offrian
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Add: absolute, to make a sacrifice, sacrifice Ne tweónige hé ná ꝥ hé ne offrað deófle, Hml. A. 146, 49. Ofrude litarat, An. Ox. 370. Offriað gé mid rihtwísnesse, and bringað þá Gode tó lácum, Ps. Th. 4, 6.
fyrst
first, foremost in position ⬩ foremost in virtue or worth, best, of great excellence
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Exod. 399' substitute: first, foremost in position Hé wæs mid þǽm fyrstum mannum on þǽm lande he was among the first men in the country, Ors. 1, 1; S. 18, 13. foremost in virtue or worth, best, of great excellence Hú se láreów sceal beón on his weorcum
slaga
A slayer ⬩ homicide ⬩ interfector ⬩ percussor ⬩ lanio
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Hú ne biþ hé swelce hé sié his slaga (mortis auctor), ðonne hé hine mæg gehǽtan and nyle ? Past. 38, 4; Swt. 275, 9. Gif man þeóf geméte, and hé hús brece, and hine man gewundie, se slaga biþ unscildig, Ex. 22, 2.
bǽtan
to bait ⬩ worry with dogs, ⬩ to beat ⬩ make way against the wind or current
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beat, he guards himself against the storm, Bt. 41, 3; S. 144, 28-32
ealla
Gall, bile ⬩ fel
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H.] togotennysse for effusion of the bile, Herb. 146, 2; Lchdm. i. 270, 4: 141, 2; Lchdm. i. 262, 12
ge-grápian
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Add: to lay hold of with the hand; to reach Seó clǽne beó oft wíde and síde blósman gegrét . . . and hig grimme windas gemétað, and þá wreccan geswencað, ꝥ heó earfoðlíce cýððe gegrápað ( that hardly can she reach home ), Angl. viii. 324, 15.
ge-sweðerian
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Take here ge-swiðrian in Dict., and add ꝥ fullfremede mód geswyðrode (-swiðrade, v. l. ) ymbe hine fram þǽre heánnesse þára oferhygda erga ilium ilia mens effera ab elationis fastu detumuit, Gr. D. 188, 3.
handlian
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Add: to touch with the hands Sé ðe handlað wífhádes mannes líc, Hex. 50, 11. Handla contrecla, i. palpa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 35. Handlian contrectare (mea membra ), An.
hornnaap
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Could naap (= náp) be p. t. of nípan, used here figuratively of mental gloom? Further could horn = orn (ran) ? ; and could two quite different glosses have been suggested for the same Latin word, because the glosser was uncertain whether to connectt]
wyrms
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Heó ne mihte bedýglian ꝥ weaxende wyrms (wyrmsi, v.l.) and wídl (increscentem saniem), Gr. D. 157, 10.
toweht
a basket for putting wool in(?)
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Calatum is explained in Du Cange by lignum piscatorum seu piscama e lignis con-fecta, a meaning which seems not to belong to the word here). Wrt. Voc. i. 282, 17: ii. 16, 35
late
Slowly ⬩ late ⬩ at length ⬩ at last
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Gif heó gǽþ late .. gif heó hraþe gǽþ, Lchdm. iii. 144, 7: Exon. 49 b; Th. 172, 2; Gú. 1137. Ic ðæt gecneów tó late too late I perceived it, 72 a; Th. 269, 2; Jul. 444: Elen. Kmbl. 1412; El. 708.
líc-hama
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Þý lǽs heó þone hálan líchoman fornime, Lch. i. 100, 6. Hié heora líchoman leáfum beþeahton, Gen. 845. dead His líchama (corpus) ne mihte on þám ylcan dæge beón bebyrged, for þám þe hé wæs feorr tó berenne, Gr. D. 83, 31.
ofer-gán
to overspread ⬩ to overrun (a country, as a victorious army does), to conquer ⬩ to pass a point or limit ⬩ to pass a moral limit, to transgress ⬩ to pass across, traverse, cross ⬩ to pass, pass off or away, be over, come to an end ⬩ To be over ⬩ to come upon, attack
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Rush. 15, 2. to pass across, traverse, cross Hé ofereode steáp stánhliþo, Beo. Th. 2820; B. 1408. Hí ða Reádan Sǽ ofereodon, Homl. Th. ii. 200, 27: Beo.
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be-gyrdan
to BEGIRD ⬩ surround ⬩ cingere ⬩ præcingere ⬩ accingere ⬩ to clothe ⬩ amicire
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He ðæt eálond begyrde and gefæstnade mid díce he begirt and secured the island with a dike Bd. 1, 5; S. 476, 10. God se begyrde me of mihte Deus qui præcinxit me virtute Ps. Spl. 17, 34 : Ps. Th. 17, 37.
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FALS
FALSEhood, fraud, counterfeit ⬩ falsum
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Se ðe ofer ðis fals wyrce, þolige ðæra handa ðe he ðæt fals mid worhte he who after this shall make a counterfeit [coin], let him forfeit the hands with which he made the counterfeit, L. C. S. 8; Th. i. 380, 16, 17, 20, 22.
meornan
To care ⬩ feel anxiety ⬩ trouble one's self about anything ⬩ reck
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Nó mearn fore fyrene he cared not for the crime he committed, 273; B. 136. Lyt ǽnig mearn ðæt hié út geferedon dýre máðmas little anxiety did any feel about bringing out the precious treasures, 6250; B. 3129.
óþ-lǽdan
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Ic þence ðis feóh tó lufianne, næs tó óþlǽdanne . . . hé nǽfre nabbe landes ðæt hé hit óþlǽde. Lchdm. i. 384, 4-9. Ic com óþlǽded gódum excussus sum. Ps. Th. 108, 23.
stefnan
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to regulate, direct, fix, institute Hé stefnde Godes cyrican and Godes gesomnunga on ðære byrig eahta and twentig geára he had the direction of God's church and God's congregations in that town eight-and-twenty years, Shrn. 108, 6.
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sticel
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That with which a prick may be given, (stickle in stickle-back; cf. stickly prickly, Halliwell's Dict.) a sting, goad Óðerne hé dráf mid sticele, óðrum hé wiðteáh mid brídle illum stimulo impellere nititur, hunc freno moderatur, Past. 40, 3; Swt. 293
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