hors
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In the Chronicle under the year 1055 (v. supra) a defeat of the English is attributed to their being on horses, a mode of fighting which according to Florence of Worcester was 'contra morem'; and Byrhtnoth, who bids his men drive away their horses (By
mór
a moor ⬩ waste and damp land ⬩ high waste ground ⬩ a mountain
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Sumra wyrta eard biþ on dúnum sumra on merscum sumra on mórum aliae herbae montibus oriuntur, alias ferunt paludes, 34, 10; Fox 148, 24. Ofer burna and ofer móras super rivos et paludes, Ex. 8, 5. Mistige móras, Beo.
heáh
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On þǽm heán cnolle sumes muntes, Bl. H. 197, 18. Of heán rodore, Dan. 236: Gen. 545. On þone heán heofon, 476. Ofer ðone heán hróf þæs heofones, Bt. 36, 2 ; F. 174, 5. Ofer ealle heá hwammas, Past. 245, 6. Þæt. hiéhste editissima (arx ), Wrt.
Linked entry: dynt
a-weorpan
To throw or cast from or down ⬩ to cast away or off ⬩ cast out ⬩ to degrade ⬩ reject ⬩ divorce ⬩ abjicere ⬩ dejicere ⬩ projicere ⬩ ejicere ⬩ propellere ⬩ repellere ⬩ reprobare ⬩ repudiare
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To throw or cast from or down, to cast away or off, cast out, to degrade, reject, divorce; abjicere, dejicere, projicere, ejicere, propellere, repellere, reprobare, repudiare Ðæt he ðec aweorpe of woruldríce that he shall cast thee from thy worldly kingdom
ge-nyhtsum
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Of genihtsumum edhwyrfte exuberante reditu, 8, 67. Of genihtsumere sumtuosa, copiosa (alimonia ), 1840. Genihtsume fertilem (praedam ), 110. Þá genihtsumestan uberrimam (facundiam ), 9, 12.
Finn
Fin
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Fin. the king of the North Frisians Finn [MS. Fin] Fresna cynne Fin of the race of the Frisians, Scóp. Th. 55; Wíd. 27. Be Finnes eaferum in Fres-wæle of Fin's offspring in Friesland, Beo. Th. 2140; B. 1068
Linked entry: Finns buruh
cynning-stán
A trying-stone ⬩ tessera
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to try, prove; stán a stone] A trying-stone;tessera Cynning-stán on tæfle a little wooden tower on the side of a gaming-board, hollow and having steps inside, through which the dice were thrown upon the board; pyrgus [ = πύργος], turricula,Ælfc.
Linked entry: cenning-stán
dype
Depth, the deep, sea ⬩ profundum, altĭtūdo, altum
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Ascúfaþ hine út on middan ðære dýpan thrust him out into the middle of the deep, Homl. Th. i. 564, 8. Teóh hit on dýpan duc in altum, Lk. Bos. 5, 4
bile-witness
Mildness, simplicity, innocence ⬩ simplicitas
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Hý on bilwitnesse hyra líf alyfdon they passed their lives in simplicity, Ors. 1, 2; Bos. 27, 5
Linked entries: bil-wetnes bil-witness
bismer-líce
irreverently ⬩ blasphemously
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Þá hǽðnan bysmerlíce and synlíce heora godas him laþodan on fultum, Bl. H. 201, 30
ge-erian
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On þæt gerád þe hé ǽlce geáre of þám lande geerige twégen æceras and þǽron his circsceat gesáwe, C. D. ii. 398, 20. .iii. æceras geerian on heora ágenre hwíle and mid heora ágenan sǽda gesáwan, iv. 306, 27. Add
þweor-lic
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Ox. 2751. add: — Hwirlicere prútunge proteruo fastu, An Ox. 1160. Þa gesceafta ðe sind þwyrlice gedúhte, hí sind tó wrace gesceapene yfeldǽdum the creatures that seem evil, they are created for the punishment of evil-doers, Hml. Th. i. 102, 3
á-stýfecigan
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Hwæðer þín ealde gýtsung eallunga of ðínum mode ástýfcod wére, Shrn. 184, 3. Add
ciric-gemána
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Church-communion, membership of a church Sume men sculan of cyricgemánan áscádene weorðan for synnan, eal swá Adam wearð of engla gemánan, Wlfst. 103, 23
ísen
Iron
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Hig hyne on ánum ýsenum scrýne gebrohton on ðære byrig Damascus they brought him in an iron chest to the city of Damascus, St. And. 38, 8. Drihten sett ísen geoc on eówerne swuran dominus ponet jugum ferreum super cervicem tuam, Deut. 28, 48.
morþ-dǽd
A deed which causes destruction ⬩ deadly sin ⬩ evil deed
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Swá férde se cniht on his fraceþum dǽdum and on morþdǽdum micclum gestrangod on orwénnysse his ágenre hǽle, Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 18-24. Wearþ ðes þeódscype swýðe forsyngod . . . þurh morþdǽda and þurh mándǽda, Wulfst. 163, 21.
weorold-wís
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worldly wise, having knowledge of the ways of the world On óðre wísan mon sceal manian ða woroldwísan (cf. ða ðe ðisse worulde lotwrenceas cunnon and ða lufigeaþ, 30 ; Swt. 203, 5), on óðre ða dysegan aliter hujus mundi sapientes admonendi sunt, aliter
Sætern-dæg
Saturday ⬩ dies Saturni
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On ðæm Sæteresdæge, Blickl. Homl. 71, 30. Saturnus heo (the forefathers of the English) ȝiven Sætterdæi (Sateresdai, 2nd MS. ), Laym. 13933
heofon-lic
chaste
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Add: Of, in, or belonging to heaven, as the abode of God. Similar entries v. heofon; V. Heofonlic hleóðor and se hálga song gehýred wæs, Gú. 1297.
hold
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E. 229, 21 : Chr. 1066; P. 200, 17. of inferior to superior God is mín gewita ic wæs ðínum fæder swá gehýrsum swá ic fyrmest mihte and fullíce hold on móde and on mægene and ðé ǽfre on fullum hyldum hold and on fulre lufe, ðæs mé is God gewita, C.