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mete-leást

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Þǽr onsæt mycel hungor, and seó mycele wǽdl þǽre meteleáste genyrwde ealle þá landleóde fames incubuerat, magnaque onmes alimentorum indigentia coangustabat, Gr. D. 145, 6. Hú mage wé þus feáwa feohtan ongeán þás meniu, nú wé synd gewǽhte mid gewinne

mund-leów

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Munléuu vescada Txts. 104, 1055. Hé hét geótan wæter on mundleów misit aquam in pelvem Hml. A. 155, 102. Add

orsorg-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
orsorg-leás, (?); adj.
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Without security, anxious Ǽghwylc crísten mann smeáge on him sylfum hú nearo se síðfæt bið ðǽre synfullan sáwle. For þan ne sceal nǽfre se crístena man beón orsorhleás (-lic ?), Verc. Först. 138. 16

ortgeard-leáh

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Orcerdléh (mistakenly translates) pomerium, Hpt. 31, 11, 220

reád-leáf

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Dele '(?)', and add Andlang mearce tó reádléfan bécan, C. D. iii. 14, 7. On þæt reádleáfe treów; of ðám reádleáfan treówe, C. D. B. ii. 246, 28. (?)

reád-lesc

(n.)
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reddened skin (?) Mid reádlescum rubricatis (pellibus), An. Ox. 5324

Linked entry: reód-naesc

sealm-leoþ

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Sealmleóð psalterium, Ps. Rdr. 56, 9. Add

sorh-leás

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Add -Sorhleás secura, i. sine cura, An. Ox. 797

styfic-leáh

(n.)
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a cleared lea (?) Tó Bedegáres styuicleáge (given as sþicleáge from another MS.), C. D. B. iii. 694, 10. Cf. stivecleiam, 638, 2, and see Philol. Soc. Trans. 1895-8, p. 541

wǽpen-leás

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Þá hét se árleáse healdan þone hálgan ꝥ hé wurde wǽpnlǽs (ungewǽpnod. Hml. Th. ii. 502, 14) þám hæðenum. Hml. S. 31, 117. Add

wæter-leást

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For wæterlíste, Ps. Spl. 105, 14. Add

wíf-leás

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Wífleás man agamus antropus, sine coniuge homo, Hpt. 31, 15, 403. Add

wit-leást

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Widtlǽste uesaniae, An. Ox. ii. 174. Add

ynne-leác

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Ynnileác unio, An. Ox. 53, 14. Add

and-leán

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beard-leás

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Add:: For buteo = a young man, cf. Du Cange, buteo = juvenis; and see glossary in Hpt. 31, 16, 446, probum buteonem gódne geongan

meaht-leás

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Add: weak, impotent, powerless. physically Þá fǽringa sáh hé niðer sprǽce benumen and ealre his mihte . . . hé þurh-wunode swá unspecende and mihteleás forð oð þone Ðunresdæg and þá his líf álét, Chr. 1053; P. 182, 24. Hí wǽron mid þǽre meteleáste mihtleáse

feoh-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
feoh-leás, The word in B. 2441 means
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without wergild, where the slayer did not pay for the slain. Cf. 8. 2465

rest-leás

(adj.)
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rest-leás, ;adj.;

Restless, disturbed

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; Restless, disturbed; Á biþ ungestillod and restleás ðe mid ðám unþeáwum beléd biþ, R. Ben. 121, 14

rysc-leác

(n.)
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rysc-leác, es; n,

Rush leek, rush garlick allium scharnoprassum

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Rush leek, rush garlick; allium scharnoprassum Riscleác allans (allium?), Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 40