal fǽge sweltan, Exon. Th. 335, 2; Gn. Ex. 27. Swyltan, Blickl. Homl. 59, 30.
Linked entry: a-sweltan
á-firran
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Eft wé sié áfirred from . . . retrahamur a . . . , 17, 15. Se brýdguma byð áfyrred (-firred, R.) fram him auferetur ab eis sponsus . Mt. 9, 15: Bl. H. 67, 36. intrans. To remove, depart Áfirres from mé discedite a me , Mt. L. 7, 23.
gingra
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Móton wé hié ús tó giongrum habban, 407. the official representative of a person in authority, a subordinate, deputy. v. gingre, Ne dorste se heáhgeréfa náht ongeán þá hǽðengyldan, ac forlét his gigran (cf.
ge-þyncþ
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Gif heálicere eádmódnesse wé wylláð geþincðe hreppan si summe humilitatis volumus culmen adtingere, R. Ben. I. 27, 13. v. leód-geþincþ, leód-geþincþu, weorold-geþincþ, weorold-geþincþu
ge-unnan
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Th. i. 330, 16. with clause Gionn ( praesta ) ꝥte ðerh hine wé giearnigo, Rtl. 2, 19: 3, 7: 16, 11. Cwæð þæt him geúðe God þæt hí ætsomne síðian móston, Hml. Th. ii. 152, 15
hwider
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Hwyder (hwidder, L.) wylt þú ꝥ wé faron, Mk. 14, II. Huidir, Jn. L. 16, 5. (l a) with emphatic genitive :-- Hwider mæg ic þínne andlwitan befleón eorðan dǽles? a facie tua quo fugiqm? Ps. Th. 138, 5. to what state ?
wíf-mann
a woman ⬩ female
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a woman Wé lǽraþ ðæt ǽnig wífman neáh weófode ne cume ða hwíte ðe man mæssige, L. Edg. C. 45 ; Th. ii. 254, 3. Ðara manna sum wæs bescoren preóst, sum wæs lǽwede, sum wæs wífmon ( femina, ) Bd. 5, 12 ; S. 628, 35.
Linked entry: wím-man
tíd
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On eallum tídum secggan wé him þanc, Blickl. Homl. 103, 25. <b>I a.
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æt
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Wé magon beón nyttran æt him utilius apud eos proficimus, Past. 211, 21. Wé habbað gedón swá swá ús swutelung fram eów com æt ðám ƀ. Æðelnóðe, Cht. Th. 314, 2. Ðæt his fót æt stáne oþspurne. Bl.
Cynewulf
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ᚹ [wén] is geswíþrad, <b>W</b> [hope] is overpowered, gomen æfter gearum, my joy in my old age, geógoþ is gecyrred youth is turned back ald onmedla. my old pride.
FULL
FULL ⬩ filled ⬩ complete ⬩ entire ⬩ plēnus ⬩ sătiātus ⬩ confertus ⬩ intĕger
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Ðár hig wǽron seofon dagas fulle they were there seven full days, Gen. 50, 10.
mearc
a limit ⬩ bound ⬩ term ⬩ a limit ⬩ boundary ⬩ a boundary ( = gemǽre) of a particular estate ⬩ a boundary ⬩ confine of a district ⬩ border ⬩ the territory within the boundaries ⬩ fines
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Nǽfre on his weorþige weá áspringe mearce má scýte máninwides non defecit de plateis ejus usura, et dolus, Ps, Th. 54, 10
wóh
not straight ⬩ bent ⬩ crooked ⬩ twisted ⬩ oblique ⬩ not right ⬩ perverse ⬩ froward ⬩ wrong ⬩ unfair
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MSS.) wegum, 37; Swt. 267, 5. Wón, II; Swt. 73, 13: 37; Swt. 267, 12, 16: L. E. G. proem. ; Th. ii. 400, 20. Woeum pravis, Rtl. 52, 24. Míne wón wísan, Exon. Th. 393, 10; Rä. 12, 8. Hí him wóh godu worhtan, Ps. Th. 77, 58
eáster
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Ꝥte wére geslægen Eóstro (Eóstru, R.), Lk. L. 22, 7. Eástran on ǽfen Paschae vespere, Hy. S. 82, 19. Þone Eástres dæg pascha diem, Bd. 5, 22; Sch. 685, 4. Eástres (Eástra, R.), Lk. L. 2, 41: Mk. p. 5, 11: Jn. p. 6, 11. Eástres (Eóstro, R.), Jn.
Æðelrǽd
Ælhelred ⬩ Æthelréd ⬩ Æthelrédus
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When 896 winters were passed after his birth, and in the fourth indiction year, then in that year Æthelred alderman assembled all the witan of the Mercians together at Gloucester, bishops, and aldermen, and all his nobility; and did that with the knowledge
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cúþ
known, clear, plain, evident, manifest ⬩ notus, cognĭtus, manifestus ⬩ known, well known, sure, safe, noted, known as excellent, famed, celebrated ⬩ notus, certus, præstans, egregius ⬩ familiar, intimate, related, friendly ⬩ notus, familiāris, amīcus, benevŏlus
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Ðæt wæs ðara fæstna folcum cúþost that was of those fastnesses most known to nations, Cd. 209; Th. 259, 16; Dan. 692. known, well known, sure, safe, noted, known as excellent, famed, celebrated; notus, certus, præstans, egregius Cúþe ǽrenddracan nuntii
DEÓP
DEEP, profound, stern, awful, solemn ⬩ prŏfundus, grăvis, sōlemnis
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DEEP, profound, stern, awful, solemn; prŏfundus, grăvis, sōlemnis Ðes pytt is deóp this well is deep, Jn. Bos. 4, 11. Deóp wæter the deep water, Exon. 54 b; Th. 193, 19; Az. 124.
HUND
A HUNDRED ⬩ centum
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Ðǽr wǽron twá hund and eahta and feówertig wera, Blickl. Homl. 239, 14. Mid ccl hunde [þridde healf hund, MS. E.] scipa, Chr. 893; Erl. 88, 25. Ðá geceás Gedeon þreó hund manna, Jud. 7, 6. Þreó hund manna and eahtatýne men, Gen. 14, 14.
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hwyrft
A turn ⬩ revolution ⬩ going ⬩ course ⬩ orbit ⬩ circuit ⬩ orb ⬩ circle
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Náh ic hwyrft weges [Grein reads hwyrftweges] I cannot return, Exon. 101 b; Th. 383, 6; Rä. 4, 6.
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I
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In early West Saxon MSS., however, i, í are found arising from other sources. Thus the mutation of the breaking ea is written i, e. g. ildu, irmþu from eald, earm; and the mutations of eó, eá are written í, e. g. onlíhtan, híran.