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sester

(n.)
Grammar
sester, seoxter, es; m.
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Wæs swýðe mycel hungor, and corn swá dýre, swá nán mann ǽr ne gemunde, swá ðæt se sester ( Henry of Huntingdon renders this : 'sextarius frumenti, qui equo uni solet esse oneri ') hwǽtes code tó, lx. penega and eác furðor.

Linked entry: seolfor-gewiht

set

(n.)
Grammar
set, es; n.
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Cf. set-gang, setl. of men, a place where people remain, of an army, a camp, entrenchment, cf. to sit down before a place Ne com se here oftor eall úte of ðǽm setum ðonne tuwwa, óðre síþe ðá hié ǽrest tó londe cómon . . . óðre síþe ðá hié of ðǽm setum

Linked entries: seotu set-gang siota

sibling

(n.)
Grammar
sibling, es; m.
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Úre frýnd geseón and úre siblingas gegrétan, ii. 526, 33. Siblingum contribulibus, propinquis, parentibus, Hpt. Gl. 472, 23

Sicilie

(n.)
Grammar
Sicilie, pl.
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The Sicilians, the people of Sicily, or (as in the older stage of the language the name of a people was used where now that of their country is put) Sicily. [In this sense the Latin form also occurs *-*Sicilia, églond micel, Met. 1, 15.

slápian

(v.)
Grammar
slápian, p. ode
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To cause to sleep, used impersonally with acc. ; cf. O. H. Ger. mih sláphóta dormitavit anima mea Ne geþafa ðú ðínum eágum ðæt hié slápige ne ne hnappigen díne brǽwas . . . Ne slápige nó ðin eáge (eágan, Cote. MSS. ) . . .

sigorfæstness

(n.)
Grammar
sigorfæstness, e ; f.
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Victoriousness Be sigerfestnisse and swíð*-*módnisse úses Drihtnes mid ðǽm hé ða hǽþnan ofercom, Anglia xi. 173, 12

Linked entry: sigefæstness

simble

(adv.)
Grammar
simble, symble, simle, siemle, semle, symle ; adv.
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Hié wǽron simle healfe æt hám, healfe úte, Chr. 894 ; Erl. 90, 17. In ðé sáule sóðfæstra simle gerestaþ, Exon. Th. 4, 16 ; Cri. 53 : Met. 20, 238. Semle, 20, 198. Ic siemle mid ðé beó, Bt. 7, 3 ; Fox 22, 23. Hé symle Drihtne folgode, Homl.

Linked entries: symble symle

sín

(adj.; pronoun.)
Grammar
sín, possess, pron.
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This pronoun, which is regularly used in the cognate dialects, rarely occurs in English prose, where its place seems to have been early taken by the genitive of hé, heó, hit. referring to a sing. masc.

síd-feax

(adj.)
Grammar
síd-feax, -feaxe, -fexe ; adj.
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U. Sídfexe capillatus, Ælfc. Gr. 43 ; Zup. 256, 10 note. Hí lange tíd eodon ealle unscorene and sídfeaxe, Th. Ap. 6, 12. Sume gáþ sídfeaxe, ðæt hý þurh ðæt wiðmetene sýn Samuele and Elian and óðerum hálgum ðe sídfeaxe wǽron, R.

scild

(n.)
Grammar
scild, sceld, scyld, es; m.
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Icel. skjöldr is used of shield-shaped things) Is se scyld ufan frætwum geféged ofer ðæs fugles bæc, 219, 17; Ph. 308

Linked entries: scyld hrung sceld

scín

(n.)
Grammar
scín, scinn, es; n.
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Ða hǽþenan deófle offrodon . . . and ða brǽðas ðæs flǽsces stigon upp on ǽlce healfe eall swilc hit mist wǽre . . . ða hǽþenan on swilcon deófolscíne (altered to -scinne) blissedon, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 39.

Linked entries: scinn scinna sunn-scín scýn

scip-fæt

(n.)
Grammar
scip-fæt, es; n.
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Wright has the following note on this entry: The nef, a vessel in the form of a ship, used in the church from an early period to hold the incense, as well as other articles

stǽr

(n.)
Grammar
stǽr, stér, steór, es; n.
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On ðis úre cyriclíce stér, 4, 7; S. 574, 28

stíþlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
stíþlíce, adv.
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Hé stíðlíce þrowode for úre ealra neóde, Wulfst. 126, 10. Hý fuhton stíðlíce ymbe ða hálgan sáwle, 236, 23. Hé hit sceal swíðe stíðlíce gebétan, L. E. I. 14 ; Th. ii. 412, 2. Hé wæs gescrýd wáclíce and stíðlíce, Homl. Th. i. 330, 2.

stóc

(n.)
Grammar
stóc, (stoc ?). A word occurring mostly in local names, either alone or in compounds. The meaning seems, like that of stów, to be place (in the first instance perhaps a place fenced in, cf. (?) staca), and both words remain now only as names of places,
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(With these two passages may be compared the following :-- Apud locum ubi uulgari dicitur nomine æt Stówe, 323, 32.) In Stóce . . . in Súthstóce, 75, 25, 33.

Linked entries: stóc-weard stóc-wíc

stede

(n.)
Grammar
stede, es; m.
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</b> fig. stability, unchanging condition, fixity :-- Nán stede nis úres líchaman; cildhád gewít tó cnihtháde and cnihthád tó geðungenum wæstme, 490, 2. Stede ł staþal statum, stabilitatem, Hpt. Gl. 469, 12. <b>IV b.

Linked entries: bed-stede hám-stede

stefning

(n.)
Grammar
stefning, stemning, e; f.
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a turn, used of service where one set of persons replaces another. (In E.

Linked entries: stefnan steming stemning

steóp-

(prefix)
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The form seems to have been used in the first instance in combination with words denoting children, to mark loss of parents, and then to have been combined with father, mother to express the relation of one who married the mother or father of an orphan

steór

(n.)
Grammar
steór, and stýr, e; f.
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Eallum him sceal beón án steór and án lár æfter heora geearnunga anddyfene una prebeatur in omnibus secundum merita disciplina, R. Ben. 13, 7. Steór correptio, Scint. 117, 8. Ðæt man cýde búton steóre intingan, Homl. Th. ii. 590, 23.

stópel

(n.)
Grammar
stópel, es ; m.
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Forlét úre Drihten his ða hálgan fét ðǽr on ða eorþan besincan . . . and swá núget on ðære eorþan ða stóplas onáþrycte syndon, Blickl. Homl. 127, 14-26

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