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woffian

(v.)
Grammar
woffian, p. ode

To raveblaspheme

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To rave, blaspheme Ðǽr wæs sum dysig mann plegol ungemetlíce, and tó ðám mannum cwæð, swylce for plegan, ðæt hé swýðún wǽre . . Hé woffode ðá swá lange mid wordum dyslíce, óð ðæt hú feóll geswógen. Homl. Skt. i. 21, 298. Woffode debacchatur, Hpt.

Linked entry: a-woffian

wóh-dáed

(n.)
Grammar
wóh-dáed, e ; f.

A wicked deedcrime

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Ne byð ðǽr nán stefen gehýred, búton wóp and wánung for wóhdǽdum. Wulfst. 139, 4

wróht-bora

(n.)
Grammar
wróht-bora, an; m.

an accuserinformer

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Ðonne wróhtbora (the devil) in folc Godes forð onsendeþ biterne strǽl, Exon. Th. 47, 31 ; Cri. 763. one who brings false accusations, a malicious person. Similar entries v. wróht, II Wróhtbora factiosa (cf. ða fǽcnan factiosam, 77, 46), falsa, Wrt.

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birhtan

(v.)

to shine

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to shine, literal Eall mín weorod for ðǽre micelnesse ðæs goldes scán and berhte, Nar. 7, 15. Byr[htende] coruscans, An. Ox. 4203. figurative Hé beforan manna eágum swá manigum wundrum sceán and berhte, Guth. 90, 11.

Linked entries: beorhtan brihtan

be-stapan

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be-stapan, l. be-stæppan,

to stepto tread

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Ð æt ðín fót ne bestæppe on his grinum, Hex. 52, 13. to tread, print a footstep þá lástas beóþ on þǽre ilcan onsýne þe hié þǽr on forman on þá eorþan bestapene wǽron, 61. H. 127, 21

beorcan

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Beorcende fox, Shrn. 141, 12. Hundas beorcynde, Lch. iii. 200, 25. ¶ beorcan on to bark at :-- Clypa ongén þissum deófles hunde þe þé on beorceþ, Shrn. 56, 32. Se wrítere sǽde ꝥ sum hund burce hetelice on ánne man, Hml. S. 31, 1132. Add

friþ-scipe

(n.)
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, a ship on ike look-out for hostile vessels (?) Of manegum landum máre ( more than the trinoda necessitas) landriht áríst tó cyniges gebanne, swilce is . . . scorp tó friðscipe and sǽweard, Ll. Th. i. 432, 8. [Thorpe would read fird-scipe.]

geond-faran

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Sideralis se circul hátte, for þan þá tunglan hine geondfarað, Angl. viii. 317, 35. to penetrate, permeate. Cf. þurh-faran Wæs ꝥ hús eall gefylled and geondfæren (? printed -tæren) mid stence fragrantia aspersa est, Gr. D. 286, 25

ge-syndrian

(v.)
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For 'R. Ben. . . . Lye' substitute: R. Ben. I. 56, 9, and add On eallum stówum yld ná sí gesindrod (discernatur) on endebyrdnesse, 105, 6.

helma

a helm

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Voc. ii. 98, 4. a person who directs affairs God is wealdend and steóra and steórróþer and helma, for þǽm hé riht and rǽt eallum gesceaftum swá swá gód steóra ánum scipe Deus est veluti quidam claims aique gubernaculum, quo mundana machina stabilis atque

heofon-cyning

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In 1. 6 for -cyning l. -cyninga, and add: of the first person of the Trinity Heofoncyninges lof singað Ceraphin, El. 748: An. 723. Hefoncyninges, Gen. 659. Hé hnigon mid heáfdum heofoncyninge, 237.

ides

(n.)
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Gl. 1196, and a weak form, idesan, glosses juvenculam (Ald. 29, 14), An. Ox. 2136. It is also found as a gloss to virgo in Aldhelm's poems (Ald. 191, 7), An. Ox. 15, 4; 17, 52: (Ald. 194, 14), An. Ox. 15, 5; 17, 59; 18, 29

langsumlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
langsumlíce, adv.
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long, during or for a long time Hit God siþþan longsumlíce wrecende wæs, Ors. 2, 1; S. 58, 17. Hé tó þǽre dura cóm and þǽr langsumlíce swýðe cnucede ( he knocked long and loudly ), Vis.

míl

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For unfriðe man mót freólsǽfenan nýde fulfaran betweónan Eferwíc and six míla gemeta, Ll. Th. ii. 298, 27. Add

niþer-lic

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Add Se deáð is nyðerlic (death has its place deep down) : hé is for þan nyðerlic : þeáh se man gewíte in ðá neowelestan scrafa þe on middangearde sý, þonne sceal hé þeáhhwæðere sweltan, Verc. Först. 103, 9-12.

on-unwísdóm

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Probably this word should be rejected, for the passage in which it occurs seems corrupt Ic wæs wiþerméde and unwísum nétenum gelíc geworden. Ac þu Drihten scyld mínre iugoþe and mín onunwísdómes ne wes þú gemyndig (= ?

pliht

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Lóce hwá þás bóc áwríte, wríte hig be þǽre bysne and for Godes lufon hí gerihte, þæt heó tó leás ne beó þám wrítere tó plihte and mé tó tále, Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 40.

sǽdere

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oððe hwí sceolde seó eorðe hyre wæstmas ofteón þám unscyldigum sǽde for ðám scyldigan sǽdere?, Hml. A. 36, 311-37, 315. Add

burg-bót

(n.)
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, instructio, iuuamen, munimen, munimentum, munitio, recuperatio, renouatio, restauratio, subsidium; urbium reparatio, iugis assolidatio; murorum reparatio; munitionis castellique auxilium; fossa aduersum inimicos facienda. v. fird and brycg-geweorc for

up-ryne

(n.)
Grammar
up-ryne, es; m.

A coming uprising of a heavenly bodycoming of day

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A coming up, rising of a heavenly body, coming of day Wiþ hire (the sun's) uprynæs, Bt. 25; Fox 88, 27. Fram sunnan upryne a solis ortu, Ps. Spl. 106, 3. Uprine, 112, 3. Æfter sunnan setlgange ǽr mónan upryne, Lchdm. i. 330, 18.

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