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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

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haca

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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.

sóna

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Add: within a short time, with reference to a definite past or future time Hǽlend him tó cwæþ, 'Lóca nú'. . . Hé þá sóna instæpes geseh, Bl. H. 15, 27. Þá cleopedon his ðegnas him tó . . .

á-cumba

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Ácumba putamina, An. Ox. 3293: s[t]uppea, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 9. Naptarum heordena ácumba, 59, 48. Ácumban putamine, An. Ox. 3728. Ácuman putamina, 2, 187. Ðá hét se undergeréfa ontendan hí mid ácuman, Hml. S. 4, 333. Add

here-lof

fametrophy

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Gl. 511, 25 ) famosae uirginitatis rumore (comperto), 4521. a sign of victory, trophy: Herelof tropeum, i. signum uiclorie, An. Ox. 1908. Siges herelof triumphi tropeum, 1761

sǽ-ríric

(n.)

a reed-bed in the sea (?), an ait

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a reed-bed in the sea (?), an ait; — Swylce wórie bí ófre sondbeorgum ymbseald sǽrýrica mǽst, swá ðæt wénaþ wǽglíþende ðæt hý on eálond sum eágum wlíten (the reference is to the whale, which mariners mistake for an island), Exon.

ge-endebyrdan

Grammar
ge-endebyrdan, ge-endebyrdian.
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Th. i. 344, 17. to ordain, with object a person, to appoint to a position, office Ic eam geendebyrd ordinata sum, Kent. Gl. 259. Drihten wæs ǽr eallum worldum geteód and geendebyrd, Bl. H. 31, 22.

CEORL

(n.)
Grammar
CEORL, es; m.

CHURL, countryman, husbandmanhomo liber, rusticus, colonus a man, husbandvir, maritusa free man

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wearþ to eorle, sangere to sacerde, and bócere to biscope we know that, by the grace of God, a slave has risen to a thane, and a ceorl [free man] has risen to an earl, a singer to a priest, and a scribe to be a bishop, L.

Linked entry: ciorl

fræt

(adj.)
Grammar
fræt, adj.

Obstinateproudperversussuperbus

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Frætre þeóde to the proud people, Andr. Kmbl. 1141; An. 571

æt-hwega

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Add: -hwigan Æthwega (-hwigan modice, R. Ben. I. 92, 16) beteran, R. Ben. 90, II : aliquatenus, R. Ben. l. 107, 8: 115, 15 : aliquantulum, 95, 8 : An. Ox. 638 : paulatim, Angl. xiii. 365, 9. Æthwege paulisper, An. Ox. 5390.

ge-myndelíce

(adv.)
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Sý gecweden án rǽding gemyndelíce bútan béc, 36, 20

heolstrig

(adj.)
Grammar
heolstrig, adj.

darksecret

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Voc. ii. 28, 38. used substantively, a secret place: Of dígelnessum, heolstrigum (of dígelnessum, of heolstrigum, Hpt Gl. 475, 53) de recessibus, An. Ox. 2952

cwealm-bǽre

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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, &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) . . .

deáþ

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Add: gen. es and (?) a, as being an old u-stem noun. v. deáða gedál (cf. deáþgedál, 936) dreógan, Gú. 206. death, of an individual Þa langan tíd þæs dimman deáðes mortis inamabile tempus, Dóm. L. 14. Hé bið mid wítum þreád æfter his deáþe, Bl.