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wíg-heard

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Add: warlike, martial Wíhearde bellicosas, An. Ox. 783

ymb-lǽrgian

(v.)
Grammar
ymb-lǽrgian, ymb-lǽrigian.
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Sýn ymblǽrgide ambiuntur, An. Ox. 8, 377. Add

Linked entry: lǽrig

mearcere

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Wrí[terum], mearcerum notariis, An. Ox. 5447. Add

eáþmód-heort

(adj.)
Grammar
eáþmód-heort, adj.
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Humble of heart, humble-minded Eáðmódheorte, Az. 152

breogo-stól

(n.)

a throne, kingdom,

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a throne, kingdom, Andr. Kmbl. 417; An. 209

heáfod-mága

(n.)
Grammar
heáfod-mága, an; m.

A near relation

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A near relation, Andr. Kmbl. 1884; An. 944

ge-tǽsnes

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tǽsnes, se; f.

An opportunitya savingplacingcommoditas,

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An opportunity, a saving, placing; commoditas, Cot. 55

hilde-corðor

(n.)
Grammar
hilde-corðor, es;n.

A warlike troop

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A warlike troop, Apstls. Kmbl. 82; Ap. 41

bearn-lest

Grammar
bearn-lest, bearn-leást.
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Bearnleás(t)e orbitatis, An. Ox. 4873. Add

EARM

(adj.)
Grammar
EARM, ærm, arm; comp. earmra; sup. earmost; adj.

poor, miserable, helpless, pitiful, wretchedpauper, mĭser the poor and destitute for whom the church made a provision paupĕres

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The king and his witan have chosen and decreed, as is just,—that a third part of the tithe, which belongs to the church, go to church-repair;—and a second part to the servants of God;—a third to God's poor, and the needy in thraldom, L.

búan

(v.)
Grammar
búan, bún, búgan (-ian, -ean), búian, búwian, bógian, q.v. in Dict.; býa in N. Gospels; p. búde, búgede, bógode, býede; pp. bún, búd, býed.
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Add: intrans. To dwell Huér búes (býes, R.) ðú ubi habitas? , Jn. L. 1. 38. Þá búað oð Méda burh habitantes usque ad Medorum civitatem, Nar. 33, 16. Þá þe in Norþhymbrum búgeað, Chr. 894; P. 86, 7: 924; P. 104, 20.

eax-faru

(n.)
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an expedition in carriages(?) Aexfaru aparatu (perhaps a gloss on Ald. 64, 10 :-- Scythicae gentis impetum, quae cum infinito duelli apparatu proficiscens. In An. Ox. 4560 the word is glossed by fyrdungce ), Txts. 41, 186

gydig

(adj.)
Grammar
gydig, adj.
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Possessed by an evil spirit, mad Þæne gidian limphaticum, s. Saul (gy[digne], þæne gidigan limphaticum, i. vecordem, Hpt. Gl. 520, 63: cf. limphaticum wódan, Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 56), An. Ox. 5009. Cf. god

Linked entry: gidig

LǼTAN

(v.)
Grammar
LǼTAN, p. lét, leórt; pp. lǽten. The ellipsis of a verb in the infinitive, the meaning of which may be inferred from the context, not unfrequently takes place after lǽtan; and the connection of many of the meanings which follow with the simple one seems explainable in this way.

to LETallowpermitsufferto letlet gogive updismissleaveforsakeletto letcausemakegethavecause to beplace make as ifmake outprofesspretendestimateconsidersupposethinkto behave towardstreatto let

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Æt ealre ðære hergunge and æt eallum ðám hearmum ðe ǽr ðam gedón wǽre ǽr ðæt friþ geset wǽre man eall onweig lǽte and nán man ðæt ne wræce ne bóte ne bidde as regards all the harrying and all the injuries that were done before the peace was made, let

Linked entries: aweg-lǽtan leórt

láf

Grammar
láf, <b>. I.</b>
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Add: what is left, a remainder Éce láf (v. éce ; I.), Exod. 370. Láfa, belíuendras superstites, i. uiui, An. Ox. 3313. ¶ in the phrase tó láfe as remainder, remaining, left Þrý dagas nú tó láfe syndan, Bl. H. 231, 14.

hweogol

(n.)
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Add:, hweogola (?), an; m. a wheel of any kind Ǽlc gesceaft hwearfað on hire selfre swá swá hweól, Bt. 25 ; F. 88, 33.

Linked entries: sceard-hweogol hwegl

eáster

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Substitute: <b>Eástre,</b> an (es in North); pl. an, on, un. [In W.

ECG

(n.)
Grammar
ECG, e; f.

EDGE, a sharpness, blade, sword ăcies, acūmen, glādius, ferrum

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Ecga [MS. ecge] mihton helpan æt hilde swords might help in battle. Beo. Th. 5360; B. 2683: 5649; B. 2828. Mid gryrum ecga with terrors of swords, 971; B. 483. Æscum and ecgum with spears and swords, 3548; B. 1772.

here-wæsmun

(n.; adv.)
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Leo and Heyne connect with a root meaning rage, fury, v. Leo. 494.

Linked entry: wǽsma

hrepung

(n.)
Grammar
hrepung, e; f.

Touchtouching

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Ða andgitu sint gehátene ðus . . . tactus hrepung on eallum limum the senses are named thus ... tactustouch, in all the limbs, Homl. Swt. 1, 199: Homl. Th. ii. 372, 26.