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sweord-bora

Grammar
sweord-bora, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Þæs cyningces sweordbora ( spatharius: spatharii munus erat spatham sive ensem principis gerere, ejusque latus custodire) wæs Ricgo geháten, Gr. D. 130, 31. Þæs forecwedenan Narses sweordbora Bulgatisc man, 300, 21.

þyncan

Grammar
þyncan, <b>. I</b> I.
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Hit þúhte him feáwa daga videbantur illi panci dies, Gr. D. 29, 20. Add

mód-sorh

(n.)
Grammar
mód-sorh, gen. -sorge; f.

Care or sorrow of mindsorrow of soul

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Care or sorrow of mind, sorrow of soul Eác is hearm Gode, módsorg gemacod, Cd. 35; Th. 47, 3; Gen. 755. Hé módsorge wæg hefige æt heortan sorrow of soul bore he heavy at heart, Exon. 48a; Th. 165, 6; . 1024: Elen. Kmbl. 122; El. 61.

healdan

Grammar
healdan, <b>; XI 4.</b>
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Add Bryce healdan, . 701. Take Chrd. 54, 26 to XIII

þúsend

Grammar
þúsend, <b>.
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</b&gt; add Ágefen Alchhere and Aeðelwold hire twá ðúsenda, and fón him tó ðém londe, C. D. i. 310, 24. Ic gean án þúsend werð fen . . . ꝥ healfe þúsend fen, iv. 59, 17-23

seócan

(v.)
Grammar
seócan, p. <b>seác.</b>
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To be ill Þysum cnihte seócendum (aegrotanti) and forneáh tó his ænde gelǽddum, Gr. D. 338, 24

cásus

(n.)
Grammar
cásus, gen. cásūs; m.
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Gr. 7; Som. 6, 16, 17, 20, 22, 25, 28. Ðás six cásus these six cases, Som. 6, 32. Cásus, ðæt is fyll oððe gebígedniss a case, that is, a declining or inflection, Ælfc. Gr. 14; Som. 17, 23.

mád

(adj.)
Grammar
mád, (v. ge-maad vecors,
  • Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 36
); adj.

Unreasoningfoolishmad

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Unreasoning, foolish, mad Þrinteþ him on innan ungeméde mád mód within him (one guilty of oferhygd) swells a mind displeasing by its folly, Exon. 83 b; Th. 315, 2; Mód. 25

talian

(v.)
Grammar
talian, <b>. I a.</b>
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<b&gt;I c.</b&gt; add :-- Sé unryhtlíce talað, sé ðe talað ðæt hé sié unscyldig incassum se innocentes putant, Past. 335, 12. Add

un-fyrn

Grammar
un-fyrn, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Hé wæs nú unfyrn (nú for lyttlum fyrste, v.l.) forðféred ante non longum tempus defunctus est, Gr. D. 71, 18. add "Hé deád byð unfyrn" . . . þírn ódran dæge æfter þæs Godes weres cwide hé his líf geendode, 62, 28.

swinge

Grammar
swinge, <b>. I.</b>
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Þá hrepode Martinus mid ánre swingan ( Martin gave the man a slight stroke ?) and eall seó sárnis him sóna fram gewát ... þurh Martines hrepunge, Hml. S. 31, 589.

macian

(v.)
Grammar
macian, <b>. I.</b>
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S. 16, 310. with sb. preceded by tó, or simple dative Ic macige þé mycelre mǽgðe faciam te in gentem magnam, Gen. 12, 2. Hé wolde hine macian tó gode, Ælfc. T.

gán

Grammar
gán, <b>;
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</b&gt; add Gif hwá gǽð sittan æt wega gelǽtan si quis in biuiis residere temptauerit, Chrd. 61, 6. (2 a) add :-- Sleah þriwa on ... sió heáfodpanne gǽþ onriht sóua, Lch. ii. 342, 7

cweþ ðú

(v.; pronoun.)
Grammar
cweþ ðú, say thou, cweðe he let him say, cweðaþ, cweðe ge say ye, Ælfc. Gr. 33; Som. 37, 33, 39: Mt. Bos. 3, 9: Gen. 50, 19; impert.
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of cweðan

eall

Grammar
eall, <b>. I 1 a.</b>
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<b&gt;I 1 b.</b&gt; add :-- Man déle æal healf ꝥ yrue, C.D. iii. 273, 5. <b&gt;I 2.</b&gt; add :-- He hine ealne gewǽpnode, Hml. S. 25, 280. <b&gt;II 3 a.</b&gt; dele Nar. 9, 10, and add :-- Him eall þá eágan floterodon, Hml.

þeáw

Grammar
þeáw, <b>II b.</b>
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<b&gt;II c.</b&gt; add :-- Hit is þeáw þǽre sprǽce and þǽre áscunge ꝥte simle þonne ðǽr án tweó of ádón biþ, þonne biþ ðǽr unrím ástyred, Bt. 39, 4; F. 216, 17. v. cniht-, weorold-þeáw. Add

mægen-strengþu

(n.)
Grammar
mægen-strengþu, indecl.: <b>-strengþ,</b> e; f.

Great strengthpower

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Ic siges mihte and mægenstrengþe swá micele eów sille ðæt eów tó gamene feónda áfillaþ swá fela swá reccaþ I will give you so great victorious might and power, that it shall be sport to you to slay as many foes as you can count, Wulfst. 132, 19

frum-cirr

Grammar
frum-cirr, <b>-cerr, -cyrr.</b>
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Take here <b&gt;frum-cyrr</b&gt; and add: definite, first time as opposed to second, third, &amp;c. Æt frumcirre . . . æt óðrum cirre . . . æt þriddan cirre, Ll.

cancer

(n.)
Grammar
cancer, gen. cancres;
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a cancer, an eating or spreading disease; cancer, morbus Gif ðú wille cancer ablendan, genim ðonne fífleáfan ða wyrte: seóþ on wíne if thou desire to stop a cancer, then take the herb fiveleaf: boil it in wine, Herb. 3, 9; Lchdm. i. 88, 20.

Grammar
ié, gen. dat.
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of eá, Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 8, 10, 11, 14