settan
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Sete heora ealdormenn, swá ðú Oreb dydest make their nobles like Oreb (A. V.), Ps. Th. 82, 9. Sete on Drihten ðín gehygd, 54, 22. Setton hí hine on borh they shall make him give security, L. Ath. i. 20; Th. i. 208, 30 : 210, 7.
Linked entry: on-settan
ge-þencan
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Wé magon geþencan ꝥ hit biþ deáþes ylding swíþor þonne lífes, Bl. H. 59, 32. Swá þeáh is tó geþencenne ꝥ þá fíf þing ... þeáh hí tónemde beón mid wordum, ꝥ hit is eall án ðing. Bt. 33, 1; F. 122, 9.
gifu
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., donum ) . . . þú bǽde hine ꝥ hé sealde þé lífes wæter, Jn. 4, 10. Ealra þára gifa be hé middangearde forgeaf þurh his tócyme, Bl.
hám
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Lida . . . hám cymeð, nefre him holm gestýreð, Gn. Ex. 106
tíd
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Uncúþ biþ ǽghwylcum ánum men his lífes tíd, Blickl. Homl. 125, 7. Wé sceolan on ðisse sceortan tíde geearnian éce ræste, 83, 2. Hé langre tíde ealle heora mǽgþe wæs geondfarende, Bd. 2, 20; S. 521, 26.
Linked entry: týd
gód
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Ne onsace ic náuht ꝥ þá gesǽlþa and seó eádignes sié þæt héhste gód þises andweardan lífes, Bt. 24, 3; F. 84, 11-15: 34, 3; F. 138, 5. a good quality, virtue Críst ús ǽlces gódes bysene onstealde, Bl. H. 29, 7.
hǽþen
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Þá wunda þe þá wælhreówan hǽþenan on his líce macedon, 181. Under Norðmannum gebégde on hǽþenra hæfteclommum, Chr. 942 ; P. 110, 21. of the devil. Cf. <b>A. II.</b> 2 Heó þæt deófol teáh bendum fæstne, hálig hǽðenne, Jul. 536
hú
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Th. i. 174, 12: 178, 1 ( a form like Hér cýð might be supplied ). (a β) where the verb on which the clause depends has an object, to which the clause is in apposition :-- Árece ús þæt gerýne, hú þú eácnunge onfénge, Cri. 75.
A
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The long Anglo-Saxon á is accented, and words containing this long or accented á are now represented by English terms, with the vowel sounded like o in no and bone.
óðer
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P. addit. 29 ; Th. ii. 236, 31. marking difference from the subject, or from something already referred to, other, different, somebody else, something else Ðú nimst wíf and óðer man líþ mid hire. Deut. 28, 30.
ge-reccan
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(l a) to send in a straight line; gangan gereht to go direct :-- Gang nú tó þínum mynstre mid Godes sibbe gereht, Hml. S. 23 b, 706. (l b) to direct the course of a non-material object, bring into a condition (cf. O. H.
gildan
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Gif ic gesealde land ( land which ought to have gone in the male line ) ǽnigre wífhanda, þonne forgyldan míne mǽgas . . . For ðon ic cweþe ꝥ hí hit gyldan . . . Cht. Th. 491, 21-29.
fón
to take ⬩ catch ⬩ to take ⬩ arrest ⬩ apprehend ⬩ to get ⬩ gain ⬩ to get ⬩ suffer ⬩ experience ⬩ to begin ⬩ to begin ⬩ to take ⬩ to set about ⬩ undertake ⬩ to attack ⬩ to begin at ⬩ to take ⬩ take ⬩ to set to work at ⬩ deal with ⬩ receive ⬩ accept ⬩ to take ⬩ to take ⬩ take possession of ⬩ to take ⬩ to take ⬩ undertake ⬩ to take ⬩ to take to ⬩ allow of ⬩ to take to ⬩ to take to ⬩ join battle ⬩ to join together ⬩ to struggle with
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féng deópra dolga, Rä. 57, 3. to begin Féhð seó weáláf synna bemǽnan, Wlfst. 133, 13. intrans. to begin Se circul féhð on Ianuario and þǽr eft geendað, Angl. viii. 300, 18. to take up a subject Ic wolde þæt wit féngen eft þider wit ǽr wéron I should like
cweðs ðú lá
O! sayest thou? numquid?
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O! sayest thou? numquid? Ps. Lamb. 7, 12
weg lá
interjection
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interjection Weg lá, weg lá euge, euge. Ps. Th. 69, 4. Weg lá weg ł wá lá wá ł eálá, eálá euge, euge, Ps. Lamb. 39, 16. Wí lá wei (wei lá wei, Cote. MS.), Bt. 35, 6 ; Fox 170, 12