Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

hémed-scipe

Entry preview:

Substitute: in a good sense, the state of matrimony Hǽmedscipes gemánan hymenei ł connubii commercio, Hpt. Gl. 482, 7. in a bad sense, cohabitation without marriage Hǽmed-rimes ł [hæmed]scipes lenocinii, seductionis, Hpt. Gl. 521, 40

heóf-sang

Entry preview:

Dele

heáh-þungen

Entry preview:

Heáhþungen perspicuus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 5. Cnæht mín héhðungen bið suíðe puer meus sublimis erit valde, Rtl. 1, 27. Bútan þæt þá bysena heáhþungenra lǽrað nisi majorum cohortantur exempla, R. Ben. 29, 19. Add:

hell-cund

(adj.)
Grammar
hell-cund, adj.

Infernaldevilish

Entry preview:

Infernal, devilish Þæt helcunde wered the host of devils. Wlfst. 254, 15

hell-deófol

Entry preview:

the god of the infernal regions Heldióbul Orcws, Wrt. Voc. ii 115, 64. Heldeófol, 63, 49. Add:

Linked entry: hell-deófol

helle-duru

Entry preview:

Tó þám sweartum tintrehstówum helleduru (tintreges gómum helledures (= -dores?), v.l.) hí hine gebróhton ad nefandas tartari fauces perducunt, Guth. Gr. 131, 185. Þonne wendeð Scs. Petrus fram þǽre helleduru, and hé belúceð þá helleduru, Verc. Forst.

helle-fýr

Entry preview:

On hwylc gerád is hit tó gelýfanne ꝥ ꝥ líchamlice hellefýr mage geniman þá unlíchamlican wísan þǽre sáwle ?, Gr. D. 303, 18. Hweþer hit sý tó gelýfanne ꝥ sý án hellefýr (unus gehennae ignis) . . . witodlíce án hellefýr is, 333, 13-16. Cwælmed in þǽm méstan

helle-gást

Entry preview:

a spirit of hell, an infernal spirit Ꝥ hé sigor hæfde betwyh þám óþrum heliegástum, Gr. D. 189, 26. Add:

helle-god

Entry preview:

Add:

helle-grund

Entry preview:

Add:

helle-hinca

Entry preview:

Add:

helle-hús

Entry preview:

Hellehús hafað forclas micle, Verc. Forst. 109, 6. Ꝥ hellehús is mid swíðe láðlicum gástum áfylled, 112, 2. Add

helle-mægen

(n.)
Entry preview:

the force or host of hell Þæt eall hellemægen for þæs fýres hǽto forweorðeð, Verc. Forst. 166

helle-smiþ

Similar entry: smiþ

helle-stów

(n.)
Entry preview:

an infernal region Be þám wítelicum hellestówum de locis poenalibus inferni, Gr. D. 332, 9

hell-god

(n.)

Dis

Entry preview:

the god of hell, Dis Helgodes Ditis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 95, 3: 27, 24

Linked entry: helle-god

hell-grund

(n.)
Entry preview:

the depth of hell Þú in hellgrundes (helle-, v.l.) ástige, Angl. xii. 507, 8

Linked entry: helle-grund

heal-stán

(n.)
Grammar
heal-stán, healstan(?), helsta(?)

a crust

Entry preview:

A flat cake with a hard crust, so called because of the hardness of its crust [cf. for similar terms pflasterstein in German, pavé in French, for a hard kind of cake], a crust Crustula similis haalstaan (crustalla halstán), Txts. 55, 604. Helsta vel

heán-líce

(adv.)
Entry preview:

Man sceal þá geoguðe geómorlíce lǽdan gehæft heánlíce mid heardum bendum and swá bysmorlíce bringan of heora éðle, Wlfst. 295, 17. Sume hí man heánlice hættode, Chr. 1036; Th. i. 294, 7, col. 2. Add

heán-mód

(adj.)
Entry preview:

Rä. 43, 17