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Anglo-Saxon

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ofer-teldan

(v.)

to cover with an awning

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to cover with an awning Segle ofertolden. Cd. Th. 182, 26; Exod. 81

of-sprǽc

(n.)
Grammar
of-sprǽc, e; f.

An outspeaking, utterance

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An outspeaking, utterance Gydde i ofsprǽce elogio, textu, locutione, Hpt. Gl. 460, 65

on-cunning

(n.)
Grammar
on-cunning, e; f.

An accusation

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An accusation Mid gelómlícum oncunningum crebris accusationibus, Bd. 3, 19; S. 548, 3

Linked entries: cunning cunning

bed-gerid

(n.)
Grammar
bed-gerid, es; n.

An ants' nest

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An ants' nest Nime ǽmettan mid hiora bed-geride, Lch. ii. 328, 8

scír-gemót

(n.)
Grammar
scír-gemót, es; n.
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A shire-mote, a meeting of the duly qualified men of a shire Hér swutelaþ on þissum gewrite ðæt án scírgemót sæt æt Ægelnóþes stáne be Cnutes dæge cinges.

bil

Grammar
bil, bill.

a falchiona bill

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Dele Dut. and Ger. cognates, and add: [a falchion, v. Dict.] a bill, an implement for cutting (wood, stone, weeds) Síðe vel bill falcastrum, Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 16: 34, 16.

ge-þeóde

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Srt. 30, 21. ¶ tongue as distinguishing nationality (cf. Out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, Rev. 5, 9) Þæt is mid Estum þeáw þæt þǽr sceal ǽlces geðeódes man beón forbærned, Ors. 1, 1; S. 21, 11. Add

gód

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Fródne and gódne fæder Unwénes, Víd. 114. Geongne æðeling sceolan góde gesíðas byldan tó beaduwe and tó beáhgife, Gn. C. 14. (4 a) as an epithet in courteous address Nú hæbbe ic his hér on handa, herra se góda, Gen. 678.

hwearfian

(v.)
Grammar
hwearfian, p. ode

To turnchangeroll aboutrevolvewandermovetoss about

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Ǽlc gesceaft hwearfaþ on hire selfre swá swá hweól and tó ðam heó swá hwearfaþ ðæt heó eft cume ðǽr heó ǽr wæs every creature turns on itself as a wheel, and it so turns to the end that it may come again where it was before: repetunt proprios quæque recursus

Linked entry: hreafigende

cwellere

(n.)
Grammar
cwellere, es; m.

A killer, man-slayer, executioner, QUELLER, tormentor lanio, interfector, spiculator? carnifex

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Herodes sende ǽnne cwellere, and bebeád ðæt man his heáfod on ánum disce brohte Herod sent an executioner, and commanded that they should bring his [John Baptist's] head on a dish, Mk. Bos. 6, 27.

mægden-mann

(n.)
Grammar
mægden-mann, es; m.

A maidvirgin

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A maid, virgin Mǽdenman virgo. Wrt. Voc. 73, 6. Gá án mǽdenman to, and hó hit on his sweoran, Lchdm. iii. 42, 9. Gif hwylc mǽdenman on geférrǽdene mid gehádodum wunaþ si puella aliqua in societate cum ordinatis habitet, L. Ecg.

Linked entry: mægþ-mann

ambehtan

(v.)
Grammar
ambehtan, p. te: embeht(i)an (q. v. in Dict.); p. ode
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Manige cræftigan and eác má óþra weorcmanna þe þám onbyhtan (-behtum, v. l.) and hýrdon artifices multos ac plures subministrantes operarios, Gr. D. 251, 14. Embehtadon ministrabant, Lk. L. 8, 3. Embihta mé ministra mihi, 17, 8.

Linked entry: embehtian

ge-sǽlan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-sǽlan, to bind.
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II. to bind a thing, put a cord, chain, & c. round an object, to secure by binding :-- Hé hét gebindan beam ǽrenum clammum and isernum and gesǽledne in susl don (clamavit: ' Germen radicum alligetur vinculo ferreo et aereo, '.

ge-scrýdan

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A. 99, 241

steór

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Add Bið swýþe derigendlic ꝥ bisceop beó gýmeleás, and unfremful bið ꝥ folc beó bútan steóre (-a, v. l. ). Hml. S. 13, 126. Add Steóre inuectionis, An. Ox. 7, 382.

út-fær

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: 'Far of þínum lande and of þínre mǽgðe and of þínes fæder húse ?

BRÆGEN

(n.)
Grammar
BRÆGEN, brægn, bragen, es; n.

The BRAIN;cerebrum, cerebellum

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The BRAIN; cerebrum, cerebellum Wið tobrocenum heáfde, and gif ðæt brægen útsíge, genim æges ðæt geoluwe for a broken head, and if the brain appears, take the yolk of an egg, L. M. 1. 1; Lchdm. ii. 22, 19. Brægen cerebrum vel cerebellum, Ælfc.

Linked entry: bragen

hlid

(n.)
Grammar
hlid, es; n.

A lid, cover, the opening which is closed by the cover

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Ðá lédon ða þegenas ðone Hǽlend ðǽron and mid hlide belucon úre ealra Álýsend then the thanes laid Jesus therein, and closed up with a cover the Redeemer of as all, Homl. Th. ii. 262, 4.

frófor

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Þá gódan God geseóð heóm tó frófran and tó gefeán andáre, Shrn. 202, 16. His swǽsne sunu . . . feóres frófre, Exod. 404; Cri. 338. Hé frófre gecwæð . . . héht his líchoman háles brúcan, An. 1467.

ge-wemman

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and hit ácwealde heora bearn, Bl.