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sweart

(adj.)
Grammar
sweart, adj.
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Da þeóstre ðære sweartan nihte. Bt. 4; Fox 6, 34. Ðære sweartan helle grund. Cd. Th. 22, 24; Gen. 345. Se ðe on þýstre færeþ, on sweartre niht. Exon. Th. 54, 23 ; Cri. 873. Deorc gesweorc sinnihte sweart. Cd. Th. 7, 21; Gen. 109.

Linked entries: swart swertling

un-cáfscipe

(n.)
Grammar
un-cáfscipe, es; m.

Inactivitysluggishnessignavia

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Inactivity, sluggishness; ignavia Ðá féng Nero tó ríce; se æt néxtan forlét Brytene ígland for his uncáfscipe (cf. se náht freomlíces ongan on ðære cynewísan, ac ... hé Breotona ríce forlét nihil omnino in re militari ausus est ...

Linked entry: cáf-scipe

ge-líc

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
ge-líc, es; n.
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'Ic wondrie þín, hwí þú secge þæt þú Gode náwiht gelíces nyte (nihil te nosse Deo simile )'. . . Gyf ic wiht him gelíces wiste, ic wolde þat lufian, Solil. H. 15, 13-19. Næfð hé náht men gelíces de homine nihil habet, Gr. D. 46, 28.

ufor

(adj.)
Grammar
ufor, cpve.: ufemest; spve. adv.

Higherhighestat or i-s/>to a greater heightfarther from a coastfrom a spothigherat or to a more honourable placehigherlater

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Similar entries v. ufera, Fíf nihtum ufor five days later, Menol. Fox 355; Men. 179: 68; Men. 34.

Linked entries: yfemest uferor

a-gán

(v.)
Grammar
a-gán, p. -eóde; pp. -gán [a from, away, gán to go] .

to come to passhappenpræteriretransireto come forthprovenireto approach to any one to solicit himprocedere ad aliquem sollicitandi causa

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Æfen-fela nihta agáne wǽron totidem noctes transierunt, Deut. 9, 11: Andr. Kmbl. 293; An. 147: Elen. Kmbl. 2452; El. 1227.

Linked entries: a-eóde a-gǽn a-gǽþ

nytenness

(n.)
Grammar
nytenness, e; f.

ignorancelazinessdisgraceignominy

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Se ðe tódrǽfde ealle nytennysse ðære ealdan nihte, 36, 29. Crist mæg ðíne nytennysse (MSS. C. V. nyte-) onlíhtan, Homl. Skt. 5, 200. Gif folces man syngaþ þurh nytenysse per ignorantiam, Lev. 4, 27.

Linked entries: nyten nitenness

on-bídan

(v.)
Grammar
on-bídan, p. -bád; pl. -bidon; pp. -biden.
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Onbíd her seofon and twentig nihta, 231, 5: 237, 33. Hér sceolon hí onbídan, Soul Kmbl. 121; Seel. 61. to wait for, expect, with gen. Ic uncres gedáles onbád, 75; Seel. 37. Ic ðín onbád, Ps. Th. 118, 116.

tyht

(n.)
Grammar
tyht, es; m.
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Ger. über-zug Þrong niht ofetiht londes frætwa night, the covering drawn over the land's decorations, pressed on, Exon. Th. 179, 3; Gú. 1256

Linked entry: ofer-tyht

be-settan

to setplaceto applyto surroundto besiege

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His líc læg ealle þá niht inne beset, 348, 19. Wítum besette on helle, Wlfst. 145, 31. to besiege Gé beóð lange inne besette, Deut. 28, 53. to set with something inserted Hé eall wæs beset mid heora scotungum, Hml. S. 32, 117.

ryne

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Add Þæs mónan swiftnes áwyrpð út ǽnne dæg and áne niht of ðám getæle his rynes (from the period of a lunation) ǽfre ymbe neogontýne geár, Lch. iii. 264, 22. Se sídfæt þe Zosimus on .xx. dagum oferfór, ꝥ eall Maria on ánre tíde ryne gefylde, Hml.

fáh

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exposed to the vengeance of a slain man's kin because of the murder Gif fáh mon (gefáh mon, v. l.) cirican geierne, hine seofan nihtum nán mon út ne teó if a criminal fly for refuge to a church, for seven days no one shall drag him out, Ll.

eorþe

the groundsoillandearththe eartha landcountrysoilmoulddust

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Seó sunne gǽð . . . on dæg bufon eorðan and on niht under ðysse eorþan . . . Ǽfre heó byð yrnende ymbe ðás eorðan . . . Ǽfre byð on sumre sídan þǽre eorðan dæg, and ǽfre on sumre sídan niht, 234, 18-28. Eorðan ymbhwyrft, 236, 7.

Linked entry: eorþ-lic

stæl-here

(n.)
Grammar
stæl-here, g. -her(i)ges; m.
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A marauding band, predatory army Hié fóron út mid stælherge nihtes ... and genómon unlytel ǽgðer ge on mannum ge on ierfe, Chr. 921; Erl. 106, 13. Drehton ða hergas West-Seaxna lond mid stælhergum, 897; Erl. 95, 9.

íðan

(v.)
Grammar
íðan, p. de

To lay wastedesolatedestroy

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To lay waste, desolate, destroy Ic ýðde eotena cyn and on ýðum slóg niceras nihtes, Beo. Th. 846; B. 421. Ýðde ðisne eardgeard ælda scyppend the creator of men laid waste this world, Exon. 77 b ; Th. 291, 20; Wand. 85.

in-méde

(adj.)
Grammar
in-méde, adj.
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Hí nán þing him inmédre ne lǽten, ne besorhre, þonne hira Drihten Christo omnino nihil praeponant, R. Ben. 132, 8

Linked entry: -méde

heord

keepingcustodycareguard

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Take here the last two passages under heorde in Dict., and add Hé út wæs gongende tó neáta scypene þára heord (heorde, v.l. custodia) him wæs þǽre nihte beboden, Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 483, 2.

án-daga

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Þá æteówode Benedictus . . . on þǽre nihte þe se ándaga on merigen wæs, Hml. Th. ii. 172, 9-17. Æfter þám fyrste and ándagan þe se heáhengel gecwæð tó Danihele, 14, 18. Tó þám ándagan þe hé him gewissode, Hml. A. 97, 167.

mæsse

(n.)
Grammar
mæsse, messe, an; f.

a service of the churchmassa festival day when a solemn mass was celebrated-mas

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Se biscop and se mæssepreóst sceolan húru embe seofon niht mæssan gesingan for eal cristen folc ðe ǽfre ácenned wæs, Blickl. Homl. 45, 31.

síde

(n.)
Grammar
síde, an ; f.
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Ǽfre byþ on sumre sídan ðære eorþan dæg, and ǽfre on sumre sídan niht, Lchdm. iii. 234, 27: Anglia viii. 319, 39. of descent, cf. on the father's, mother's side Hig wǽron ácennede of Constantines sídan, ðæt ys of gestreónde, Shrn. 97, 6

Tíw

(n.)
Grammar
Tíw, Tíg, Tí, es; m.
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On Tíwes-niht, Lchdm. iii. 146, 23. one form of the name of the Runic T; Ti is given as the name of the symbol RUNE in some alphabets, see Kemble on Anglo-Saxon Runes in Archæologia, vol. 28, pp. 338, 339.

Linked entries: Tíg Tuu