Grendel
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GRENDEL, a monster destroyed by Beowulf Grendel mǽre mearcstapa, se ðe móras heóld, fen and fæsten Grendel the great traverser of the march, that ruled [held] the moors, the fen and fastness, Beo. Th. 205-208; B. 102-104. [Grendel] reste genam þrítig
BRIDEL
A BRIDLE ⬩ frenum
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Gl. 15; Som. 58, 46; Wrt. Voc. 21, 35. Bridles midl a bridle's middle, a bit; camus, 21; Som. 59, 61; Wrt. Voc. 23, 22 : Runic pm. 21; Kmbl. 343, 26; Hick. Thes. i. 135.
þynne
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Þá fatu þá þe hé geát ǽr swýðe lytelne dǽl þæs þynnestan wǽtan vasa in quibus tenuissimum liquorem infuderat. Gr. D. 59, 15. Add
stæl-here
A marauding band ⬩ predatory army
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A marauding band, predatory army Hié fóron út mid stælherge nihtes ... and genómon unlytel ǽgðer ge on mannum ge on ierfe, Chr. 921; Erl. 106, 13. Drehton ða hergas West-Seaxna lond mid stælhergum, 897; Erl. 95, 9.
neáh-west
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Búton hit sy elles hwylc þe máran Godes ege habbe, þæt hit for his neáweste þe betere beó for Gode and for worolde, 269, 13
fǽr-lic
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quick, rapid Hé mid fǽrlicum (swiftum, v.l.) ryne (rapido cursu ) gecyrde, Gr. D. 115, 22. Cf. fǽrlíce; IV
þyrstan
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Add Gif him þyrste, ðú dó him drincan, Hml. S. 21, 376. 2. Add Þonne seó sáwl þyrsteð and lysteð Godes ríces Deum sitiens anima, Gr. D. 244, 27
myndgian
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. ) Wé magon beón suá nyttran æt him, gif wé hié myndgiað hira gódna weorca utilius apud illos proficimus, si et eorum bene gesta memoramus, Past. 211, 21.
tídre
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Þone hád týdera manna infirmantium personam, Gr. D. 267, 18. Add
CLYSTER
A CLUSTER ⬩ bunch ⬩ branch ⬩ botrus ⬩ βότρυς ⬩ racemus ⬩ propago
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Ic geseah wíneard, on ðam wǽron þreó clystru videbam vitem in qua erant tres propagines Gen. 40, 10, 12
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alþes
of ale ⬩ cervisiæ
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of ale; cervisiæ [MS. cervise],Rtl. 116, 42
seolh
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Þæs nama is Seólesíg (Sýleseá, v. l.) quod dicitur Latine insula uituli marini, Bd. 4, 13; Sch. 521, 10. Ðá cómón twégen seólas of sǽlicum grunde, and hí mid heora flýse his fét drýgdon, and mid heora blǽde his leoma beðedon venere duo de profundo maris
under-standan
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</b> add Ic geanbidode swíþe wet oþ ic wiste hwæt þú woldest, and hú þú hit understandan woldest; and eác þý furþor ic tiolode geornfullíce ꝥ ðú hit forstandan mihtest I waited till I knew what you would, and in what way you would conceive of it
feówertig
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add: Lch. ii. 284, 21: Gr. D. 98, 14
cýpa
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Grammar cýpa, <b>cýpe,</b> an; f. Substitute: A basket Cýpan corbes, An. Ox. 18, 3. Þǽr tó láfe wǽron XII cýpan fulle, 3657 note: Lk. 9, 17 (in Dict.)
on-standan
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<b>IIa.</b> to insist, persist in demand :-- Hiá onstôdon stefnum miclum illi insta-bant uocibus magnis, Lk. L.
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mond
- Exon. 40 b ;
- Th. 134, 26 ;
- Gú. 514.
rǽdan
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<b>II b.</b> add: to say in consultation :-- Ðeáh ðé mon hwylces hlihge, and ðú ðé unscyldigne wite, ne réhst ðú hwæt hý rǽdon oððe rúnion, Prov. K. 12. <b>II c.
GEÁR
A YEAR ⬩ annus
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Ðríwa on gére thrice a year, Thw. Exod. 23, 17. Hæfde me éce geár ealle on móde annos æternos in mente hăbui, Ps. Th. 76, 5 : Lk. Bos. 2, 36. Þreó and þritig geára three and thirty years, Cd. 224; Th. 296, 16; Sat. 503.
mǽrþu
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Gen. Thw. 3. 31