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glóf

(n.)
Grammar
glóf, e; a weak pl. glófan occurs; f. A

GLOVE ⬩ chirothēca ⬩ χειρoθήκη

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GLOVE; chirothēca = χειρoθήκη Glóf hangode, sió [glóf] wæs gegyrwed dracan fellum his glove hung, it was made with dragon's skins, Beo. Th. 4177; B. 2085. Glóf mantium? Ælfc. Gl. 27; Som. 60, 118; Wrt. Voc. 25, 58.

hafetian

(v.)

to clap ⬩ applaud

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Flódas hafettaþ hundum flumina plaudent manu, Ps. Spl. 97, 8. Ǽrðan ðe se hana hafitigende cráwe before the cock clapping its wings crow, Homl. Th. ii. 246, 4

Linked entries: a-fétigan hafe beaftan

swétan

(v.)
Grammar
swétan, p. te; pp. swéted, swét

To sweeten, make sweet. ⬩ to make pleasant

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To sweeten, make sweet. in a physical sense Nim hunig and swét ðone drænc, Lchdm. iii. 58, 30: ii. 120, 11. Swéte swíðe mid hunige, 216, 4. Swétedne, 111, 8, 15. to make pleasant Hé (the devil) mec féran hét, ðæt ic ðé sceolde synne swétan, Exon.

Linked entry: swétian

þrí

(n.; num.; adj.)
Grammar
þrí, þrý, þrié, þreó; m.: þreó, þrió, þré; f. n. (ðreá, ðriá, ðreó, ðrió in North.); gen. þreóra, þrióra (and ðreána in North.); dat. þrim (þrím? ðriim in North., but cf. Goth. þrim), later þreom.

Three

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Grammar þrí, in combination with other numerals, Grammar þrí, with cardinals, Grammar þrí, multiplicative Þreó hund fæðma, Gen. 6, 15. Þreó hund wera, Jud. 7, 6. On þisum þrim hundrydum, 7. Wiþ þrim hundred (ðriim hundum, Lind.) penegon, Jn.

Linked entries: þreó þrió þrý

pening

(n.)
Grammar
pening, penning, pending, penig, pennig, es; m.
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Tén hund (pund?) peñd ... Gedǽle hé ǽlcum Godes þiówe peñd ... þreóténe hund (pund ?) pending, Chart. Th. 471, 5-26. xiii. pund pendingæ, 474. 9. Mid .v. pundum mǽrra pæninga ( denarii meri ), L. Alf. pol. 3 ; Th. i. 62, 10.

Linked entry: pending

Bret-walda

(n.)
Grammar
Bret-walda, an; m.

A ruler of the Saxons in Britain, the chief Saxon king in England ⬩ Saxonum in Britannia rex supremus.

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Turner and Lappenberg suppose that the Bretwalda was elected by the other Saxon kings and by the collected nobility and other electors in Britain, because Hunt. lib. ii. about A.

scrid

(n.)
Grammar
scrid, es; n.

A carriage ⬩ chariot ⬩ litter

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Screoda siex hun[dred]a six hundred chariots (cf. Exod. 14, 7), Exon. Th. 468, 9; Phar. 5. Lígbǽrum scridum vel crætum flammigeris quadrigis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 14

Linked entry: scriða

a-lefan

(v.)
Grammar
a-lefan, to become weak.
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Þreó hund geára ylpas libbað, gif hí áléfede ne beóð, Hml. S. 25, 570. Wundru hé worhte on áléfedum mannum, Hml. A. 10, 255. Gegadera ðearfan and áléfede ( pauperes ac debiles, Lk. 14, 21), Hml. Th. ii. 374, 27.

botl

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Hét hé ontendan eal hire (the abbess Effigenia) botl, þǽr heó mid (má ðonne twám hund, cf. 476, 20) mǽdenum on gebedum ðurhwunode, ii. 478, 35. ¶ Bottle remains in local names, e.g. Newbottle

feórþa

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Cuóm feórþe healf hund scipa, Chr. 851; P. 64, 16. Wæs xxxiii wintra and þæs feórþan dǽl þæt hé lífes wegas tácnode for 33 years and part of the thirty-fourth he pointed out the ways of life, Bl. H. 129, 16.

hyll

(n.)
Grammar
hyll, es; m: e; f.

