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un-gemetgod

(adj.)
Grammar
un-gemetgod, adj.

Immoderateexcessiveintemperateindiscreet

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Ne durre wé ðás bóc ná miccle swíðor gelengan, ðí læs ðe heó ungemetegod sý, Homl. Th. ii. 520, 4. Ungemetegod lufu, 220, 6: Homl. Skt. i. 16, 276. Tunge ungemetegud(-ad) lingua immoderata, Scint. 78, 10: Kent. Gl. 507.

Linked entries: ge-metgian un-gemetegod

wíce

(n.)
Grammar
wíce, an; f.
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Ne gedyrstlǽce nán lǽwede man ðæt hé wissunge oððe ealdordóm healde ofer Godes ðeówum. Hú dear ǽnig lǽwede man him tó geteón Cristes wícan? Homl. Th. ii. 592, 28. Þonne hig bysega nabbon on heora wícum quando vacant, R. Ben. 84, 19

á-delfan

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Seó eorðe wæs swíðe heard and hé ne mihte heó ádelfan, Hml. S. 23 b, 768. to dig up a plant Ádelf niþerweardne sláhðorn, Lch. ii. 92, 30: 230, 6. Ádelfe ompran, 78, 1. to dig out, pick out Up ádelfað effodiant (oculum corvi ), Kent. Gl. 1092.

Linked entry: a-dylf

bíme

(n.)
Grammar
bíme, (ié, é, ý), an; f.: bíma; m.?

a trumpeta tabletbillet

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Ne bláu þú béman (nelle ðú béma ł stocc singa, L.) noli tuba canere, Mt. R. 6, 2. Gebreces and biémena dæg dies tubae et clangoris, Past. 245, 6. Býmum classibus, Hpt. Gl. 467, 27. a tablet, billet Beeme thessera, Txts. 101, 2015

Linked entries: býme beám

beó

(v.)
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Ne ásponð nán man þíne beón. Lch. i. 397, 3. Genim deáde beón, gebærne tó ahsan, ii. 154, 19. Biá apes, Rtl. 119, 28

bringan

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Hé þá sprǽce ne mihte bringan tó nánum ende, Bt. 41, 3; F. 246, 29. Bringende delaturos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 28, 56. ꝥ yrfe ꝥ him brungen (bróht, v. l.) wæs, Gr. D. 201, 10. Add

fel

human skin

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Nán scyldwyrhta ne lecge nán scépes fell on scyld, 208, 10. Hé breác weðera fella for sadele vervecum pellibus pro sella utebatur, Gr.

first-mearc

an intervala respite

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Hé wilnode fyrsþmearce (inducias) . . . hé gewilnode þára fyrstmearca, ac hé þá ná ne onféng, 326, 18-20

ge-rǽde

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-rǽde, adj.
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Ben. 108, 24. arranged, disposed properly Ne wyrð nǽfre folces wise wel gerǽde on þám earde þe man wóh gestreón lufað a people's condition will never be well ordered in the land where wrongful gain is loved, Ll. Th. ii. 312, 28.

ge-scý

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'Ne bere gé mid eów . . . gescý (calciamenta)' . . . Hwæt mǽnað þá gescý ?, Hml. Th. ii. 522, 19-25. Gescý calceos, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 46. Ic bicge hýda and fell . . . and wyrce of him gescý (calceamenta) mistlices cynnes, Coll. M. 27, 31.

ge-swicennes

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Seó sóðe behreówsung and dǽdbót mid geswicennyssum yfeles ús áþwyhð, 12, 144. abstaining from doing again what has been given up. v. ge-swícan; Gif hé ágylte, hé hit georne gebéte and syððan geswíce; for ðí ne bið nán bót náht búton þǽr beó geswicenes

ge-brǽdan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-brǽdan, to roast.
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Nán ðing hreáw, ne on wætere gesoden, ac gebrǽd tó fýre, Hml. Th. ii. 264, 5. Dǽl fisces gebrédedes (-bréddes, R.), Lk. L. 24, 42. Gebrǽdedne æppel, Lch. ii. 132, 14. Genim gósa tungan gebrǽdde, 90, 8.

god-borh

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Gif hwá óðerne godborges oncunne and tión wille ꝥ hé hwelcne ne gelǽste þára þe hé him gesealde if any one bring against another a charge in the matter of a pledge whose validity was confirmed by invoking the name of the Deity (where solemn formulae were

on-beódan

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add: to command Scipia hit oftrǽdlíce hám onbeád ( sent nome orders) þæt hié hit ne angunnen, and eác self sǽde, þá hé hám of Ispánium cóm, Ors. 4, 12; S. 308, 34.

þolian

(v.)
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</b> to be without what is unpleasant or evil Heora reáfes gyrla swilc beó ꝥ hé þolige ǽlces ýdeles uanitatis occasione careat, Chrd. 65, 13. ꝥ nǽfre þǽr (in hell) ne þoliað þæs wítes þá þe nǽfre in þisum lífe willað þolian þǽre synne and hyre

ridda

(n.)
Grammar
ridda, an; m.

a horsemanridera mounted soldier

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Ðá gemétte Martinus ánne nacodne þearfan, and his nán ne gýmde, ðeáh ðe hé ða riddan ðæs bǽde ... Ðá hlógon ða cempan sume, 500, 19-28

sceabb

(n.)
Grammar
sceabb, scæb, sceb, es; m.

Scab, a scab

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Se hæfþ singalne sceabb se ðe nǽfre ne blinþ ungestæððignesse. Ðonne bí ðæm sceabbe swíðe ryhte sió hreófl getácnaþ ðæt wóhhǽmed jugem habet scabiem, cui carnis petulantia sine cessatione dominatur.

Linked entries: scaed sceb

ge-andswarian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-andswarian, ge-ondswarian.

to answerto respond

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D. 210, 9. to respond with action Ðonne ðæt mennisce mód Godes glædmódnesse mid gódum weorcum ne geandsworað cum largientem Deum humana mens boni operis responsione non sequitur Past. 391, 6

ofer-hogian

(v.)

to despise, contemn, scorn, disdain

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Warniaþ ðæt gé ne oferhogian ǽnne of ðysum lytlingum, Mt. Kmbl. 18, 10. Ða gýmeleásan and ða oferhogiendan hé sceal mid wordum þreágan, R. Ben. 13. 15

Linked entry: ofer-hycgan

COT

(n.)
Grammar
COT, cott, es; pl. nom. acc. cotu; gen. cota; dat. cotum, cottum; n.

A COTcottagehousebed-chamberdencasadomuscubiculumcubilespelunca

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We witan ðæt hý ne durran hý selfe æt hám æt heora cotum werian we know that they dare not defend themselves at home in their own houses Ors. 3, 9; Bos. 69, 26. Ingá in cotte ðínum intra in cubiculum tuum Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 6, 6.

Linked entries: eald-cot cott