líming
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The passage to which all three glosses belong is: Turrem . . . forti liturae compage constructam erexit, Aid. 62, 13. In Hpt. Gl. 509, 54 and An. Ox. 4439 the reading is linunge. Add
weorc-weorþ
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Först. 158, 20
þwástrian
to murmur ⬩ speak low
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to murmur, speak low Þis ic spece nú gyt mid swá miccle ege ðæt mé þinceþ ðæt mé sió tunge stomrige nis hit gyt forðun ðæt ic þwástrian durre I dare not yet even speak low, Shrn. 42, 35
Linked entry: hwǽstrian
mirigþ
Pleasure ⬩ joy ⬩ delight ⬩ sweetness
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Wá him ðære mirigþe búte hé ðæs yfeles ǽr geswíce alas for his delight, unless first he leave evil, Hy. 2, 6; Hy. Grn. ii. 281, 6. Hé ádrǽfed wæs of neorxena wanges myrþe ( paradisum voluptatis ), Gen. 3, 24. For ðære mirhte (mergþe, MS.
wirp
A change for the better ⬩ recovery ⬩ improvement
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Gé frófre ne wénaþ, ðæt gé wræcsíða wyrpe gebíden ye look not for comfort, that ye may live to see redemption from exile, Exon. Th. 132, 30; Gú. 480.
wirman
To warm ⬩ make warm
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Ða þeówas wyrmdon (uearmdonLind.) hig, for ðam hit wæs ceald, 18, 18. Cnuca mid wíne, and wyrm hit, Lchdm. i. 108, 7. Wyrm tó fýre, 374, 10. Wirman fovere, Wrt. Voc. ii. 33, 34.
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ge-manian
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</b> to make demand for a debt, to dun :-- Sum hafenleás man sceolde ágyldan healf pund ánum men and wæs oft gemanod for ðǽre lǽne, Hml. Th. ii. 176, 35. (O. Sax. gi-manón : O. H. Ger. ge-manón memorare, admonere, commonere.)
grénnes
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Cf. gréne; Wé ceorfað heáh treówu on holte ðæt wé hí eft úp árǽren on ðǽm botle ðǽr ðǽr wé timbran willen, ðeáh wé hí for hrædlíce tó ðǽm weorce dón me mægen for grénnesse, ǽr ðǽm ðe hí ádrúgien ( tamen non repente in fabrica (lignum) ponitur, ut prius
hosp
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Sé bið eádig þe for Críste ðolað wyriunge and hospas, Hml. Th. i. 554, 21. Add
wecgan
To wag (trans.), ⬩ move, shake
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Hwý gé ǽfre scylen unrihtfióungum eówer mód dréfan, swá swá mereflódes ýþa hréraþ íscalde sǽ, wecggaþ for winde (cf. swá swá ýþa for winde ða sǽ hréraþ, Bt. 39, 1; Fox 210, 25), Met. 27, 4. Hig wegdan, hrérdan heora heáfod moverunt capita sua, Ps.
ge-bycgan
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M. 27, 15-19. ꝥte hiá gebohte ut negotiarentur, Lk. p. 10, 1. of payment by the husband before marriage Gif mon wíf gebycgge, and sió gyft forð ne cume, Ll.
Ælfred
Alfred the wise, king of Northumbria for twenty years
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Alfred the wise, king of Northumbria for twenty years, A.D. 685-705. He was educated in Ireland for the Church, and was the first literaryy Féng Ælfred [MS.
eáster
the passover, paschal lamb ⬩ pascha
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Hence used by Teutonic christians for the rising of the sun of righteousness, the feast of the resurrection, Bd. de Temp. Rat. Works, vol. ii. p. 81: Grimm's Deut. Mythol. 8vo. 1855, pp. 180-183.]
tyhting
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For láre and for tiehtinge his ágenes firenlustes persuasione luxuriae, 50; Swt. 393, 7. Mid godcundre tihtincge divino instinctu, Anglia xiii. 384, 266. Mid welwyllendre tihtincga myngiende benevola intentione hortando, 448, 1179: Scint. 34, 1.
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wíslíce
wisely ⬩ sagaciously ⬩ with wisdom ⬩ prudently ⬩ wisely ⬩ skilfully ⬩ cunningly
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Hé wíslíce rǽdde for Gode and for worulde his þeóde, Chr. 959; Erl. 119, 26. Hit ða téð getrymeþ, gif his man wíslíce brúceþ, Lchdm. i. 334, 10. Bið nú wíslícor ðæt gehwá ðis wite, Homl.
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full-fremed
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Praeteritum plusquam perfectum is forðgewiten máre þonne fulfremed, for ðan ðe hit wæs gefyrn gedón, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 124, 5-9. v. un-fullfremed, full-fremman
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ge-mǽnelic
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Swá swá man gerǽde for gemænelicre neóde, Ll. Th. i. 324, l: 382, 2. ordinary Sume menn dyslíce fæstað ofer heora mihte on gemǽnelicum lenctene ( in Lent, which being of ordinary occurrence, did not eall for excess in fasting ?) Hml.
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wilnung
Desire
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Sum hláw, ðone men for feós wilnunga gedulfon, Guthl. 4 ; Gdwin. 26, 6. Ábisgod on ðisse worulde willnunga (wilnunga, v. l. ), Bt. 41, 3; Fox 246, 31.
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tíþe
to obtain one's request, ⬩ to have granted the request for something
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in the phrases tíþe(-a) beón, weorþan to obtain one's request, to have granted the request for something (gen.)