A hill

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Hí huntiaþ hí of ǽlcere hylle they shall hunt them from every hill, Homl. Th. i. 576, 28. Hyllas montes, Ps. Spl. C. 71, 3. Hyllas and heá beorgas. Cd. 192; Th. 240, 7; Dan. 383. Hyllas and cnollas, Exon. 18 a; Th. 45, 11; Cri. 717.

brýce

(adj.)
Grammar
brýce, adj.
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His hýd is brýce hundum wið wóles gewinne on tó dónne, Lch. i. 330, 3. Hé bið bríce tó ðám uferan dǽle þæs líchaman, 23, [v. N. E. D. briche. Goth. brúks useful, projitable: O. H. Ger. brúchi.] Add

hǽð-stapa

(n.)
Grammar
hǽð-stapa, an; m.

A heath-stepper, an animal which wanders over heaths or uncultivated country

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A heath-stepper, an animal which wanders over heaths or uncultivated country Ðeáh ðe hǽðstapa hundum geswenced heorot holtwudu séce although the heath-wanderer, the hart by the hounds wearied, seek that wood, Beo.Th. 2740; B. 1368.

teóðian

(v.)
Grammar
teóðian, teogoðian; p. ode.
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to take out a tenth part of anything On eallum geáre sind getealde ðreó hund daga and fíf and sixtig daga; ðonne gif wé teóðiaþ ðás geárlícan dagas ( if we take a tenth of the days of the year ), ðonne beóþ ðǽr six and ðrítig teóðing*-*dagas, Homl.

heáfod-mann

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Icel. höfuðs-maðr :-- Cóman twá hund scypa, þǽron wǽron heáfdesmenn Cnut and Hácon, Chr. 1076; P. 211, 37. <b>II a</b> α the head, captain of a band :-- ' Alǽdað mé tó . . . eówerne ealdor.'

CNEÓ

(n.)
Grammar
CNEÓ, cneów, es; n.

a KNEE ⬩ genu ⬩ a generation, ⬩ relationship ⬩ generatio, ⬩ propinquitatis gradus

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Óþ hund cneówa [MS. cnea] to a hundred generations Exon. 124a; Th. 476, 16; Ruin. 8 Binnan cneówe within relationship L. E. G. 12; Th. i. 174, 25.

Linked entry: cneów

lapian

(v.)
Grammar
lapian, p. ode

To lap ⬩ lick

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Lapien on hunig let them lap up honey, 16

ge-lynde

(n.)
Grammar
ge-lynde, es; n.
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Hundes gelynde. . . mid ealdum ele gemylt, 362, 21. Nim fearres gelyndo and beran smeru and weax, ii. 48, 5. Genim henne gelyndo, 310, 3

huntaþ

(n.)
Grammar
huntaþ, huntoþ, es; m.

Hunting ⬩ game ⬩ venatio

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Th. ii. 576, 34 Huntaþ dón gestreón getácnaþ to hunt betokens gain Lchdm. iii. 212, 2. Móna se fíf and twentigoþa huntoþas begán nytlíc the five and twentieth moon is good for all sorts of hunting 196, 1

hínþ

Grammar
hínþ, hínþu, hínþo.

misery ⬩ poverty ⬩ hurt ⬩ injury ⬩ destruction

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., and add: misery, poverty Sume beóþ wídcúþe on heora gebyrdum, ac hi beóþ mid wǽdle and mid hénþe (hǽnþe, v. l.) ofþrycte, ꝥ him wǽre leófre ꝥ hí wǽran unæþele þonne swá earme hunc nobilitas notum facit, sed angustia rei familiaris inclusus esse mallei

Linked entry: hýnþ