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Anglo-Saxon

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þræc-heard

(adj.)
Grammar
þræc-heard, adj.
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Kmbl. 245; El. 123

ymbeaht

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Olymbeactę ( = ob ymbeactę) ex conlatione , An. Ox. 53, 22. Add

inne-weard

(adj.)
Grammar
inne-weard, adj.

Inward ⬩ internal ⬩ interior ⬩ intestines ⬩ viscera

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Etaþ his heáfod and his fét and innewærde caput cum pedibus ejus et intestinis vorabitis, Ex. 12, 9. Innewerde, 29, 17

Linked entry: innan-weard

rignan

(v.)
Grammar
rignan, rínan; p. rínde. [A strong preterite occurs in the Blickling Gloss, rán pluit.
  • Cf.
In Elyes tyme heuene was yclosed þat no reyne ne rone (roon, MS. W.: roen, MS. R.: ron, MS. B.: raynade, MS. C.),
  • Piers P. 14, 62.
]

to rain, to cause rain to fall ⬩ to rain, to fall (of rain)

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Mon geseah weallan blód of eorþan and rínan meolc of heofonum sanguine e terra, lac visum est manare de coelo, Ors. 4, 3; Swt. 162, 7

Linked entries: regnian regnan rínan

emel

(n.)
Grammar
emel, e; f. A canker-worm, caterpillar, weevel; ērūca, brūchus = βροῦχος
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He sǽde and com gærshoppe and emel ðæs næs ná gerím dixit et vēnit lŏcusta, et brūchus cūjus non ĕrat nŭmĕrus, 104, 32

hwíte-cylle

(n.)
Grammar
hwíte-cylle, some kind of bag or
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H. 39, 956: culleum uas pice oblitum, 926 : in culleum, in follem bobulinum, et aliter machina contenta et bitumine lita, 67, 224), Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 14

nefa

Grammar
nefa, <b>. I.</b>
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Æftergengcum, nefenum nepotibus (haeredibus et futuris nepotum nepotibus), 3370

sǽ-mearh

(n.)

a sea-horse, a ship

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Kmbl. 490; El. 245. Fearoþhengestas, sǽmearas, 455 ; El. 228. Heáhstefn scipu, sǽmearas. Exon. Th. 361, 5; Wal. 15. ]

Linked entry: sǽ-hengest

ge-bletsian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-bletsian, -bledsian ; p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad [ge-, bletsian to bless]

To bless ⬩ consecrate ⬩ benedīcĕre ⬩ consecrāre

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Miltsa us mihtig Drihten, and us on móde eác gebletsa nú Deus misereātur nostri, et benedīcat nōbis, 66, 1. Ðæt ǽnig preóst ne forlǽte ða circan ðe he to gebletsod wæs that no priest forsake the church to which he was consecrated, L. Edg.

ge-nip

(n.)
Grammar
ge-nip, es; pl. nom. acc. -nipu; n.

A mist, cloud, darkness, obscurity ⬩ nĕbŭla, cālīgo, nūbes, tĕnebræ

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Wearþ genip, and ofersceadede híg facta est nūbes, et obumbrāvit eos, Lk. Bos. 9, 34. Ðæt genip stód æt ðæs geteldes dura the cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle, Ex. 33, 10: Cd. 8; Th. 9, 9; Gen. 139.

swinge

(n.)
Grammar
swinge, swynge (both forms occur in the Pastoral), an; f.

A stripe, stroke. ⬩ a stroke with a scourge or rod ⬩ chastisement, afflicting stroke ⬩ flagellum ⬩ a winnow, fan

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Ða hálgan men geðafedon on ðisse worlde monige swyngean and monige bendas and carcernu sancti verbera experti, insuper et vincula et carceres, Past. 30; Swt. 205, 12. metaphorical, chastisement, afflicting stroke Geféged tó ðǽm gefógstánum on ðære Godes

Linked entry: swynge

be-lidenes

(adj.; part.)
Grammar
be-lidenes, gen. pp. from be-líðan, q. v.

of the left or departed

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Kmbl. 1752; El. 878;

eáþ-médan

(v.)

To adore ⬩ adōrāre

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To adore; adōrāre Eáþmédaþ feorr adōrābĭtis prŏcul, Ex. 24, 1

Linked entries: eád-médan ge-eáþmédan

fieder

(n.)

a father

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Ex. 15, 2; Thw. 29, 2

fyrhþ-gleáw

(adj.)
Grammar
fyrhþ-gleáw, adj.

Wise-minded ⬩ prudent ⬩ prūdens ⬩ săpiens

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Kmbl. 1758; El. 881

leóf-spell

(n.)
Grammar
leóf-spell, es; n.
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Kmbl. 2032; El. 1017

líf-weard

(n.)
Grammar
líf-weard, es; m.

Christ

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Kmbl. 2069; El. 1036

lind-weorud

(n.)
Grammar
lind-weorud, es; n.
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Kmbl. 283; El. 142

nyhtness

(n.)
Grammar
nyhtness, e; f.

Abundance

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Abundance Of nyhtnisse ex abundantia, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 12, 34

sealm-leóþ

(n.)
Grammar
sealm-leóþ, es; n.
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A psalm Sealmleóþ and hearpswég psalterium et cythara, Blickl. Gl

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