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sár

(n.)
Grammar
sár, es; n.

pain, suffering, soreness ⬩ a pain, pang, sore, wound ⬩ grief, pain, ¨trouble, sorrow ⬩ a grief, sorrow, pain, wound

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Wið eágena, eárena, sídan, wambe, &c. sáre, i. 2, sqq. On his módor sáre hé biþ ácenned, Blickl. Homl. 57, 35.

leóht

(adj.)
Grammar
leóht, léht, líht [from comparison with other dialects the proper spelling would seem to be líht, but leóht (or leoht?), in West-Saxon at least, is the regular form]; adj.

Light ⬩ inconsiderable ⬩ quick ⬩ ready ⬩ nimble ⬩ fickle ⬩ easy

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Ðæt sió wamb ðý ðé leóhtre síe by it the stomach may be relieved, L. M. 2, 25; Lchdm. ii. 218, 1. Wið módes (? innoþes, MS) hefignesse ... sóna biþ ðæt mód leóhtre, Lchdm. iii. 50, 23.

gífer-nes

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Sió wamb bið áðened mid fylle for giéfernesse (venter ingluvie extenditur ), Past. 311, 2-12. Gífernesse ingluviem (ventris), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 39. Manega mettas gegladiað gýfernysse ( gulam ), Scint. 57, 4.

meltan

(v.)
Grammar
meltan, p. mealt, pl. multon; pp. molten.

to melt ⬩ become liquid ⬩ be consumed, dissolved ⬩ to digest

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Ða ðe on ðære uferan wambe gewuniap and ne mágon meltan, 1, 2; Lchdm. ii. 26, 17. Myltan, 2, 27; Lchdm. ii. 222, 18. Wel meltende mettas, 2, 16; Lchdm. ii. 196, 21

windig

(adj.)
Grammar
windig, adj.

windy ⬩ windy ⬩ flatulent

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Be windigre wambe, 162, 23. Wiþ windigre áþundenesse, 166, 25 : 188, 22. Wiþ ða þing ðe windigne ǽþm on men wyrcen, 214, 3

Q

Grammar
Q, This letter occurs but seldom in Anglo-Saxon; in those native words where qu is now found, e. g. quick, quoth, cw or cu was written, cwic, cuic, cwæþ, cuæþ. In the glossary (belonging to the eighth century) given in Wrt. Voc. ii. 98 sqq. are six instances of words beginning with qu, and four others occur in the same volume; in the Blickling Gloss the form quémde glosses complacebam, and the foreign word
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reliquias retained its original form

ge-feón

(v.)
Grammar
ge-feón, to rejoice.
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(inst. ) Seó wamb gefihð dríum mettum . . . gefihð wǽtum mettum, Lch. ii. 220, 18, 21. Hé nihtweorce gefeah, ellenmǽrðum, B. 827. Hí gefégon burhweardes cyme, An. 659. with prep. Fore ðissum gefiht (exultavit) tunge mín, Ps. Srt. 15, 9.

múþ

(n.)
Grammar
múþ, es; m.

The mouth ⬩ the mouth as an instrument of speech ⬩ the face ⬩ A mouth ⬩ opening ⬩ orifice

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Eall ðæt on ðone múþ gǽþ, gǽþ on ða wambe, Mt. Kmbl. 15, 17. Múþum buccis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 16. the mouth as an instrument of speech Be ǽlcon worde ðe of Godes múþe gǽþ, Mt. Kmbl. 4, 4. Hé æt his sylfes múþe gehýrde, Bd. 3, 27; S. 558, 40.

un-eáðe

(adj.)
Grammar
un-eáðe, and un-iéðe (-éðe, -íðe, -ýðe); adj.

difficult ⬩ hard ⬩ troublesome ⬩ unpleasant ⬩ grievous

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Wamb ungewealden and unýþe, 242, 5. Unýþe molestus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 12. Swá oft swá we óht uneáþes þrowian æt yfflum monnum, Blickl. Homl. 33, 22. Hé Gode þancie ealles ðæs ðe hé him forgeaf, ǽgðer ge ýðran ge unýðran, L. E.

Linked entries: un-éðe un-íðe

ge-teón

(v.)
Grammar
ge-teón, ic -teó, ðú -týhst, he -týhþ, pl. -teóþ; p. -teáh, -teág, -téh, pl. -tugon; pp. -togen.

to draw ⬩ lead ⬩ incite ⬩ excite ⬩ constrain ⬩ restrain ⬩ bring up ⬩ instruct ⬩ bring to an end ⬩ complete ⬩ draw or bind together ⬩ string a musical instrument ⬩ trahere ⬩ ducere ⬩ perducere ⬩ stringere ⬩ evaginare ⬩ excitare ⬩ constringere ⬩ educare ⬩ instituere ⬩ ad finem perducere ⬩ complere ⬩ nervis aptare vel instruere ⬩ to bring as an offering or gift ⬩ contribute ⬩ bestow ⬩ give ⬩ conferre

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Wamb getogen alvus constricta, Med. ex Quadr. 6, 11; Lchdm. i. 352, 24. Mid tyn strengum getogen hearpe a harp strung with ten strings, Ps. Th. 143, 10. Ða organa wǽron getogene the organs were played, Th.

