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lencten-eorþe

(n.)
Grammar
lencten-eorþe, an; f.

veractum

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Land ploughed in the spring; veractum. Ducange gives 'veractum champ reonné' and refers to warectum 'terra novalis, seu requieta, quia alternis requiescit, sic dicta, inquit Edw. Cokus quasi vere novo victum, vel subactum.'], Ælfc.

Linked entry: eorþe

mete-láf

(n.)
Grammar
mete-láf, e; f.

A remnant of food

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On ðíne meteláfa in reliquias ciborum tuorum, Ex. 8, 3. Ða metláfo reliquias, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 14, 20

mónaþ-ádl

(n.)
Grammar
mónaþ-ádl, e; f.

A disease that occurs at intervals of a month

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Ðæt wíf mid ðý heó ðone gewunan þrowaþ mónaþádle cum in suetis menstruis detinentur ... Mulier dum consuetudinem menstruam patitur, Bd. i. 27; S. 493, 40-43

mund-heáls

(n.)
Grammar
mund-heáls, -háls, e; f. (?)

Safety which comes from the protection (mund) afforded by another

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Ðá se ælmihtiga ácenned wearþ siððan hé Marian mundheáls geceás when Christ was born, after he had chosen a safe retreat in Mary's protecting womb, Exon. 14a; Th. 28, 14; Cri. 446

rád-cniht

(n.)
Grammar
rád-cniht, es; m.
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In dome hominis, quem Angli vocant rádcniht, alii veto sexhendeman, Schmid. A. S. Gesetz. 93, note 6

rǽdesn

(n.)
Grammar
rǽdesn, (?), e; f.
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Voc. i. 33, 31] Rédisn vacedo (in a list de lignis ), Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 43. Rédisnae bacidones (cf. raedinne bacidones, 43, 26o : rǽdenne, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 59), Txts. 44, 1

geónian

(v.)
Grammar
geónian, part. geóniende; p. ode; pp. od

To yawn ⬩ hiāre

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Hí todydon heora múþ ongeán me swá swá leó ðonne he geónaþ aperuerunt in me os suum, sicut leo rapiens, Ps. Th. 21, 11

sund-plega

(n.)
Grammar
sund-plega, an; m.
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Play in the waterExon. Th. 205, 12; Ph. 111.182, 10; Gú. 1308.

súr-milisc

(adj.)
Grammar
súr-milisc, -melsc; adj.
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Having a mixture of sour and sweet in taste Apulder malus, súrmilsc apulder malus matranus, swéte apulder malomellus, Wrt. Voc. i. 32, 48. Ða mettas ðe strangunge mægen hæbben swá swá beóþ æppla nales tó swéte ac súrmelsce, Lchdm. ii. 176, 18

Linked entry: milisc

teóðung-georn

(adj.)
Grammar
teóðung-georn, adj.
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Sedulous in paying tithes Ælmysgeorn and cyricgeorn and teóþunggeorn tó Godes cyricean and earmum mannum eleemosynas libenter erogans, et ad ecclesiam libenter frequens, et sedulo decimas erogans ecclesiae Dei ac pauperibus, L. Ecg.

un-georne

(adv.)
Grammar
un-georne, adv.

unwillingly ⬩ reluctantly ⬩ without diligence ⬩ negligently

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unwillingly, reluctantly Ðá on ðæm tweón ðe hié swá ungeorne his willan fulleodon qui fastidiose ducem in disponendo bello audientes, Ors 3, 11; Swt. 146, 24. without diligence, negligently Ðæt hé tó ungeorne bewiste hwæt hé on þeóstrum dyde, Blickl

án-hende

(adj.)
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Gód is þé ánhende tó lífe þonne twá honda hæbbende siǽ sended in écce fýr, Mt. R. 18, 8. Blinde, ánhende caecos, debiles, 15, 30. Add

angel-twicce

(n.)
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-a) in Dict

alan

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Dele In the passage there given the glosser seems to have thought that parent might be from either of the two verbs parĕre, parēre, and has glossed it by foedað ł alaþ ł adeáuæð: the Rushworth gloss has only foedað ł aleð

burg-weg

(n.)
Grammar
burg-weg, es; m.
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a road to a burg (v. burg, Ia) Andlang burhslædes on burhwege, C.D. vi. 137, 20. a road in a town (v. burg, II), a street Hí námon ungeríme sceattas, and ealle ðá tówurpon geond þás rúman burhwegas, Hml. S. 23, 289

dirige

(n.)
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Ps. 5, 8) at Matins in the Office of the Dead, used as a name for that service Dirige for forþférdum vigilia pro defunctis, Angl. xiii. 433, 975: 444, 1131. [v. N. E. D. dirge.]

feax-wund

(n.)
Grammar
feax-wund, e; f.
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Gif in feaxe bið wund inces lang, geselle ánne sciłł. tó bóte. Gif beforan feaxe bið wund inqes lang, twégen sciłł. tó bóte, Ll. Th. i. 92, 17

for-fang

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Add: ¶ for-fang occurs in a list of emoluments accruing to the king (Edward the Confessor) and granted by him to Westminster

fleá

Grammar
fleá, Strong and weak forms occur of which the former seem the older
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Take II under fleáh albugo; with I take fleó in Dict., and add;

for-hrepian

(v.)
Grammar
for-hrepian, -hreppan(?)

to catch

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to catch In argscipe begrippene ł forrepene (reprehensam. Cf. repað reprehendit, R. Ben. I. 102, 2, and Icel. hreppa to catch. The strong form of the participle might be formed on the analogy of a verb like drepan), Jn. p. 5, 8

Linked entries: -repen for-repen