Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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níþ

Grammar
níþ, adj(?).
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Dele and see preceding word

pundernian

(v.)
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See preceding word

un-gemæcca

(n.)
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See preceding word

Linked entry: ge-mæcca

áþ-swara

(n.)

an oath.,

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., and next word

bát-swán

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Dele, and see next word

beáw-hyrnet

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Dele, and see preceding word

splottian

(v.)
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to spot, blot. v. preceding word

þearfleáse

(adv.)
Grammar
þearfleáse, adv.
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Needlessly, without cause. v. preceding word

dúnian

(v.)
Grammar
dúnian, p. ode (?)
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To fall down. v. next word

eald-hryter-flǽsc

Grammar
eald-hryter-flǽsc, l. eald hrýþerflǽc (v. Angl. viii. 451) = eald-hrýþer-flǽsc ?
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v. preceding word

ge-hýþig

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-hýþig, adj.
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Convenient, suitable, agreeable. v. next word

Linked entry: -hýþig

ge-sníðan

(v.)
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See preceding word

awel

Grammar
awel, For awl, as given in Dictionary, substitute flesh-hook, and dele reference to
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æl, which is a different word

lactuca

(n.)
Grammar
lactuca, an; f. This word seems to retain its Latin form in the nominative, but otherwise conforms to English usage, and is generally treated as a weak noun. The form lactucas, however, occurs in the Leechdoms, which, though it looks like a strong plural masc., seems to be singular
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Lactuca hátte seó wyrt ðe hí etan sceoldon mid ðám þeorfum hláfum heó is biter on þigene lettuce was the name of the herb that they were to eat with the unleavened loaves; it is bitter in the eating, Homl. Th. ii. 278, 26. Nim lactucan ánc hand fulle

here-geatu

Grammar
here-geatu, [The word occurs very rarely in the singular; indeed be hergeate,
    Ll. Th. i. 412, 26,
seems the only instance that number. Plural forms are n. ac. -geatwei,(-a), -geata(-u, -e); dat -geat-wum, -geatum.]
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Add: Eahta hund eóredmanna ealle mid heregeatwum gegerede, Nar. 4, 13. Twégen englas gesceldode and gesperode and mid heregeatwum (heora geatwum, v. l.; but see Bl. N. 24), Bl. H. 221, 28. Beón þá heregea a (-e.v.l.) swá hit mǽðlic sý, Ll. Th. i. 414

smiþ-cræftig

(adj.)
Grammar
smiþ-cræftig, adj.
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Skilled as a smith, v. next word

twing

(n.)
Grammar
twing, (twyng ?) what is pressed together (?), a mass, lump: — Twinga massas.
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Gl. 496, 70. v. next word

þicfildan

Grammar
þicfildan, v. ge-þicfyldan (l. geþycfyldan
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densere, Germ. 401, 21). v. preceding word

brycg-bót

Grammar
brycg-bót, v. bric-bót
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., and see the following word

dǽd-læt

(adj.)
Grammar
dǽd-læt, adj.
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Slow to act, slothful. v. next word

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