Linked entries: ge-tión ge-tíþ ge-toge ge-togen ge-teág ge-téh

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Ǽr he [Ercol] ongan mid Creáca scypum, ðe mon dulmúnus hǽt, ðe man segþ ðæt in scip mǽge in þúsend manna before he [Hercules] began with Grecian ships, which are called dulmunus, of which it is said that one ship can hold a thousand men, Ors. 1, 10; Bos

sulung

(n.)
Grammar
sulung, e; f. A Kentish word for a certain quantity of land, derived, like carrucata, from a name of the plough; from its origin it might mean, so much land as could be cultivated by one plough. From the first two passages given below it would seem that the sulung was equivalent to two hides (manentes), and later a solanda, which is probably the same word, is said 'per se habere duas hidas.' v. Seebohm, Vill. Comm., p. 54. But perhaps it may be inferred that both hide and sulung were considered as on the same footing as regards the plough. Thus to the gebúr with his gyrd landes, i. e. one quarter of a hide, are to be given two oxen, L. R. S. 4; Th. i. 434, 23, while a gift of half a sulung is accompanied by the further gift of four oxen, Chart. Th. 470, 9-14. v. Seebohm, pp. 138-9, and generally. In the Domesday Survey of Kent the assessment was given by solins, and the word remained in use. v. Pegge's Kenticisms, s.v.
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sulling Aliquam terrae partiunculam, hoc est duarum manentium ... ritu Cantiae án sulung dictum, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 249, 19. Terrae particula duarum manentium, id est, án sulung, 250, 8. Yc gean intó Cristes cyrican on Cantwarabyrig ðæs landes æt Holungaburnan

Linked entry: swulung

wund

(adj.)
Grammar
wund, adj.

Wounded

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Be wambe coþum, and gif hió innan wund biþ hú ðæt mon ongitan mæge and gelácnian, 220, 1. figurative. Similar entries v. wund, II Hwider hweorfaþ wé hláfordleáse, synnum wunde, gif wé swícaþ ðé? Andr. Kmbl. 813; An. 407

fóda

victuals ⬩ provisions ⬩ sustenance ⬩ support

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Th. i. 184, 10. food for a thing, material that increases or strengthens Fóda fýres holt, and fóda wambe mete micel incrementum ignis silua, et incremmlum uentris esca multa, Scint. 56, 17.

lufian

(v.)
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Wé lufedon úra wamba fylnesse, Verc. Först. 123, 14. Þárn þe þrowera þeáwas lufedon, Gú. 132. Nǽfre þú geþreátast . . . ꝥ ic þeódscipe þínne lufie, Jul. 178. Gyf wé sélre geleorniað ꝥ we willað georne lufian (gaudenter amplectimur), Ll.

sceþþan

(v.)
Grammar
sceþþan, p. sceþede
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Ðam mon sceal sellan ða mettas ða ðe wambe nearwian and ðam magan ne sceþþan, Lchdm. ii. 278, 18. Ðý læs hí him and his freóndum sceþeden ne sibi suisque nocerent, Bd. 2, 7; S. 509, 35. Se líg ne mæg ná sceþþan ðisse fǽmnan, Shrn. 130, 32: Blickl.

Linked entry: sceaþan

sméðe

(adj.)
Grammar
sméðe, adj.

Smooth ⬩ smooth, without roughness or inequalities ⬩ smooth, without discomfort or annoyance ⬩ smooth, suave, avoiding offence ⬩ smooth, not irritating (of food, medicine, etc.) ⬩ smooth ⬩ not harsh, melodious, harmonious

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Ða wambe man sceal clǽsnian mid sméþe wyrtdrence 262, 17. Wyrc sméþe eágsealfe 308, 27. smooth (of words) Sméðne sybcwide Frag. Kmbl. 54; Leás. 29. Ðám ðe ful sméðe sprǽce habbaþ 20; Leás. 12. Ðone ele, ðæt wǽron ða sméðan lyffetunga Homl.

lust

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geslóh micle máre þonne gemet wǽre, Dan. 249. v. geoguþ-, unriht-, wamm-, weorold-, wyn-lust

þeccan

(v.)
Grammar
þeccan, p. þeahte, þehte; pp. þeaht
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Sió filmen biþ þeccende and wreóde ða wambe, Lchdm. ii. 242, 17. ¶ In the following passages Grein suggests that the form is quite a different word = comburere, and Cosijn (P.

Linked entry: þacian

hát

(adj.)
Grammar
hát, adj.
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Be wambe missenlicre gecyndo . . . Þonne heó beð hátre gebyrdo and gecyndo . . . Be hátre gecyndo wambe.

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