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lof-georn

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Add: in a good sense, eager to deserve praise, B. 3183 (in Dict. ). in a bad sense, ostentatious, boastful Se seofoða leahter is iactantia gecweden, ꝥ pound; is ýdel gylp; ꝥ is ðonne se man bið lof-georn and mid lícetunge færð, and déð for gylpe gif

ofer-drincan

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Ðæt mód wilnað ðæt hit tó ðon onwæcne ðæt hit mæge eft weorðan oferdruncen; for ðǽm . . . hit wacað on ðǽm ymbhogum ðisse worlde, and wilnað ðæt hit sié oferdruncen his ágnes willan mens evigilare optat, ut rursum vina reperiat; quia . . . vigilare ad

rǽding

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Cf. rǽdan; <b>II a</b> Se cyning árás and eóde him út swilce for rǽdinge, Hml. A. 100, 270

rícsian

(v.)
Grammar
rícsian, <b>II a.</b>
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Hér ásette se apostol niht for þǽre ealdan nytennysse ðe ríxode ær Crístes tócyme, Hml. Th. i. 602, 34. Ðá hwíle ðe him ǽnig unðeáw on rícsige, Past. 63, 19. Add

stunt

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Feól se wáh uppan þæs stuntan ( the foolish man 's) rǽdboran . . . swýðe rihtlíce . . . for ðan þe hí rǽdboran wǽran þæs árleásan déman, Hml. S. 8, 172. Þǽra mǽdena wǽron fíf stunte and fíf snotore, Hml.

DYRNE

(adj.)
Grammar
DYRNE, dierne; def. se dyrna, seó, ðæt dyrne; adj.

close, hidden, secret, obscure occultus, secrētus, latens, obscūrusdark, deceitful, eviltenebrīcōsus, subdŏlus

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Sceal mǽg nealles inwit-net óðrum bregdan dyrnum cræfte a kinsman should not braid a net of treachery for another with deceitful craft, Beo. Th. 4342; B. 2168. He to forþ gestóp dyrnan cræfte he had stept forth with evil craft, 4569 ; B. 2290 .

Linked entries: derne dierne

treów

(n.)
Grammar
treów, trýw, e; f.
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Cf. hold Ðæs getreówan freóndes, ðone mon lufaþ for treówum, Bt. 24, 3; Fox 82, 35. Dauid forbær ðæt hé Saul ne dorste ofsleán for ðǽm ealdum treówum. Past. 28; Swt. 199, 3:3; Swt. 37, 7. Cham ne wolde cýðan hyldo and treówa, Cd.

ge-staþelian

(v.)
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Heó gestaðelode ðæt fǽmna mynster ꝥ is nemned on Bercingum, Shrn. 138, Ðis is seó freólsbóc tó ðan mynstre . . . swá swá hit Wulfríc gestaðelode for hine and for his yldrena sáwle, C. D. vi. 149, 37.

Linked entry: ge-staþeled

féða

(n.)
Grammar
féða, an; m.

a band on footinfantrya hosttrooptribecompanyphălanx pĕdestrispĕditeslĕgioăciestrĭbuscătervaa battlepugna

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Hí bǽdon ðæt hí móston ofer ðone ford faran, féðan lǽdan they gave orders to go over the ford, to lead the troops onward, Byrht. Th. 134, 23; By. 88.

Linked entry: féðu

geóguþ

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geóguþ, l. geoguþ,
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</b> youth as a period of immaturity :-- Ðá ðe unmedome bióð tó ðǽre láre oððe for gioguðe oððe for unwísdóme, Past. 375, 19. Þá þe for geoguðe gyt ne mihton breóstnet werian, Exod. 235.

Linked entry: giógoð

bealcettan

(v.)
Grammar
bealcettan, belcettan, bealcan ; p. te ; pp. ted

To belchuttersend forthemiteructaredicereemittere

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To belch, utter, send forth, emit; eructare, dicere, emittere Swéte to bealcetenne pleasant to belch, Bt. 22, 1; Fox 76, 32. Bealcetteþ heorte mín word gód eructat cor meum verbum bonum, Ps. Spl. 44, 1.

setlan

(v.)
Grammar
setlan, p. [e]de.
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E. forms

Linked entry: setlung

scilian

(v.)
Grammar
scilian, p. ode
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Eádwerd cing scylode ix scypa of mále and hí fóron mid scypon mid eallon anweg King Edward put nine ships out of commission, and they went away ships and all, (?) áscelede (-scerede?) dividuntur, Hpt. Gl. 438, 50

þrítan

(v.)
Grammar
þrítan, p. te.

to wearyto urgepressforce

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to weary Ðæt folc wearð þrít and þearle geswenct mid ðam síðfæte taedere coepit populum itineris ac laboris, Num. 21, 4. to urge, press, force Seó wyrd ðe þriétaþ (-eþ?)

Linked entries: þreátian þriétan

ge-delf

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Æt ðam forman gedelfe swégde út ormǽte wyllspring, Hml. Th. i. 562, 14, v. marmstán-, ymb-gedelf. an excavation, a ditch, quarry, hole

smǽte-gylden

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Först. 114, 1. Ðeáh ðe sié sum smétegelden dún eall mid gimmum ásett æt sunnan úpgange . . . and ðǽr sitte sum cynebearn anufan ðǽre gyldenan dúne, Sal. K. 85, 36. Add

stihtian

(v.)
Grammar
stihtian, p. ode
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Ðý upplícan dóme stihtigende superno dispensante judicio, Bd. 4, 3 ; S. 567, 7. v. fore-, ge-stihtian ; stihtan

Linked entry: in-stihtian

ge-neah

(v.)
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Substitute: ge-neah, pl. ge-nugon; p. ge-nohte. impersonal it suffices a person, a person has enough, abounds in Wé eáðe magon úpcund ríce forð gestígan, gif ús on ferðe geneah, and wé willað healdan heofoncyninges bibod, Sch. 35. [Cf. O. H.

beó-breád

(n.)
Grammar
beó-breád, bió-breád, bí-breád, es; n.

BEE-BREADapum panishoney-combfavus

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Th. 118, 103. honey-comb; favus, sometimes, from a deficient knowledge of natural history, beó-breád is used for hunig-camb Swétran [MS. swetra] ofer hunig and beóbreáde dulciora super mel et favum Ps. Lamb. 18, 11.

hǽman

(v.)
Grammar
hǽman, p. de; pp. ed
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Ðám mannum ðe deófol mid hǽmþ for those women with whom the devil hath carnal commerce, L. M. 3, 61; Lchdm. ii. 344, 8. Ne hǽmeþ ne hǽmde bióþ neque nubent neque nubentur, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 22, 30 : 19, 10.