wiþer-sínes
Withershins ⬩ backwards
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Withershins Similar entries (v. widder-sinnis in Jamieson's Dictionary), backwards Steorran yrnaþ wiþersýnes the course of the stars shall be reversed, Blickl. Homl. 93, 19
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wyrdness
Condition ⬩ state
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.), Bt. 39, 5 ; Fox 218, 32
árleás-nes
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Hwilc mán and hwilce árleásnesse se unrihtwísa cásere worhte, Bt. 16, 4; F. 58, 2. Add
blód-þigen
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Tasting blood Be blódþigene de esu sanguinis (cf. Gif wíf þicgð (gustaverit) hire weres blód for hwylcum lǽcedóme, 156, 13), Ll. Th. ii. 130, 18
Linked entry: þigen
canter-stæf
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A staff used by a cantor (v. preceding word)] III. canterstafas III. baculi cantorum (baculi quibus in ecclesia utebantur cantores, Migne), Cht. Th. 429, 23
coc-ród
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A cock-road, a clearing in a wood where woodcocks could be netted Oð ðá cocródæ; swá of ðǽre cocród, C. D. v. 346, 26
dwel-lic
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Erroneous, heretical Be þám men þe dwellice þing begǽð de homine qui res haereticas committit, Ll. Th. ii. 180, 35. Dwællice palladios, Germ. 397, 511
ealdor-deófol
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The prince of the devils Þonne þú gesyxt þone ealdordeófol þe líð on bæc gebunden ... and siððan heó bið gelǽdd tó þám ealdordeófle, Nap. 18
efen-wyrcend
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A co-operator Adrianus wæs efenwyrcend on Godes worde Theodorus arcebiscopes Hadrianus co-operator in uerbo Dei Theodori Episcopi, Bd. 5, 20; Sch. 673, 10
egesfullíce
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Óþer dæl wæs weallendum lígum ful swíðe egesfullíce flammis feruentibus nimium terribile, Bd. 5, 12; Sch. 616, 5
fæstrǽd-lic
Constant
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, Bt. 8; F. 26, 3
fore-setnes
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Th. ii. 506, 13), Bl. H. 219, 32. Add
for-hogd
Despicable ⬩ contemptible
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Þá burhware him wǽron for heora ungeleáfan swíþe forhogde and ungecorene, Bl. H. 77, 28
Linked entries: -hogd for-hogdlíce for-hogod for-hycgan
fram-lic
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Stout, bold Hé (Nero) nóht fromlices (freom-, v.l.) ongan on ðǽre cynewísan nihil omnino in re militari ausus est, Bd. 1, 3; Sch. 15, 21
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ge-hádod
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Ne úre ǽnig his líf ne fadode swá swá hé scolde, ne gehádode regollíce ne lǽwede lahlíce, Wlfst. 160, 1: Bl. H. 43, 7. Add
ge-hírendlic
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To be heard, audible Tó gehýrendlicere stemne ad audiendam uocem Ælfc. Gr. Z. 152, 6. Gehérendlice ( auditam ) dó mé mildheortnesse ðíne, Ps. L. 142, 8
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georn-lic
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Add: earnest Hwæþere for his geornlicum bénum ꝥ hé him fultum sóhte ne tamen obnixe petenti nil ferret auxilii, Bd. 3, 7; Sch. 218, 5
ge-strúdan
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Gestreád conroderet (Attila adeo intolerabilis reipublicae remansit hostis, ut totam pene Europam excisis inuasisque ciuitatibus atque castellis conroderet, Bd. I. 13), Txts. 180, 26. Add
híw-ness
Beauty ⬩ fairness
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Beauty, fairness Sindon óðre wíf ... heora líc bið on marmorstánes hwítnysse (híwnesse, v. l.) aliae sunt mulieres ... specioso corpore quasi marmore candido, Nar. 38, 10
hlytman
to allot
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Wé sculon tilian þæt wé tó þám écan gefeán becuman móton. þæt bið ǽlc man tó his yldrum hlytmeð(-ed?), Verc. Först. 167