Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

ge-féran

(v.)
Grammar
ge-féran, p. -férde; pp. -féred.

To gotravelgo onbehavefareget oncomeget to a placeTo perform a journeyreach or get by goingobtainattainexperiencesuffer

Entry preview:

To perform a journey, reach or get by going, obtain, attain, experience, suffer Ðú scealt ða fóre geféran thou shalt perform that journey, Andr. Kmbl. 431; An. 715; 388; An. 194.

bisenian

(v.)
Grammar
bisenian, p. ode

model

Entry preview:

Hé gesyngað ðurh ðá ðe be him bisniað (per eos, qui se imitari fecerint, delinquant) ... ðýlǽs ðá untruman be him bisneden, 451, 27-30. to take the model for, model, form after a pattern, Similar entries v. bisen, Of þínum ríce wé bysniað eall ꝥ wé gódes

á-biddan

Entry preview:

Gif hé wolde ábiddan æt Gode, ðæt hé móste his feónde áfyllan, Chr. 626; P. 25, 11: 1093; P. 228, 15. where the person for whom is given Ðæt oft wǽpen ábæd his mondryhtne weapon oft it (a sheath) got for its lord Rä. 56, 12. where the purpose for which

Etna

(n.)
Grammar
Etna, indecl? Etne, Ætne, es; m.

Etna, the volcano of Sicily

Entry preview:

the island Lipara, which was next to it, could abide in their dwellings, for the heat and for the stench, 5, 4; Bos. 105, 9-12.

Linked entries: Ætne Etne

EALDOR

(n.)
Grammar
EALDOR, aldor, es, ; n: e;

lifevita

Entry preview:

Nalles for ealdre mearn he cared not for life, Beo. Th. 2889; B. 1442. He æt wíge gecrang ealdres scyldig he succumbed in battle, his life forfeiting, 2680; B. 1338: 4128; B. 2061.

Linked entry:

un-hár

(adj.)
Grammar
un-hár, adj.

Very grey

Entry preview:

Very grey (un- seems to have here the unusual force of an intensive) Hróðgár, eald and unhár (cf. the epithets elsewhere applied to him, gamolfeax, 1220; B. 608: blondenfeax, 3586; B. 1791), Beo. Th. 719; B. 357

Linked entry: un-

Centisc

(adj.)
Grammar
Centisc, adj.

KENTISH, belonging to KentCantianus

Entry preview:

KENTISH, belonging to Kent; Cantianus Seó Centisce fyrd corn ongeán hí the Kentish force came against them, Chr. 999; Th. 249, 6, col. 2. Ætsǽton ða Centiscan ðǽr the Kentish [men] remained there, 905; Erl. 98, 23

feówertig-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
feówertig-líc, adj.

Of or belonging to fortyquadrāgēnārius

Entry preview:

Of or belonging to forty; quadrāgēnārius He bebeád ðæt feówertiglíce fæsten healden beón jejūenium quadrāginta diērum observāri præcēpit, Bd. 3, 8; S. 531, 10. Ealle tíd ðæs feówertiglícan fæstenes tōtum quadrāgēsĭmæ tempus, 3, 23; S. 554, 31

hryte

(adj.)
Grammar
hryte, or hrýte; adj.

Balidinus'balidinusbalius

Entry preview:

Ducange has 'balidinus forte legendum badius vel balius nostris bay, bayard.'

nearu-níd

(n.)
Grammar
nearu-níd, -néd, e; f.

Sore needgrievous trouble

Entry preview:

on nearo nédum in confinement by force ], Andr. Kmbl. 203; An. 102. From naronéðe de angusta (as if, angustia? ), Lk. Skt. p. 8, 6

ge-dál

Grammar
ge-dál, <b>;
Entry preview:

Först. 89, 6

dyrst-lǽcan

Entry preview:

Ne dyrstlǽcen hí þæt hý út of mynstre etan non presumant foris manducare, 79, 16. Add

efen-lǽcend

Entry preview:

Þæt forme werod bið þǽra apostola and heora efenlǽcendra, Hml. Th. i. 396, 18. Hwæðer þes árwurða wer lǽfde ǽnie efenlǽcendras ( imitatores ) his mægena, Gr. D. 23, 1. Add

scild-truma

Entry preview:

Férde hé him hindan tó mid ðrým scyldtruman ( he went forth behind them in three companies, 1 Macc. 5, 33), Hml. S. 25, 423

tó-beran

Entry preview:

Först. 88, 6: 134, 4. to be separate Swá micel tó-bireð eástdǽl fram westdǽle quantum distat oriens ab occasu, Ps. Vos. 102, 12. Cf. tó-berenness

un-genemnendlic

(adj.)
Grammar
un-genemnendlic, adj.
Entry preview:

Þá semninga wearð hé mid fǽrlicum and ungenæmnendlicum deáile forþ-féred subita et inopinata (has in(n)ominata been read ? the Greek version has ἀγνώστῳ) morte defunctus est, Gr. D. 341, 13

Linked entry: ge-nemnendlic

treddan

(v.)
Grammar
treddan, p. de.

to tread under foottrample upon to investigateexamine

Entry preview:

to tread under foot, trample upon Treddun proterunt, Txts. 84, 749. to investigate, examine, v. á-treddan Weorð mé heorte forht ðǽr ic ðín hálig word tredde ii verbis tuis formidavit cor meum, Ps. Th. 118, 161

Linked entry: a-treddan

súþ

(adv.)
Grammar
súþ, adv.
Entry preview:

Fóron ðá súþ ofer Temese, Chr. 831; Erl. 68, 1. Súð ofer sǽ fóron, 897; Erl. 94, 28. Fóron súð ymbútan, 894; Erl. 91, 5. Seó sunne cymþ eft súð tó ðam winterlícan sunnstede, Lchdm. iii. 250, 24: 260, 10: Cd. Th. 118, 16; Gen. 1966.

ed-wít

Entry preview:

Ic þec hálsige þæt þú furður mé fraceþu ne wyrce, edwít for eorlum, Jul. 542. On edwít sellan in opprobrium dare, Ps. Th. 56, 3.

dysig

(n.)
Grammar
dysig, disig, dysi, es; n.

An error, ignorance, folly, foolishnesserror, stultĭtia, insānia. insĭpientia

Entry preview:

We sinna fela didon for úre disige we committed many sins through our foolishness, Hy. 7, 107; Hy. Grn. ii. 289, 107