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hunt

(n.)
Grammar
hunt, e;

Hunting

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Hunting [Or is hunte for huntunge?]. Of hunte du venatione, Rtl. 117, 4

hwí

(con.; pronoun.)

Similar entry: HWÝ

HWÝ

(con.; pronoun.)
Grammar
HWÝ, hwí; inst.of hwæt.

WHY.

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WHY. in direct questions ― Interrogativa synd áxigendlíce cur hwí, Ælfc. Gr. 38; Som. 40, 58. Hwí didest ðú ðæt quare hoc fecisti? Gen. 3, 13: Mt. Kmbl. 9, 11. Hwý sceal ic æfter his hyldo þeówian? Cd. 15; Th. 18, 33; Gen. 282. in dependent clauses

Linked entries: hwí hwig

HÝD

(n.)
Grammar
HÝD, e; f.

HIDEskin

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HIDE, skin: Hýd cutis vel pellis; corium vel tergus, Ælfc. Gl. 73; Som. 71, 31, 32; Wrt. Voc. 44, 17, 18. Getannede hýd subacta coria vel medicata vel confecta, 17; Som. 58, 103; Wrt. Voc. 22, 19. Hiora hýd biþ swíde gód tó sciprǽpum their [walruses'

Linked entry: hýd-gild

húlas

Similar entry: sceald-húlas

huma

Similar entry: uma

hrúm

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Hrúm cacobatus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 17, 37. Hrúme fuligine, 34, 42. Nim ceteles hrúm, Lch. ii. 148, 10. Add

hrum

Grammar
hrum, = hórum, Lch. ii. 2, 3.

Similar entry: horh

hruse

Grammar
hruse, l. hrúse,
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and add: the ground. as a surface Crungon hergas tó hrúsan, Ruin. 30. Ðonne se forst tó hrúsan cymeð, Rä. 41, 55. Hwǽr seó ród wunige under hrúsan, El. 625. Se wínsele on hrúsan ne feól, B. 772. Þonne ic hrúsan trede, Rä. 8, 1. Hé hrycge sceal hrúsan

hwón

(adj.)
Grammar
hwón, adj.

Littlefew

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Huón aron ða ðe onfindes ða ilco pauci sunt qui inveniunt eam, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 7, 14. Ofer lytla ł huón super pauca, 25, 21. Huoó ł unmonige paucos, p. 15, 7. Búta hwón untrymigo gehǽlde nisi paucos infirmos curavit, Mk. Skt. Lind. 6, 5.

wíd-farende

(adj.)
Grammar
wíd-farende, adj. (ptcpl.) Wide-faring, wandering: — Ðone wíd-farendan lǽd on ðín hús
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vagos induc in domum tuam, Past. 43; Swt. 315, 14

Linked entry: wíd-férende

hype-seax

Grammar
hype-seax, hup-seax, es; n.

a dagger

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A knife hanging at the hip, a dagger, short sword Lytel sweord vel hypesex pugio vel clunabulum, Ælfc. Gl. 52; Som. 65, 50; Wrt. Voc. 35, 37. Helm oððe hupseax, Exon. 79 a; Th. 297, 6; Crä. 64. Helmas and hupseax, Judth. 12; Th. 26, 15; Jud. 328

Linked entry: hup-seax

ǽlc-hwega

(pronoun.)
Grammar
ǽlc-hwega, -hugu
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every Ðæt ic hwelcnehugu (ǽlcne-, Cott. MS.) dǽil gesecge Alexandres dǽda, Ors. 3, 7; S. 110, 13

Linked entry: hwega

hwega

Grammar
hwega, v. hú-, hwæt-, hwilc-hwega.

Linked entries: hwugu hugu

hwilc-hwega

(pronoun.)
Grammar
hwilc-hwega, -hwugu, -hugu [in the Northern Gospels the whole form is declined, elsewhere only hwilc]; pron.

Someanysome one

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Hafaþ ðæt mód hwylce-hugu scyldo habet animus aliquem reatum, Bd. 1, 27; S. 496, 42. Hwylce-hugu tíd aliquanto tempore, 4, 22; S. 591, 31. Huælchuoego quid, Mk. Skt. Lind. 13, 15. Huoelchuoegu aliquid, Rtl. 146, 23

húfe

Grammar
húfe, Add: <b>húf,</b> e
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Húfe cuphia vel mitra, (omitted after Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 65, see) Angl. viii. 450. Hættes, húfan mitrę, An. Ox. 5242. Húfan mitrę i. tigera, 2, 440. Mitrae hættes, húfan tigera, snóda, Hpt. Gl. 525, 9

Clofes hoo

(n.)
Grammar
Clofes hoo, Clofes hó;hós; hóas; óa; hóum; m.
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Cliff, near Rochester Her sinoþ wæs æt Clofes hoo [æt Clofes hó, col. 2] in this year [A. D. 822] there was a synod at Cliff, Chr. 822; Th. 111, 14, col. l; 110, 14, col. l, 2. Æt Clofes hóum at Cliff, Th. Diplm. A. D. 803; 52, 32: A. D. 825; 73, 12.

Linked entry: Cleofes hoo

ge-bleód

(part.)
Grammar
ge-bleód, -bliód; part. [ge-, bleoh, bleó a colour, hue, complexion]

Colouredof different coloursvariegatedgifted with beautybeautiful in countenancecolōrātusversĭcŏlorspĕcie prædītusaspectu formātus

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Coloured, of different colours, variegated, gifted with beauty, beautiful in countenance; colōrātus, versĭcŏlor, spĕcie prædītus, aspectu formātus Ða wyrta greówon, mid menigfealdum blóstmum mislíce gebleóde the plants grew, diversely coloured with manifold

Linked entries: -bleód ge-bliód

elles hwá

(pronoun.)

anyali-quis

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any; ali-quis, March. &sect; 136, 5 a

hund-wille

(adj.)
Grammar
hund-wille, hund-welle
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hundredfold Hundwelle centesimum, Mt. L. 13, 8