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fugol-wylle

(adj.)
Grammar
fugol-wylle, adj.

Bird-springingproducing birdsabounding in birdsăvĭbus ăbundans

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Bird-springing, producing birds, abounding in birds; ăvĭbus ăbundans Hit is fiscwylle and fugolwylle it is abounding in fish and fowl, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 41

Linked entry: fugel-wylle

ful-boren

(v.; part.)
Grammar
ful-boren, part.

Full-bornnoble-bornnōbĭlis nātu

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Full-born, noble-born; nōbĭlis nātu Mid eahta and feówertig fulborenra þegena with eight and forty noble-born thanes, L. Ath. iv. 7; Th. i. 228, 4

Linked entry: sám-boren

geáp

(n.)
Grammar
geáp, geápu, e; f. [geáp roomy, spacious]

Expanseroomlatĭtūdospătium

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Expanse, room; latĭtūdo, spătium Ðás hofu dreórgiaþ, and ðæs teáfor geápu these courts are dreary, and its purple expanse [?], Exon. 124 a; Th. 477, 27; Ruin. 31

un-ornlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
un-ornlíc, adj.

Poorplainmean

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Poor, plain, mean Hí námon him ealde gescý and unornlíc scrúd they took old shoes and mean apparel; tulerunt calceamenta perantiqua, induti veteribus vestimentis, Jos. 9, 5

clyppan

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Hé gelæhte hine be þám swuran and cyste and clypte, Hml. S. 30, 336. Ꝥte clioppende (cliopende, R.) wæs ut complexus esset, Mk. L. 9, 36. Add

ed-geong

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Áríseð se Fénix of dǽðe and bið edgung . . . á emb þúsend wintra hé hine forbærneþ and eft ediung úp áríseþ, E. S. viii. 479, 85-89. Add

frǽ-dréman

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., and add Wé singaþ and wé freádrémaþ strengða þíne cantabimus et psallemus uirtutes tuas, Ps. L. 20, 14. Cf. frǽ-þancian

gefeá-lic

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Gyf him þince ꝥ hé mid cyninge sprece, him cumeð gefeálic gifu tó and gód, Lch. iii. 172, 3. Fæger and gefeálig fugles tácen, Ph. 510. Add

ge-feálíce

(adv.)
Grammar
ge-feálíce, adv.
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Joyously, in joy Þæt wé ealle mótan on þás hálgan tíde ǽghwæðer ge for Gode and for worolde þý gefeálicor and þe blíþelícor lifian, Wlfst. 284, 16

in-snǽd

(n.)
Grammar
in-snǽd, es; m.
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Tó Óswaldingtúne hiérð holenhyrst ... and triphyrst and insnádis (-as ?) intó Óswaldingtúne, C.D. ii. 228, 4. Cf. in-wudu

on-ásetedness

(n.)
Grammar
on-ásetedness, e ; f.
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A laying on, imposition Ðá ðá foryldað and forgýmeleásiað ꝥ hig nellað heora bearn tó þám fulwihte and tó þǽre onásetednysse þæs bisceopes bletsunga bringan, Nap. 85

þǽnan

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Dele the second passage, for which see beþian, and add Hé ontýnde þone ǽspryng godcundra gewrita, and þǽnde ( rigabat ) þá mǽdwe geleáffulra móda, Gr. D. 34, 20

snǽdan

(v.)
Grammar
snǽdan, p. de

To take food, take a meal a meal food, meat

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To take food, take a meal Ðá hé com to Cantwarbyrig, ðá snǽdde hé ðǽr and his menn, and tó Dofran gewende Chr. 1048; Erl. 177, 31

Linked entry: snǽding

ge-stence

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-stence, -stænce; adj.

Fragrantodorous

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Fragrant, odorous He hafaþ hwítne wyrtruman and swýðe gestencne [-stæncne, MS. B.] it has a white and very fragrant root, Herb. 156, 1; Lchdm. i. 282, 19

Linked entry: ge-stænce

ge-þang

(n.)
Grammar
ge-þang, es; n.

Growth

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Growth Gyfe pund, ðanon him wæs geseald se fæt and geþang a pound of grace, thence was given him the fat and growth, Salm. Kmbl. 180, 12

Weolud

(n.)

the river Welland

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the river Welland Him cirde tó þurferþ eorl and ða holdas and eal se here ðe tó Hámtúne hiérde norþ óþ Weolud Chr. 921; Erl. 107, 29

for-gǽgan

to go beyondexceedtransgressto pass byomit to doneglectto pass away

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Herelof bócfellum ne sí forlǽten ł forgǽged ł forgýmeleásod nequaquam rumusculus [a nostris] pitaciolis excipiatur, An. Ox. 4571. Án strica oððe án stæf ðǽre ealdan ǽ ne bið forgǽged (iota ununt aut unus apex non praeteribit a lege, Mt. 5, 18), Hml.

mæsse-preóst

(n.)
Grammar
mæsse-preóst, es; m.

A priest not of the Christian churcha priest of the Christian church, who had attained the last of the seven appointed orders, and might celebrate the mass

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Nis ná máre betwyx mæssepreóste and bisceop búton se bisceop biþ gesett tó hádigenne preóstas, and tó bisceopgenne cild, and tó hálgyenne cyrcan, and tó gýmenne Godes gerihta, L. Ælfc. C. 17; Th. ii. 348, 25.

fylstan

to help (tó) to help

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Ic beóde ꝥ hý fylstan þám biscopum tó Godes gerihtum and tó mínum kynescipe and tó ealles folces þearfe, Cht. E. 230, 17: Wlfst. 268, 2: 295, 3: Ll. Th. ii. 312, 39. Ðám smeáwyrhtutn hé sceal tó tólan fylstan, Angl. ix. 263, 17.

ge-wyrd

(n.)
Grammar
ge-wyrd, e; f.

Eventfatedestinycondition

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Binnan ðam wendun gewyrda and gewát Eádrǽd cyng meanwhile matters changed and king Eadred died, Th. Chart. 207, 22

Linked entry: -wyrd