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how

(n.)
Grammar
how, hop ?, es; n.
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A hill(?), mound(?) Oð ðæt wæstmæste how, C. D. v. 84, 1: 243, 4

hwem

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Add: a corner of a building Godes engel fleáh geond ðá feówer hwemmas þæs temples and ágróf mid his fingre róde tácn on þám fyderscýtum stánum, Hml. Th. i. 466, 13. a corner of the earen (north, &c.) Drihten wæs gefæstnod mid feówer nægelum

hós

(n.)
Grammar
hós, e; f.

A bramble, thorn

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A bramble, thorn Hós butrus, Wrt. Voc. 285, 27: rhamnus, vimen; butrus, Cot. 25, 165, Lye. Twígu ł hósa rhamnum, Ps. Spl. C. 57, 9

hrá

Similar entry: hrǽw

hwar

Similar entry: hwǽr

hweg

Similar entry: hwæg

hwig

Similar entry: HWÝ

hwylc

(pronoun.)

Similar entry: hwilc

hwat

(n.)
Grammar
hwat, es; n.
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Dele, and see hwatu

hwet

Similar entry: hwæt

hwol

Grammar
hwol, An. Ox. 37, 6. The word is given as a gloss to infingens in the passage : Inruit in quamdam spinulam . . . medelanium plantae ipsius
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infigens, Guth. Gr. 153

hwyrf

Linked entry: hwurf

hýf

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Tó hýfen ad aluearium, An. Ox. 3822. Hýfa cerea castra, i. aluearia, 113. Þes náhte náht óþres tó his ágnum bryce búton feáwa hýfa beona (pauca apum vascula), Gr. D. 229, 12 ; Angl. ix. 264, 15. ¶ the following glosses belong to passages referring to

hýr

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Add: payment contracted to be made for the temporary use of anything Sume men syllað eác cyrcan tó hýre swá swá wáclice mylna . . . ac hit ne gedafenað ꝥ man dó Godes hús ánre mylne gelíc for lyðrum tolle, Hml. S. 19, 248. <b>Ia.</b> where

bile-witlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
bile-witlíce, (-hwit-, v. Dict.); adv.

Simplyinnocentlyuprightlygently

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Gif hwá gonge bilwitlíce (simpliciter ) treów tó ceorfanne, 165, 25: 167, 6. Bielwitlíce (bile- ?, bil-, v. l.) libban simpliciter vivere, 239, 22.

hwínan

(v.)
Grammar
hwínan, p. hwán; pl. hwinon
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To make a whistling, whizzing sound [as an arrow, etc. in its flight] Ful oft of ðam heápe hwínende fleág, giellende gár full oft from that band flew whistling the shrieking javelin, Exon. 86 b; Th. 326, 12; Víd. 127

ǽg-hwár

Grammar
ǽg-hwár, ǽg-hwér

everywhere

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everywhere, Ors. 4,1; Bos. 76, 38

blǽ-hǽwen

(adj.)
Grammar
blǽ-hǽwen, blǽ-hwen, blǽwen; adj.

Of a blue hue, bluish, violet or purple colourcæruleus, perseus

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[bleó blue, hǽwen hued] Of a blue hue, bluish, violet or purple colour; cæruleus, perseus Moises scrídde ðone bisceop [Aaron] mid línenum reáfe, and girde hine, and dyde ymbe hine blǽhwene tunecan, and léde eaxlcláþ ofer hine Moses clothed the bishop

Linked entry: blǽwen

dæg-hwam

Grammar
dæg-hwam, l. -hwám,
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and add Dæghuǽm cotidie, Mt. L. 26, 55

hwæg

(n.)
Grammar
hwæg, hwæig, hweg, es; n. [?]

Whey

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Whey Hwæg serum, Wrt. Voc. 290, 36. Ðeówan wífmen hwæig on sumera to a servant maid shall be given when in summer L. R.S S. 9; Th. i. 436, 32 Sceáphyrdes riht is ðæt hé hæbbe ... blede fulle hweges oððe syringe ealne sumor 14; Th. i. 438, 25

Linked entry: hweg