Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

hǽmed-þing

Entry preview:

Add: with no sense of criminality Þes bisceop sǽde... ꝥ hé nǽfre on his lífe ne cóme neáh wífe þurh hǽmedþing, ac heóld his clǽnnysse, Hml. S. 3, 204.

gramlic

Entry preview:

Ne cwæð þú ná goda, ac gramlicra deófla, 8, 59. of things Nǽron hí geneádode tó ðám gramlican geþeahte, Hml. S. 27, 166. Hé genam áne cuppan mid cwealmbǽrum drence ... and begól þone gramlican drenc, 14, 76.

hin-síþ

Entry preview:

Perhaps the glosses took the word to be plural and used in the sense 'end of life', and intended to express the idea by hinsíðas. Cf. insíðgryre for hinsíðgryre, Sae. 456), Txts. 181, 39. Add:

leó

Entry preview:

Add: gen. f. leó pas Grécisce naman . . . hic leon þeós leó ; ac wé forlǽtað þone n on Lédensprǽce and cweðað leó, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 42, 1. Swé swé leá sicut leo;, Ps. Srt. 16, 12: ii. 184, 40.

un-cúþ

Grammar
un-cúþ, <b>. I.</b>
Entry preview:

Add

slíþen

(adj.)
Grammar
slíþen, adj.

Cruel, hard, evil

Entry preview:

Hú slíþen biþ sorg tó geféran how cruel is care as a comrade Exon. Th. 288, 12; Wand. 30. Hé him feorgbona þurh slíþen searo weorþeþ a destroyer of life through cruel craft to him he becomes 362, 25; Wal. 42.

Linked entry: slíþe

sorh-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
sorh-leás, adj.

free from anxiety or caresecurefree from sorrow

Entry preview:

Ne sculon wé nǽfre sorhleáse beón, ac symble úrne deáðes dæg beforan úres líchoman eágum settan, L. E. I. prm.; Th. ii. 396, 22. Wé gedóþ eów sorhleáse securos vos faciemus, Mt. Kmbl. 28, 14. Þeóf, ðe on þýstre færeþ, sorgleáse hæleð forféhþ, Exon.

ge-téman

(v.)
Grammar
ge-téman, -týman; p. de; pp. ed

To vouch to warrantyvocare ad warrantum

Entry preview:

A process by which a person, in whose possession lost or stolen property was found, was compelled to show from whom he bought or had it, which latter was, in like manner, obliged to declare how it came into his hands, and so on to a third holder, beyond

Linked entry: tíman

ge-þýwan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-þýwan, -þýan, -þíwan, -þéwan, -þeón, -þeówan; p. -þýwde, -þýde; pp. -þýd

To pressimpelurgeforceimpressrebukeoppressprĕmĕretrūdĕreurgērecompellĕreimprĭmĕreincrĕpāreopprĭmĕre

Entry preview:

Hí mec þingum geþýdan they pressed me violently, Exon. 123 a; Th. 472, 10; Rä. 61, 14. Geþýd and geþreátod rebuked and threatened, Andr. Kmbl. 871; An. 436.

tó-ferian

(v.)
Grammar
tó-ferian, p. ede

To carry in different directionsdiffeneto removeget rid ofto put offto digestdigerere

Entry preview:

remove, get rid of Hit ðæt sár tófereþ, Lchdm. i. 114, 3: 108, 8: 130, 19: 190, 8. to put off Swá oft gebiddende ná raþe beóþ gehýrede úre ús dǽda on eágum wé tóforan settan ðæt ðæt sylfe ðæt wé synd tóferede ná godcundre byþ geteald rihtwísnysse ac

a-lecgan

(v.)
Grammar
a-lecgan, -lecgean; he -legeþ, -legþ, -lehþ, pl. -lecgaþ; p. -legde, -léde , pl. -legdon, -lédon; pp. -legd, -léd; v. trans. [a from, lecgan to lay] .

to placelay downthrow downsuppresslay asidecease fromponerecollocareprosterneredeponereabjicererelinquereomittereto imposeinflict uponimponereimmittereto diminishtake awayrefuseimminueredeprimerereprimere

Entry preview:

Alecgende word ðæt is deponens verbum, for ðan ðe he legþ him fram ða áne getácnunge, and hylt ða óðre.

un-gelífed

(adj.)
Grammar
un-gelífed, adj.

Not possessed of beliefunbelievinginfidel

Entry preview:

Paulus spræc swíðe egeslíce be ungelýfedum mannum: hé cwæð: 'Ða ðe Godes ǽ ne cunnon, and búton Godes ǽ syngiaþ, hí eác búton Godes ǽ losiaþ,' 52, 22: i. 460, 26: Blickl Homl. 63, 22. Ungelýfdum, 55, 32

Linked entry: ge-lífan

wille

(n.)
Grammar
wille, es; m.

A well, spring, fountain

Entry preview:

A well, spring, fountain Se wylle fluvius, Bd. I. 7 ; S. 478, 29 note. Hé is se libbenda wylle (-a ?) fons vivus Ps. Th. 41, 2. An tuddeles þorn, and an hróces wylle; . . . þonne an lawernwylle . . .

Linked entries: welle willa

sib

(n.)
Grammar
sib, sibb, e; f.
Entry preview:

<b>I a.

lád-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
lád-líce, adv.

Hatefullydetestablyhorriblyunpleasantly

Entry preview:

Wit gewídost lifdon láðlícost we should live as far apart as possible, and in most grievous sort, Exon. 115 a; Th. 442, 17; Kl. 14

twi-bille

(adj.)
Grammar
twi-bille, adj.
Entry preview:

Double-edged Bipennis twibille vel stánæx (the double gloss seems to render the double character of the Latin word as adjective and noun; a little later (see preceding word) in the same glossary bipennis as noun is rendered by twybill ), Wrt.

Linked entry: -bille

á-bryrdness

(n.)
Grammar
á-bryrdness, e; f.
Entry preview:

Gl. 434, 56) amoris, An. Ox. 1184. Mid his heortan ábryrdnysse intentione cordis, R. Ben. 80, 12. Mid sibbe and mid sóðre ábryrdnysse, 106, 1. compunction, contrition Ábryrdnesse conpunctionis, An. Ox. 601: penitudinis . i. penitentie, 1768

Linked entry: á-brednes

á-cumba

Entry preview:

Ácumba putamina, An. Ox. 3293: s[t]uppea, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 9. Naptarum heordena ácumba, 59, 48. Ácumban putamine, An. Ox. 3728. Ácuman putamina, 2, 187. Ðá hét se undergeréfa ontendan hí mid ácuman, Hml. S. 4, 333. Add

efen-lang

(adj.)
Grammar
efen-lang, adj.
Entry preview:

Licgað wilde móras wið eástan emnlange þǽm býnum lande, Ors. 1, 1; S. 18, 28. as long (as broad). v. efen*-*brád

Linked entry: lang

here-lof

fametrophy

Entry preview:

Gl. 511, 25 ) famosae uirginitatis rumore (comperto), 4521. a sign of victory, trophy: Herelof tropeum, i. signum uiclorie, An. Ox. 1908. Siges herelof triumphi tropeum, 1761