tíg
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A. 748, cites tie a meeting-place, as a term of lower Saxony
Linked entry: fore-tíge
þrece
Force ⬩ oppression ⬩ the result of oppression ⬩ weariness ⬩ exhaustion
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Force, oppression; the result of oppression, weariness, exhaustion Ðǽr synt tó sorge ætsomne gemenged se þrosma (þrosmiga.
un-fáh
Not regarded as a foe
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Not regarded as a foe, used of the kinsmen of a criminal when not involved in the feud which their kinsman's guilt occasioned Gif hwá heonanforð ǽnigne man ofsleá, ðæt hé wege sylf ða fǽhðe ...
bord-rima
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D. 248, 27 ; so that bordremum refers to the edges of the ship's planks which parted from one another, thus making a gap through which the sea entered), Txts. 114, 112
Linked entry: rima
clipian
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Hí for ege ne durron clypion (cleopian, v. l. ), Past. 88, 11. of animals Assan clipiende, Lch. iii. 198, 12
dundre
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A participial form of one of the verbs dynian, þunian (q.v.), þeótan seems to have been corrupted into these two forms
Linked entry: duntre
efes
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Út of ðám wudu; of ðæs wudes efese, 390, 2. Be ðǽre æfesce . . . be efæsce, 460, 15, 18. Innan hangran; swá forð be æfise . . . be efise (æfisc, efisc, C. D. B. ii. 304), v. 184, 11, 13. Add
ge-þegnsum
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S. 23, 4. of things Géþénsume scúras coloni nimbi, i. manna pluviae famulantes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 28
Linked entry: ge-þénsum
híred-lic
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Substitute: of a family, Similar entries v. híred; III. Híredlicere þénrǽdene híwcúþ carfulnys familiaris clientele domestica sollicitudo, An. Ox. 4181. of a court, Similar entries v. híred; IV.
Linked entry: hýrd-lic
hopp-scýte
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Ox. 7, 365 where conopeum, occurring in the story of Judith, is glossed by wáhreft. In the poem of Judith the word is rendered byfleóhnett Jud. 47), Hml. As. III, 307
lytling
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L. 1369. a person of little account, of inferior position. Cf. lytel; <b>A. I.
mánlíce
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Wickedly, (of swearing) falsely, criminally Sé ðe fæder oððe módor mánlíce wyrigð, hé sceal deáðe sweltan, Hml. Th. ii. 324, 29.
orne
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Not mean, excessive. of amount Wið ornum útgange, and wið þon þe mon gemígan ne mæge, Lch. iii. 70, 25. of quality or character, not in due measure, harmful (?)
rómig
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116, 48; popæg, 117, 66.Ald. 66, 22.Ox. 4678.That rómei = hrúmig seems certain from a comparison of Wrt.
sáwlung
expiring
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wert thou, for ever hadst thou this hour (the hour of death) before thine eyes.'
Linked entry: sáwlian
æscen
A (wooden) vessel, pail, bottle
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Of ðám æscene ðe is óðre namon hrygilebúc gecleopad . . . and of ðám óðran æscene, Cht. Th. 439, 25, 29. Man sceal habban trogas, æscena, Angl. ix. 264, 15. Substitute:
ham-scyld
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Leo in his work on Anglo-Saxon Names quotes a passage from Richthofen in which skeld occurs in the sense of fence; so that the crime referred to in the passage would be the breaking through the fence which surrounded the ham. v. the translation of Leo
bræsen
BRAZEN, ⬩ æreus, æneus ⬩ made of brass ⬩ strong, powerful, bold, daring; ⬩ validus, fortis, potens, procax
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BRAZEN,; æreus, æneus made of brass Bræsen oððe ǽren æneus, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 59. Ðú gesettest swá swá bogan bræsenne earmas míne posuisti ut arcum æreum brachia mea, Ps.
brýd-lác
A marriage gift or feast, the celebration of a marriage ⬩ nuptiale offertorium, nuptiarum celebritates
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A marriage gift or feast, the celebration of a marriage; nuptiale offertorium, nuptiarum celebritates Ne nán preóst mót beón æt ðam brýdlácum áhwǽr ðǽr man eft wífaþ, oððe wíf eft ceorlaþ nor may any priest be at the celebration of a marriage anywhere
coorta
A band of soldiers ⬩ cohort ⬩ cohors
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A band of soldiers, cohort; cohors He hæfde eahta ond hund-eahtatig coortena [MS. coortana], ðæt we nú truman hátaþ, ðæt wæs, on ðám dagum, fíf hund manna, and án þúsend he had eighty-eight cohorts, which we now call bands, each of which was, in those