meolc
Milk
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Abraham nam meoloc, Gen. 18, 8. Meoluc, Deut. 32, 14. Dó on þeorfe meoluc put into skim milk, L. M. 2, 52; Lchdm. ii. 272, 1. Ða rícostan men drincaþ myran meolc, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 20, 17.
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grǽdig
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Ðá getímode swá dé þ ðam grǽdigan fisce ðe gesihþ ðæt ǽs and ne gesihþ ðone angel ðe on ðam ǽse sticaþ then it befel as it does to the greedy fish that sees the bait but sees not the hook which sticks in the bait, Homl. Th. i. 216, 10.
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blinnan
To cease, rest, leave off ⬩ cessare, desinere
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We Dryhten bletsigaþ, ne ðæs blinnaþ áwa to worulde we bless the Lord, nor cease from this for ever, Ps. Th. 113, 25. Seó éhtnes [MS. ehtnysse] blan the persecution ceased, Bd. 1, 8; S. 479, 17. Blann [blonn MS.
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ge-gerwan
To prepare ⬩ make ready ⬩ clothe ⬩ array ⬩ adorn ⬩ furnish
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Heardum tóþum and miclum hit wæs gegyred duris munitum dentibus, Nar. 21, 1
ge-mána
Companionship, society, fellowship, familiarity, marriage, intercourse, commerce, conjunction ⬩ communio, societas, consortium, contubernium, commercium, concubitus
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Hréman ne þorfte mǽcan gemánan he needed not to exult in the falchion's intercourse, Chr. 937; Th. 204, 24; Ædelst. 40. Wið ðam ðe ðú mínes gemánan brúce ut fruaris concubitu meo, Gen. 38, 16 : Med. ex Quadr. 5, 11; Lchdm. i. 350, 10
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þanc-weorþ
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Ic eów secgan mæg þoncwyrþe þing, ðæt gé ne ðyrfen leng murnan on móde, Judth. Thw. 23, 33; Jud. 153. Þancwurðe gifa grata (accepta) libamina, Hpt. Gl. 415, 7. Gecwéme (ł) þancwurde gife grata munuscula, 510, 71.
þegnung-mann
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Árás Malchus heora þeningmann, and dyde eall swá his gewuna wæs, nam mid him sumne dǽl feós ... ðæt feoh bær tó porte, 472-486: 447. Se Hǽlend hét ða ðénigmen áfyllan six stǽnene fatu, Homl.
un-besacen
unmolested by litigation ⬩ not made the subject of litigation ⬩ uncontested
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Ðá sealde hé Æþelrige unbesacen land on hand, ðæt hé þanonforð syþþan ðǽron ne sprǽce he gave the land up to Æþelrige uncontested, so that thenceforth he would not lay claim to it, 289, 31.
yfelness
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Yfelnysse ( malitiam ) ná hé hatude, Ps. Spl. 35, 4: 51, 3. Ðurh yfelnysse ( nequitiam ) unrihtes willan, Bd. 1. 27; S. 495, 13. Hé áwearp yfelnysse and ða unrihtan biggengas ðæra leásra goda, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 461: Chr. 1086; Erl. 223, 2.
and-git
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Se geleáfa ne bið on geárum, ac bið on glǽwum andgitum, Hml. S. 7, 112. sense, faculty of perception Hé læg cwydeleás búton andgite, Hml. Th. i. 86, 26. Heora módes andgytu hí fordytton, Hml.
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á-sceacan
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Hé wæs hyne ásceacende eal swá earn þonne hé myd hrædum flyhte wyle forð áfleón, Nic. 14, 35
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á-geótan
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Th. ii. 128, 20. ꝥ wæter ic niðer ágeát (effudi ), Nar. 8, 10. Þá fatu þe hé ǽr on ágeát litelne dǽl þæs wǽtan, Gr. D. 59, 13. Ág(e)át exsicat , Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 23. Ágaett effudit . Mk.
be-tweohs
between ⬩ among ⬩ between ⬩ among
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Betwyx óðrum þingum nis ná tó forgytane ꝥ góde frið, Chr. 1086 ; P. 220, 12. Hé arn betwux þám eórode middan, Hml. S. 25, 583. temporal, in the course of a period, during events Betwux hancréde, Hml. Th. ii. 344, 30.
bufan
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S. 18, 24. upon Byrgenne, swelce hiera þeáw wæs þæt mon rícum monnum bufan eorðan worhte, Ors. 4, 10; S. 202, 5: 2, 4; S. 74, 19. of time, above, more than Fram ánum mónðe and bufan þám, Num. 3, 15. with acc. above, to a point higher than Hé up
dígolnes
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Wé habbað ðás race ánfealdlíce gereht; wé willað eác þæt andgit eów geopenian, and ðá dýgelnysse eów ne bedyrnan, Hml. Th. ii. 214, 18. a secret place On dígelnesse latibulo, i. secretorio, An. Ox. 392.
fǽr-lic
sudden ⬩ sudden ⬩ fortuitous
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Mín Drihten, ne lǽt mé nǽfre fǽrlicum deáðe of þissum lífe gewítan, Angl. xii. 499, 5. For his fǽrlican áweggewitennysse, Hml. S. 30, 225. Férlican ógan repentino terrore, Kent.
fóre-stihtod
predestine
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Hé ne forestihte nǽnne tó yfelnysse . . . Hé forestihte ðá gecorenan tó dám écan lífe . . . Hé nolde forestihtan þá árleásan tó his ríce, i. 112, 28-33. Þá þe God forestihte on frymðe þyssere worulde, Hml. A. 45, 514.
for-gifnes
release ⬩ mildness ⬩ lenity ⬩ indulgence ⬩ laxity
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Hié nǽfre forgifenesse æt Gode ne biddaþ, Bl. H. 65, 13.
frécennes
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Þá þe ne mihton ádreógar þæs hungres frǽcnesse (frécen-, v.l.) qui famis periculum ferre non poterant, Gr. D. 197, 25. Frécnysse discrimen, Hpt. Gl. 443, 71
ge-mǽnelic
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Ne mæg nán man ætberstan þám gemǽnelican deáðe, ðe eallum mannum becymð, Hml. A. 54, 97-106. Gemǽnelicum gafele generali (mortis) debito, An. Ox. 1447. denoting co-operation, association (Ge)mǽnlicere (ge)férrǽdene contuberniali sodalitate, An.
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