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(pronoun.)
Grammar
gé, gen. eówer [iwer]

yeyouvosύμεîs;yourof youvestrumvestriύμŵνto youvobisύμîνyouvosύμâsthou

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Gé ðe on húse standaþ you who stand in the house; tu qui stătis in dŏmo, Ps. Th. 133, 2. Gebíde gé on beorge abide you on the mount, Beo. Th. 5051; B. 2529. Hwylc eówer quis vestrum? Mt. Bos. 6, 27 Án eówer ūnus vestrum, 26, 21.

Linked entries: eów eówer eówic Þú

lyge

(n.)
Grammar
lyge, es; m.

A lieligfalsehood

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Mán on móde, in múþe lyge, 80 b; Th. 302, 13; Fä, 35

mǽg-bót

(n.)
Grammar
mǽg-bót, e; f.

The 'bót' paid to the kinsman of a slain man for the slaying of the latter

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Let them both increase in proportion to the 'wer' . . . If he (the slain man) strove against him that slew him, then let there be no 'bót' to the godfather just as there is no 'wite' to the lord, L. In. 76; Th. i. 150, 13-20.

ge-scý

(n.)
Grammar
ge-scý, es; n.

A pair of shoescalceamentum, tegmentum pedis, caliga

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In Idumea lande ic aþenige gescý mín in Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum, Ps. Spl. 59, 9; Ps. Th. 59, 7 has On Idumea mín gescý sende. Gescý calceamentum, Ps. Spl. 107, 10: Ps. Th. 107, 8.

Linked entries: -scý ge-sceó ge-scóe

steort

(n.)
Grammar
steort, es; m.
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Start Point in Devon, Start Island in the Orkneys) Andlang weges ðæt hit sticaþ on norðeweardum cynges steorte, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 48, 9. Of ðæm weall tó steorte, 464, 25. Be gemǽre ðæt on ðone steort; of ðam steort on ða strǽt, 438, 22.

Linked entry: stert

cíle

Grammar
cíle, l. cile,
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And þec ceolas weorðian, forst and snáw, winterbiter weder, Az. 103. v. céle, cýle (l. cele, cyle) in Dict. and at cýle dele foreign forms in bracket

ge-tyngnes

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Take here ge-tingnes in Dict., and add: skill in speaking, v. ge-tynge; I Getingnes eloquentia, peritia, Wrt. Voc. ii.143, 23. Getingnesse facundia, 34, 16. Meterlicere getincnesse gegódod metrica facundia (i. eloquentia) fretus, An. Ox. 125.

hlinian

(v.)

to reclineto lean

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Voc. ii. 111, 73. to recline, lie on a couch for rest (or to eat; in translation of Latin -cumbere forms) Se wulderfulla on godewebbenum beddum hlinað, E. S. viii. 473, 18. Wíf ongeat ꝥte hlionade (sæt, W. S., accubuit) in hús, Lk. L. 7, 37.

mennisc

(n.)
Grammar
mennisc, n.
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Add: mankind, men in general Bið unstrengre ménnisc ðurh máran týddernysse, Hml. Th. ii. 370, 17. Eal mennisc wæs synfull, 472, 2.

nídan

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</b> to force in a particular direction, for a particular object :-- Ná ꝥ án gódu gehealt, ac heó áweg nýt (repellit) wyþerwerde, Scint. 13, 10.

scead

(n.)
Grammar
scead, scæd, scad, sced, es; n.

Shade

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On ðam sceade his geteldes in abscondito tabernaculi sui, Ps. Th. 26, 6. Manna bearn hopiaþ tó ðæm sceade ðínra fiðera filii hominum in protectione alarum tuarum sperabunt, 35, 8. Ðonne on sceade weaxeþ, Exon. Th. 214, 5; Ph. 234.

spelian

(v.)
Grammar
spelian, p. ode

To act as the representative of anotherto representto take, or stand in, the place of another

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To act as the representative of another, to represent, to take, or stand in, the place of another Pronomen spelaþ ðone naman ... Gif ðú cwest: 'Hwá lǽrde ðé?' ðonne cweðe ic: 'Dúnstán.' 'Hwá hádode ðé?'

Linked entry: speliend

tó-sceád

(n.)
Grammar
tó-sceád, es; n.

a separating,distinguishing,distinctionthe faculty of distinguishing objects presented to the minddiscriminationdiscerningdifference,diversity

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a separating, distinguishing, distinction Ne sié fram abbode háda tósceád on mynstre gehealden non ab abbate persona in monasterio discernatur, R. Ben. 12. 7.

symbelness

(n.)
Grammar
symbelness, e; f.

Festivity, solemnityfestivity, feastinga religious festivalsolemnityfestive nature

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In dege mérum symbelnisse (sollemnitatis) eówerre, Ps. Surt. 80, 3. Symelnysse, Ps. Spl. 80, 3. On ðære Eástorlícan tíde symbelnysse in ipso tempore festi Paschalis, Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 40.

Linked entries: symbel symbel-calic

Æðelrǽd

(n.)
Grammar
Æðelrǽd, Æðelréd, Æðeréd, es; m. [æðele noble, rǽd counsel]

ÆlhelredÆthelrédÆthelrédus

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When 896 winters were passed after his birth, and in the fourth indiction year, then in that year Æthelred alderman assembled all the witan of the Mercians together at Gloucester, bishops, and aldermen, and all his nobility; and did that with the knowledge

Linked entry: Æðelréd

mancus

(n.)
Grammar
mancus, es; m.

A mancusthe eighth of a poundthe sum of thirty pence

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In Cnut's laws the heriot of an earl included twá hund mancus goldes (which is rendered in a Latin version by quinquaginta marcas auri, v. Schmid. p. 309, so that the mancus is the fourth of a marc), L. C. S. 72; Th. i. 414, 8.

ge-glengan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-glengan, -glencan, -glæncan, -glencgan, -glengcan; p. -glengde, -glencde; pp. -glenged, -glencged, -glengd, -glend

To adornembellishset in ordercomposeornārecōmĕrecompōnĕre

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Ðæt he æfter medmiclum fæce in sceópgereorde mid ða mǽstan swétnesse and inbrydnesse geglencde, and in Englisc gereorde wel gehwǽr forþbrohte hoc ipse post pŭsillum verbis poēticis maxĭma suāvĭtāte et compunctiōne compĕsĭtis, in sua, id est, Anglōrum

Linked entry: glengan

æt-standan

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II. in Dict.). to stop, remain in a certain state Hé ne ætstent ł hé ne þurhwunaþ non subsistet , Ps. L. 102, 16. ꝥ hús wearþ forburnen. . . see Ætstód se streám swá steáp swá munt, Hml. Th. ii. 212, 22

dǽd-bétan

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Ástrecce hé hine eallum limum on þám stede þe hé stande, and on þá wísan mid hreówsunge dǽdbéte oð se abbod hine geswícan háte proiciat se in terram in loco quo stat, et sic satisfaciat usque dum ei jubeat abba ut quiescat ab hac satisfactione, 70, 18

HELM

(n.)
Grammar
HELM, es; m.

HELMhelmeta crownthe topovershadowing foliage of treesa covering

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l0: Runic pm. 18; Kmbl. 342, 31; Hick, Thes. i. 135. a covering [in this sense the word is preserved in some dialects.

Linked entry: helmiht