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brǽþ

odour ⬩ exhalation

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Add: odour: — Brǽþ odor, Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 26. Mǽre brǽð þǽr stanc, swá ꝥ ꝥ wíf wundrode þæs wynsuman brǽþes, and cwæð ꝥ heó nǽfre ǽr náht swilces ne gestunce. Hml. S. 4, 347. Se brǽð on heora nosðyrlum ne áteorode, Hml. Th. ii. 98, 9.

hwílwend-lic

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<b>II a.

land-ceáp

Grammar
land-ceáp, land-cóp, es; m.
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, and nine hundred shillings for the land, Cod.

réceleást

(n.)
Grammar
réceleást, e; f.
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Hí for heora slǽwþe and for gímeléste and for récceléste forléton unwriten ðara monna þeáwas ðe on heora dagum foremǽroste wǽron, Bt. 18, 3; Fox 64, 34.

feorran-cumen

(adj.)
Grammar
feorran-cumen, adj.

stranger

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Hié fira flǽschoman feorrancumenra þégon, An. 24. Hwæt sié freóndlufu ellþeódigra uncer twéga feorrencumenra, Gen. 1836. Ꝥ hí ælþeódige men and feorrancumene ne tyrian, Ll. Th. i. 326, 27

Linked entry: feorren

haca

Grammar
haca, 'For Gl. Mett. 658
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substitute Haca (haᵤca, 87, 1559) pessul, Txts. 88, 803, and add: Perhaps the word occurs in the following :-- On hacapenn foreweard . . . on hacapenn foreweardne, C. D. iii. 412, 2, 14, An hacan penne, v. 238, 30.

BÝRGAN

(v.)
Grammar
BÝRGAN, býrian, býrigan, býrgean, býrigean, beorgan; p. de; pp. ed

To taste, eat ⬩ gustare, manducare

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Nim ðé ðis ofæt on hand, bít hit and býrge take to thee this fruit in hand, bite it and taste, Cd. 25; Th. 33, 12; Gen. 519

fore

(prep.; adv.)
Grammar
fore, adv.

in front ⬩ at the head ⬩ before

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.), in front, at the head, as chief Fore tó yrnenne prodeundi, Scint. 224, 7. Eorðcyningas þe folcum hér fore wísien kings that, placed at their head, direct the peoples, Ps. Th. 148, 11. temporal, before Fore ic cueð ł ǽr ic sægde praedixi, Mt.

ge-lecgan

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D. iv. 202, 13. with a non-material object, to lay a command, task, &amp;amp;c., upon a person 'Ábeódað míne ǽrende tó ðám gemóte . . . and cýðað hwǽm ic mínes landes geunnen hæbbe' . . .

cwealm-bǽre

Grammar
cwealm-bǽre, (cwelm-).
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Judas cóm mid þám cwealmbǽrum . . . and belǽwde þone Hǽlend þám árleásum cwellerum, Hml. A. 74, 43. of things Seó cwealmbǽre éhtnyss, Hml. S. 19, 16. Ácwellan mid cwealmbǽrum swurde, 7, 244. Mid cwealmbérum (-bǽrum) drence, 14, 73.

ge-háwian

(v.)
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, action, &amp;amp;c.

grǽg

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S. 7, 135. v. æsc-grǽg, deorce-grǽg ( perhaps deorce should be taken as an independent adverb), dun-grǽg, flint-grǽg, fold-grǽg, ísen-grǽg, ísern-grǽg. Add

ild

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Add: Seó mearewæste cildes yld tenerrima infantis etatula, An. Ox. 2867. Hé his ealdan ylde ofergetiligende . . . arn, Hml. S. 23 b, 185.

mearu

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D. 119, 17. (1 a) of age, tender age or years :-- Seó mearewæste cildes yld tenerrima infantis etatula, An. Ox. 2865. On mearuwes[tan] in tenerrima (pubertate), 1633.

mynegian

(v.)
Grammar
mynegian, <b>. I.</b>
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. ¶ to urge an animal :-- Nimað þás swipan þæt gé magan þis hors mid mynegian and drífan (minare ), Gr. D. 14, 21

staþol

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<b>III a.</b> an estate, a farm :-- Se fæder náht elles hire ne sealde búton .vi. ynstan ánre ǽhte (cf. staþol-ǽht) (unius possessiunculae) . . .

Hæestingas

(n.)
Grammar
Hæestingas, Hestingas, Hæstinga ceaster

Hastings

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Hí heafdon ofergán Súþseaxe and Hæstingas [Hæsting, l. 36] they had overrun Sussex and Hastings, 1011; Erl. 144, 27. Tó Hæstinga ceastre at Hastings, L. Ath. 1, 14; Th. i. 208, 2

Frysisc

(adj.)
Grammar
Frysisc, Fresisc; adj.

Of or belonging to Friesland ⬩ Frisian ⬩ Frīsĭcus

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Ðǽr wearþ ofslegen Lucuman, and ealra manna, Frysiscra and Engliscra, lxii there was slain Lucuman, and of all the men, Frisian and English, sixty-two, 897; Th. 176, 34, col. 2; 177. 34

Linked entry: Fresisc

gomen-wudu

(n.)
Grammar
gomen-wudu, gen. -wuda; m.
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Pleasure-wood, glee-wood, a musical instrument, harp; lætĭtiæ lignum, harpa = άρπη Ðǽr wæs sang and swég samod ætgædere, gomenwudu gréted there were song and sound at once together, the glee-wood [was] touched, Beo. Th. 2134; B. 1065.

Linked entry: gamen-wudu

geond

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Add: <b>gend</b> (v. geond-geótan), <b>gind, giend, gynd. A.