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be-feallan

to fall,to get intoto fall into sininto the hands of a person, to fall to actionto fall upontake effect on a personto fall tobe assigned todeprived (of)

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(Cf. se gescyrta es underféhð fela naman, 51, 7.) Seó óðer præteritum geendað on ii, ac on ðǽre ne befeallað ná má worda, 166, 9. befeallen (æt) deprived (of) Hí wǽron æt hiora yldran befeallen(n)e, Lch. iii. 424, 13

hwilc-hwega

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S.) wosa a Nazareth palest aliquid boni esse Jn. L. l, 46. See next word

sige

(n.)
Grammar
sige, es ; m.
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</b> success in commerce :-- Oxan grasiende gesihþ sige ceápas (-es ? or sigeceápas ?) getácnaþ, oxan slápende gesihþ yfelnysse ceápes getácnaþ. Lchdm. iii. 200, 9

scild

(n.)
Grammar
scild, sceld, scyld, es; m.
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Th. 656; B. 325. fig. a shield, protection: — Scild mín beo ðú refugium meum es tu, Ps. Spl. T. 70, 4. Ðam biþ Dryhten scyld, Exon. Th. 229, 31; Ph. 463. scyld in the following passage is used of a bird's back (as being shield-shaped ?

Linked entries: scyld hrung sceld

frymþ

(n.)
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Dele 'es; m.' and in l. 15 'Frymþas . . . Lye', and add Frymð origo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 73. Frymþum exordia, i. principia, 145, 75. the beginning of something From frymþe middangeardes, Chr. 6; P. 6, 1. Frimþe, 616; P. 23, note 4.

furþum

Take herein Dict., and add:even,just

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Ne án furðum ealra wǽre non est usque ad unum, Ps. Th. 52, 2, 4. Nǽnig forðum wæs þæt hé eft síðade hyhta leás, Gú. 895. to the object Feáwa . . . cúðen . . . furðum án ǽrendgewrit of Lædene on Englisc áreccean, Past. 3, 15.

bión

(v.)
Grammar
bión, ic bió, bióm, he bióþ, pl. bióþ, bieþ, biaþ; subj. bió, bie

to beesse, existere, fieri

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to be; esse, existere, fieri Ic bió swíðe fægn I shall be very glad, Bt. 40, 5; Fox 240, 24. Bióm, Jn. Rush. War. 7, 34. Hwæt iów ðý bet bió oððe þince what is or appears to you the better? Bt. Met. Fox 10, 130; Met. 10, 65: Beo.

þeód-wita

(n.)
Grammar
þeód-wita, an; m.
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P. 5; Th. ii. 308, 12. a man of great wisdom or learning, a sage Wá eów ðe taliaþ eów sylfe tó ðeódwitan ve, qui sapientes estis carom oculis vestris, Wulfst. 46, 26. <b>II a.

yfel-willende

(adj.)
Grammar
yfel-willende, adj. (ptcpl.)
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Infelices esse, qui sint improbi, liquet, Bt. 38, 6; Fox 208, 8-11. Mid ðé ne wunaþ se yfelwillenda non habitabit juxta te malignus, Ps. Th. 5, 4: 9, 18. Ðæt yfelwillende mód malitiosa mens, Past. 35; Swt. 243, 7.

á-gitan

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Add: to find, get to know a person Wille wé be him áwrítan swá swá wé hine ágeáton we will write of him as we found him , Chr. 1086; P. 219, 19. a fact Gif se abbod his geearnunga swá ágitt quem si talem esse perspexerit abba , R. Ben. 110, 3.

Linked entry: á-gytan

eglan

Grammar
eglan, eglian.
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Him (Cain) eglde ðæt hé (Abel) wæs betra ðonne hé meliorem se esse doluit, Past. 235, 8. Gif ðám gífran ungemetlicu sprǽc ne eglde nisi gulae deditos immoderata loquacitas raperet, 309, 3.

hát-heort

(adj.)
Grammar
hát-heort, adj.

Furious, angry, irascible, passionate, ardentfuriosus, iracundus, fervens

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Timotheus hé ongeat hátheortran ðonne hé sceolde ferventioris spiritus vidit esse Timotheum, 3; Swt. 291, 22. Ðá wæs heora sum réðra and hátheortra ðonne ða óðre then was one of them fiercer and more furious than the others, Blickl. Homl. 223, 6

mǽr-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
mǽr-líc, adj.

Greatmagnificentglorioussplendidillustrious

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Hwæðer ðé ðonne þynce unweorþ and unmǽrlíc seó gegaderung ðara þreóra þinga . . oððe hwæðer hit ðé þince eallra þinga weorþlícost and mǽrlícost obscurumne hoc, atque ignobile censes esse, an omni celebritate clarissimum? Bt. 33, 1; Fox 120, 31

mæssian

(v.)
Grammar
mæssian, p. ode

To say mass

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To say mass Be ðam sacerde ðonne hé mæssaþ hwæt hé on him hæbbe de iis quibus indutus esse debet sacerdos, cum missarn celebrat, L. Edg. C. tit. ix.; Th. ii. 128, 19. Mæssode se apostol ðam folce. Homl. Th. ii. 478, 14.

be-sceáwian

(v.)

to contemplatebeholdto considerto see about take care of

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Uton geþencan hú besceáwigende wé scylon beón úre sáwle cogitemus quam perscrutantes esse debemus animae nostrae. Ll. Th. ii. 226, 34. to see about, take care of: Hálige fatu hé besceáwige vasa sacrata conspiciat, R. Ben. 1. 62, 2.

ge-leánian

(v.)
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(gen. ) Þá þá seó tíd neálǽhte ꝥ him sceolde beón geleánod his swá mycelre þrowunge and geþylde cum tempus esset, ut tanta ejus patientia remunerari debuisset, Gr. D. 282, 5. to repay, requite injury, wrong-doing, &amp;c.

ge-mǽne

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Oft wséron teónan weredum gemæne ( facto est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Lot, Gen. 13, 7), Gen. 1897. belonging to a community, public Tó úre gemæne þearfe, Ll. Th. i. 230, 15: 232, 2. Æt úrum gemǽnum sprǽce, 5.

mund-byrd

(n.)
Grammar
mund-byrd, e; f. (v. mund, mund-bora).

protectionpatronageaidthe fine paid for a violation of mund

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Ic mundbyrd on ðé hæfde tu es meus protector, Ps. Th. 70, 5. Heó funde mundbyrd æt ðam mǽran þeódne, Judth. 9; Thw. 21, 2; Jud. 3 : Andr. Kmbl. 1447; An. 724: Exon.35a; Th. 113, II; Gū. 113.

be-þurfan

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Gif þú taperas ( = es?) beþurfe, 120, 16. Gif he máran gærses beðyrfe, Ll. Th. i. 434, 17. Lege to ðám sáre þe man beþurfe apply it to the wound for which it is needed. Lch. 322, 4.

ge-miclian

(v.)
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Th. 103, l) magnificatus es, Bl. Gl. On ðǽm naman Drihtnes wé sýn gemyclade, Ps.