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heofon-leóht

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Ðæt ofer his reliquias ꝥ heofonleóht (lux caelestis) ealle niht wæs ofer grstondonde, Bd. 3, II; Sch. 235, 9. Add

land-leód

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Add: a native of a country Landleód i[n]digena Wrt. Voc. ii. 44, 69. Londleód incola Ps. Srt. 38, 13: 118, 19. Londleóde incolae 104, 12. Þá landleóde hí hátað Parcoadras, Ors. I, i; S. 14, 9. Þá landleóde on þǽre stówe incolae Gr. D. 97, 31. Ealle þá

land-leód

(n.)
Grammar
land-leód, a people.
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Wunode á syððtan se sóða geleáfa on þǽre landleóde, Hml: S. 24, 190. Hé æt Somnite gemǽre and Rómáne gesæt, and þá níhstan landleóde on ǽgþere healfe him on fultum geteáh circa finitimas Romae urbes auxilia sibi adquirere studens Ors. 3, 7 ; S. 110, 7

leóþ-gidding

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Hér mæg findan foreþances gleáw, sé ðe hine lysteð leóðgiddunga, hwá þás fitte fégde, Hpt. 33, 72, 2. Add

leóþ-lic

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Hé mid leóðlicum metre be þám mónðum þus giddode, Angl. viii. 301, 34. Add

leóþ-sang

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Add: — Byriensang, leóþsang epitaphion, An. Ox. 902 (where see note)

leóþ-wís

(adj.)
Grammar
leóþ-wís, (?); adj.
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Poetical, rhythmical Celeuma, idem et toma, i. leta cantatio lewis (leóþwís ?) plega (for celeurna see gladung), Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 20

Linked entry: lewis

leóþ-wíse

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Þás þing magon fremian bet þonne þá þe beóð on leóðwísan fægre geglenged, Angl. viii. 304, 3. Add

líc-leóþ

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Lícleóð epicedion. Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 77 : carmen funebre, Hpt. Gl. 427, 62 : epitaphion, carmen super lumulum ł mortuo-rum, 70. Add

Lega-ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Lega-ceaster, e ; f.
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Chester Hié gedydon on ánre wéstre ceastre on Wírhealum, seó is Legaceaster (Leg-, Liege-, Lige-, v. ll. ) geháten, Chr. 894; P. 88, 6. Hé micele fyrd gelǽdde tó Legaceastre (Leige-, v. l. ad ciuitate Legionum, quae a gente Anglorum Legacaester, a Brettonibus

leód-geþyncþ

(n.)
Grammar
leód-geþyncþ, es. l.

leód-hwæt

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In the passage l. leódhwata, and add: cf. brego-róf, cyning-beald

leód-wita

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Add: cf. þeód-wita

leóht-bora

(n.)
Grammar
leóht-bora, an ; m.
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A light-bearer Ðá warð his leóhtbora áfyrht swýðe, Vis. Lfc. 36

Linked entry: bora

mægen-leást

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Sum lícðrowere náhte his féðes geweald . . . hé wolde geneálǽcan his hulce, gif hé mihte. Þá ofhreów ðám munece þæs hreóflian mægenleást, Hml. Th. i. 336, 11. Sume hí bebyrigan woldon, ac hí hrædlíce for mægenleáste swulton, 404, 2 : Hml. A. 68, 79. Gif

mete-leást

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Þǽr onsæt mycel hungor, and seó mycele wǽdl þǽre meteleáste genyrwde ealle þá landleóde fames incubuerat, magnaque onmes alimentorum indigentia coangustabat, Gr. D. 145, 6. Hú mage wé þus feáwa feohtan ongeán þás meniu, nú wé synd gewǽhte mid gewinne

mund-leów

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Munléuu vescada Txts. 104, 1055. Hé hét geótan wæter on mundleów misit aquam in pelvem Hml. A. 155, 102. Add

reád-lesc

(n.)
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reddened skin (?) Mid reádlescum rubricatis (pellibus), An. Ox. 5324

Linked entry: reód-naesc

scír-lett

(n.)
Grammar
scír-lett, a piece or
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measure of land On bisceopes scírlett; ofer ƀ. scírlett, Cht. E. 239, 9. Cf. geoc-led

sealm-leoþ

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Sealmleóð psalterium, Ps. Rdr. 56, 9. Add