beorht-líc
Bright ⬩ light ⬩ clear ⬩ lucid ⬩ splendid ⬩ lucidus ⬩ clarus ⬩ splendidus
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Thes. i. 135; Kmbl. 340, 19 : Ps. Th. 67, 3
fódrere
A fodderer ⬩ forager ⬩ pābŭlātor
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A fodderer, forager; pābŭlātor Þunor ofslóh xxiv heora fódrera thunder killed twenty-four of their foragers, Ors. 4, 1; Bos. 78, 1
folce-getrum
A host of people ⬩ exercĭtus
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A host of people; exercĭtus Mid heora folce-getrume with their band of people, Cd. 95; Th. 123, 18; Gen. 2046, note
be-swemman
To make to swim ⬩ natare facere
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To make to swim; natare facere Ðeáh hí beswemde weorþon though they be made to swim, Bt. 37, 4; Fox 192, 28
Linked entry: swemman
ge-fole
Having a foal ⬩ milch
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Having a foal, milch Ðrítig gefolra olfend-myrena mid heora coltum thirty milch camels [camelos fætas] with their colts, Gen. 32, 15
ge-réf-scipe
Office of a geréfa
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Office of a geréfa Ne heora nán geréfscipe ne drífe let none of them practise any reeveship, Homl. Th. ii. 94, 33
ge-men
Men
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Men Wǽron ðǽrin gemanna hand twelftig ðúsenda there were therein a hundred and twenty thousand men, Salm. and Sat. Kmbl. 186, 1
Linked entry: ge-manna
sealtærn-steall
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A place where there is a house for preparing salt Unam salis coquinariam, hoe est .i. sealternsteall, C. D. ii. 75, 22
ofer-getimbran
to raise a building
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to raise a building On ðæm stáne hí ciricean ofer-getimbredon they raised a church on that rock Blickl. Homl. 205, 5
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snǽd-mǽlum
By bits, a bit at a time
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By bits, a bit at a time Pusla snǽdmǽlum pick them out by a bit at a time Lchdm. ii. 356, 13
wana
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As appears especially in the first of the following passages, the word and the numerals which precede and follow it as much form a compound as do the words which give the number they express in modern English :-- Hé wæs áne-wana-xxx-wintre (xxix wintra
ǽrend-wreca
A messenger ⬩ ambassador ⬩ nuntius ⬩ legatus
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He sende ǽrendwrecan in Gallia ríce he sent ambassadors; into the kingdom of the Gauls, 2, 6; S. 508, 33
Linked entry: wreca
cyric-hálgung
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Ðys sceal to cyric-hálgungum this shall be for the consecration of a church, Rubc. Jn. Bos. 10, 22; Notes, p. 580. Æt ðære ealdan cyrchálgunge at the old church-hallowing, Homl. Th. ii. 582, 27
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norþ-here
An army belonging to the north
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An army belonging to the north Heó (the English force ) gehergade swíðe micel on ðæm norþhere, ǽgðer ge on mannum ge on gehwelces cynnes yrfe, and manega men ofslógon ðara Deniscena, Chr. 910; Erl. l00, 13
ge-dieglan
To hide ⬩ cover ⬩ velare
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To hide, cover; velare He wolde ðara scamfæstna giemelieste mid líðelícum wordum gedieglan he would cover [velare] the negligence of the modest with gentle words, Past. 31, 2; Swt. 207, 23; Hat. MS. 39 b, 23
tæbere
some implement used in weaving
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some implement used in weaving Tæbere claus (the word occurs in a list de arte textoria; but in an almost identical list, p. 282. the form is teltre. v. teld-treów), Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 27. (?)
slá
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Gyf þé slána lyste, þonne sete þú þínne winstran þúman on þínes litlan fingres lið and pýt mid þínum scytefingre in þíne wynstran hand on þornes getácnunge þe hí on weaxað, Tech. ii. 124, 24. Add
tweógung
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Ic wille ániman fram þám þe þás bóc rǽdað þone intingan ǽlcre tweónnge (tweónge, v.l.) æt ǽlcum þǽra spella þe ic wríte ut dubitationis occasionem legentibus subtraham per singula quae describo, Gr. D. 9, 6. Add
díglian
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Add In þissum þe hý dígledon in isio quem occultauerunt, Ps. Rdr. 9, 16. <b>I a.</b> to hide something from a person :-- Of þysum þe hý dýgledon mé, 30, 5
breóst-net
a net ⬩ A breast-net, covering for the breast, breast-plate; ⬩ pectorale reticulatum, thorax
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A breast-net, covering for the breast, breast-plate; pectorale reticulatum, thorax Him on eaxle læg breóstnetbroden on his shoulder lay the braided breastplate, Beo. Th. 3100; B. 1548: Cd. 154; Th. 192, 24; Exod. 236