beard-leás
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Add:: For buteo = a young man, cf. Du Cange, buteo = juvenis; and see glossary in Hpt. 31, 16, 446, probum buteonem gódne geongan
béc-rǽde
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Reading of books Heó inne heora leornunge and heora béc-rǽdon beeódon illi intus lectioni uacabant , Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 354, 7 n
Linked entry: rǽde
mearc-hlinc
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A boundary hlinc (q. v. ) Eást tó mearchlince; and swá eást be ðæs bisceopes mearce, . . . be Byrhtswýðe mearce, C. D. vi. 33, 32
cwic
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On þám tíman ðe Eádwerd cing wes cucu and deád after King Edward's lifetime, C.D. iv. 233, 5: 13. Add
riht-racu
A correct account
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A correct account Ðá lýfde hé ðæt hé móste beón ryhtes wyrðe for mí[n]re forspǽce and ryhtrace Chart. Th. 170, 4
sám-hál
weak
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Not in perfect health, weak Nú ne beóþ náht fela manna ætsamne, ðæt heora sum ne sí seóc and sámhál, Wulfst. 273, 10
wacollíce
Watchfully ⬩ vigilantly
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Watchfully, vigilantly Hé (Gregory) wæs swíðe wacol on Godes bebodum, and hé wacollíce ymbe manegra ðeóda þearfe hogode, Homl. Th. ii. 118, 15
wǽg-þreát
A wave-host ⬩ the waters of the deluge
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A wave-host, the waters of the deluge Ic wille mid wǽgþreáte ǽhta and ágend eall ácwellan, Cd. Th. 81, 29; Gen. 1352
riht-lagu
Right or just law
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Right or just law Oferhogan godcundra rihtlaga, Wulfst. 164, 12. Ða ðe godcunde láre and woruldcunde rihtlage wyrdan on ǽnige wísan, 168, 8
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hilde-gráp
Hostile grasp
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Hostile grasp, Beo. Th. 2896; B. 1446: 5007; B. 2507. In the latter passage Thorpe and Kemble take gráp to be a verb
tó-borstenness
A breaking out, ⬩ abscess
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A breaking out, abscess Hý ðæra innoða tððundennysse and tóborstennysse (ῥήγματα) gehǽleþ, Lchdm. i. 322, 22. Similar entries v. tó-bersian, I a
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sýfer-ǽte
Moderate in eating, sober, temperate
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Moderate in eating, sober, temperate Sig se abbod clǽne and sýferǽte (sýfre, Wells Frgt.) oportet eum esse castum, sobrium, R. Ben. 119, 25
þǽr-néhst
Next to that
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Next to that Godes grið is ealra griða geornost tó healdanne, and þǽrnéhst þæs cynges, L. Eth. vii. 1; Th. i. 330, 3
wíf-leást
Lack of women
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Lack of women Menn hæfdon on frymðe heora mágan tó wífe, and swá wel mósten for ðære wífleáste, Homl. Skt. i. 10, 216
á-scirpan
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His mód and his ondgit ðæt gecynd áscirpð. . . his ondgit bið áscirped, Past. 69, 8, 13. Áscearptun exacuerunt, Ps. Srt. 63, 4. Add
þeów
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A servant; often with the stronger sense of slave; servus, famulus, mancipium Ic Béda Cristes ðeów and mæsse-preóst Baeda famulus Christi et presbyter, Bd. pref.; S. 471, 7. Se ðe wyle betweox eów beón fyrmest, sý hé eówer þeów (ðeá ł ðegn servus, Lind
þeóf
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A thief [the secrecy implied by the word is marked in the following passage from the Laws dealing with injury done to a wood: Fýr biþ þeóf ... sió æsc biþ melda, nalles þeóf, L. In. 43; Th. i. 128, 19-23. Cf. Goth. þiubjó έν κρυπτω] Þeóf fur, scaþa latro
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LEÓHT
LIGHT ⬩ a light
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LIGHT, a light Geweorþe leóht and leóht wearþ geworht fiat lux, et facta est lux, Gen. 1, 3. Tweóne leóht crepusculum: tweónul leóht maligna lux vel dubia, Ælfc. Gl. 94; Som. 75, 122, 125; Wrt. Voc. 53, 3, 6. Ðæt leóht ðe wé dægréd hátaþ the light that
Linked entry: líht
wræc
wrack ⬩ misery ⬩ suffering ⬩ suffering that comes as punishment, ⬩ retributive punishment ⬩ vengeance ⬩ where the punishment or misery is exile or banishment
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wrack, misery, suffering Ðæt cúþ is ðæt ðæt mid Drihtnes mihte gestihtad wæs, ðæt yfell wræc cóme ofer ða wiþcorenan quod Domini nutu dispositum esse constat, ut veniret contra improbos malum, Bd. I. 14; S. 482, 41. Ðæt wæs wræc micel wine Scyldinga,
eard
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Add: a land, country, region Óðres eardes landseta colonus, Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 49. Eall gærs and wyrta ealles eardes omnem herbam regionis, Gen. 2, 5. Ne þú ne ætstande on þisum earde nec stes in omni circa regione, 19, 17. Ealne þone eard Asiam, Hml.