adreminte
The herb feverfew ⬩ parthenium ⬩ παρθένιον
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The herb feverfew: parthenium = παρθένιον, Prior 78
æl-walda
the all-powerful
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the all-powerful. Cd. Jun. 6, 10
æt-hýde
Put out of the hide ⬩ skinned ⬩ excoriatus
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Put out of the hide, skinned; excoriatus
cipresse
The cypress-tree ⬩ cupressus
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The cypress-tree; cupressus, Som. Ben. Lye
eásten-wind
The east wind ⬩ subsōlānus
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The east wind; subsōlānus. v. eástan; adj
ebur-þring
The celestial sign Orion
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The celestial sign Orion, Som. Ben. Lye
Linked entry: eofor-þring
hrepsung
The evening
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The evening Ǽfen oððe hrepsung vesper, Som
Linked entry: ǽfen-hrepsung
yfel-wyrde
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In the bracket for -oðr l. -orðr
blód-setenn
The stoppage of blood ⬩ sanguinis profluentis restrictio
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The stoppage of blood; sanguinis profluentis restrictio
ge-brogne
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The gender is uncertain. v. brogna(brogne ?)
sibban
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Dele, gifeþ, not sifeþ, is the reading. (?)
stoc-wíc
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Add: The Latin is: In Cassinum castrum
up-weard
turned upwards ⬩ moving upwards.
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Hé ásette his sweord upweard and ðá hyne sylfne ofstang he placed his sword with the point up, and then stabbed himself, Shrn. 132, 10. Nioþan upweardne on nearo fégde, Exon. Th. 479, 11; Rä. 62, 6.
tæfl
Properly a board for the playing of a game. But the word seems also used of a game played on such a board: cf. the use of the word tables at a later time ⬩ The word seems to denote also a die used in playing a game. What was the precise nature of the games, to which this word and related forms are applied, does not appear; some of the references below would imply that games of chance are meant, and this would be in keeping with the love of gaming which Tacitus, Germ. c. 24, noticed among the Germans. But games of skill like chess may sometimes be meant. In Icelandic tafl is used of chess or draughts, as well as of dicing, and the Danes in England seem to have played chess ⬩ Among the Welsh, too, was a game something like draughts, called tawlbwrdd
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Properly a board for the playing of a game. But the word seems also used of a game played on such a board: cf. the use of the word tables at a later time Wyþ pleyynge at tables oþer atte chekere, R. Glouc. 192, 3.
Linked entry: tebl
gram
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Driliten wæs ðam folce gram the Lord was angry with the people, Deut. 1, 37: Cd. 16; Th. 20, 2; Gen. 302. Wearþ se cyng swíðe gram wið ða burhware the king was very angry with the citizens, Chr. 1048; Erl. 178, 6.
Linked entry: grom
a-drífan
To drive ⬩ stake ⬩ expel ⬩ pursue ⬩ follow up ⬩ agere ⬩ pellere ⬩ expellere ⬩ repellere ⬩ sequi ⬩ prosequi
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within the water, Chr.
Linked entries: æ-drífan aweg-adrífan
FEARN
FERN ⬩ fĭlix
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Atió ǽrest of ða þornas, and ða fyrsas, and ðæt fearn draw out first the thorns, and the furze, and the fern, Bt. 23; Fox 78, 22: Bt. Met. Fox 12, 5; Met. 12, 3. Ðæt micle fearn the large fern; aspĭdium fĭlix, L.
weorc-dæg
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Hú dægrédsangas on weorcdagum (privatis diebus) tó healdenne sýn (v. the whole chapter, and cf. the title of the previous one: Hú dægréd*-*sangas on freólstídum tó healdenne sýn), R. Ben. 37, 4, 5