on-slúpan
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to unloose, untie þâ þwangas þâra scôna ongunnon heom sylfe onslûpan ( dissolvere ), Gr. D. 221, 23
Linked entry: slúpan
on-wrigenness
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Add On sprǽcum háliges gewrites oððe on dígelum onwrigennyssum (-wrigenessum, v. l. ), Gr. D. 139, 1
þrower-hád
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Martyrdom Þæs þrowerhádes martyrii, Gr. D. 231, 8 n. Underfón þone þrowerhád martyrium subire, 233, 20
un-ástyrigendlic
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Hé stód þǽr ealle þá niht unástyrigendic (-onstyrgendlic, v.l.) immobilis perstitit, Gr. D. 225, 4. Add
Linked entries: un-onstyrigendlíc á-styrigendlic
un-feor
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Ðá wæs þǽr unfeorr (náht feorr, v.l. non longe ] sum mynster, Gr. D. 103, 23. Add
wǽtian
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Hí gemétton ꝥ stánclif swǽtende and wǽtgende rupem monetis sudantem invenerunt, Gr. D. 113, 10. Add
wearg-cwedol
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Add: given to reviling Wyrigcwidole men maledici (revilers, l Cor. 6, 10), Gr. D. 207, 29
-weþer
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Hé breác weþera fella for sadole vervecum pellibus pro sella utebatur, Gr. D. 34, 12. Add
wídgilness
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Geond þá wídgelnysse (-gil-, v.l. ) þæs muntes per devexum mantis latus, Gr. D. 12, 10. Add
wíte-lic
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Prophetic Se wlitelica (wítelica ?; wítiendlica, v.l.) cwyde prophetica senientia, Gr. D. 139, 18. Cf. wíte-dóm
wiþer-broca
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Hí beóð geswæncte fram heora wiðerbrocum (-brecan, v.l.) eos adversarii fatigant, Or. D. 204, 21. Add
beám-wer
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a weir made of logs Beneoðan beámwer on ðone norðere steð, C. D. v. 148, 31
byrgen
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Þá lícþénunge . . . þiére byrgene (his bebyrginge, v. l. ), Gr. D. 84, 6. v. eorꝥgen, ge-byrgen
æscstede-ród
A cross marking a battlefield
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A cross marking a battlefield ? Of dære greátan apeldre on æscstederóde, C. D. iii. 135, 22
fyrs-íg
An island on which furze grows
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An island on which furze grows On Beferíge; ðonne on Fyrsíge, C. D. v. 300, 17
ofer-wenian
to become insolent
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to become insolent Oberwenide insolesceret, Wrt. Voc. ii. 111, 34. Oberwaenidae, Ep. Gl. 12 d, 20
Linked entry: wenian
crencestre
A female weaver ⬩ a spinster ⬩ textrix
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A female weaver, a spinster; textrix Cod. Dipl. 1290; A. D. 995; Kmbl. vi. 131, 32
be-licgan
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Add: I. to surround Ealne middangeard ymbféran swá gársecg beligeð orbi terrarum circumfluum nauigare oceanum, Nar. 20, 15. Ðæt innlond beligeð án dic útane, Cht. E. 161, 29. Italia land belíð Wendelsǽ ymb eall útan, Ors. I, 1; S. 22, 17.
ge-hwearf
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Add: — Ðis is biscopes gehwearf and ðára hígna ðára londa æt Beórhám . . . (cf. in the charter so endorsed: Placuit archiepiscopo ejusque familia . . . aliquam vicissitudinem terrarum inter se habere), C. D. B. i. 526, 19.
Grendel
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Add: The form Grendel occurs several times in place-names On Grendles mere (in Wilts.), C. D. B. ii. 364, 11. In Grendelsmere; of Grendelsmere (in Staffs.), iii. 223, 29. Tó Grendeles gatan, 605, 14. On Grendeles pyt; of Grendeles pytte, 667, 5.