MÆGEN
MAIN ⬩ might ⬩ strength ⬩ force ⬩ power ⬩ vigour ⬩ efficacy ⬩ virtue ⬩ faculty ⬩ ability ⬩ an exercise of power ⬩ effort ⬩ a mighty work ⬩ miracle ⬩ a force ⬩ military force
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Se wæs mid his dǽdum snelra ðonne hé mæ[ge]nes hæfde he was quicker in his actions than in proportion to the force he had; celeritate magis quam virtute fretus, Ors. 2, 5; Swt. 78, 27.
Linked entry: mægn
á-feorsian
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Hí áfyrsiað nǽddran, Hml. Th. i. 304, 20. Þæt hé áfyrsode ðæs deófles éhtnysse him fram, ii. 528, 5. Hé þám mannum hyra líf áfyrsode istis vitam abstulit . Gr. D. 162, 7. Áfyrsa hí expelle eos , Ps. L. 5.
Linked entries: á-firsian afor-feorsian á-fyrsian
ir-scipe
Anger
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Anger Æfter mycelnes[se] his irscipes secundum multitudinem iræ suæ, Ps. Lamb. second 9, 4
ge-týdan
To happen ⬩ contingĕre
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To happen; contingĕre Getýdde hit, ðæt ... it happened that..., Bt. 16, 2; Fox 52, 34
birgels
A burial-place, sepulchre ⬩ sepulcrum
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A burial-place, sepulchre; sepulcrum Him sylfum to birgelse in possessionem sepulcri, Gen. 23, 9
ge-dwolsum
Erroneous ⬩ errōneus
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Erroneous; errōneus Hit biþ swíðe gedwolsum it is very erroneous, Ælf. Pref. Gen. 4, 10
Linked entry: -dwolsum
geornlíc
Desirable
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Desirable Hit biþ geornlíc ðæt ... it is desirable that..., Ors. 4, 13; Bos. 100, 28
slecgettan
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To palpitate, beat, throb Seó wamb cloccet, swá swá hit slecgete. Lchdm. ii. 220, 18
sin-birnende
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ever burning, continually burning Hit ( the fire of Etna ) simle biþ sinbyrnende, Met. 8, 52
Linked entry: birnan
þurh-brengan
to bring through
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to bring through Hé tóslát sǽ and hé þurhbróhte ( perduxit ) hig, Ps. Lamb. 77, 13
Linked entry: brengan
un-sceamlíce
Shamelessly
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Shamelessly Ðæt [hié] mid ðám hæleðum hǽman wolden unscomlíce, Cd. Th. 148, 19; Gen. 2459
Linked entry: sceamlíce
un-slíped
Unloosed
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Unloosed His tungan bend wearð unslýped solutum est uinculum linguae ejus, Mk. Skt. 7, 35
ge-bán
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Bones Mid his gebána reliquium (gebǽnum, v.l.) apud mortua sua ossa, Gr. D. 86, 11
ge-beddian
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to make a bed Him wearð gebeddod mid hnescre bed*-*dinge, Hml. S. 37, 191
Linked entry: beddian
hundteóntigfealdlíce
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A hundredfold þá englas sǽdon þæt him wǽre hundteóntigfealdlíce máre myrhð toweard, Wlfst. 237, 9
hreáw-ness
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Rawness of a hide. v. hreáw; Grénre hýde hreáwnesse recentis corii cruditate, An. Ox. 3283
midde
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On middan þǽre flóre his botles in medio tuguriunculi, Hml. Th. ii. 144, 3. Add
mid-irfenuma
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A co-heir Þ on yrfwerdnysse his mid-yrfenuma (coheres) þú sý, Scint. 148, 4
Linked entry: irfe-numa
ómian
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to rust Swá ár ómað yfelnysse his sicut aeramentum eruginabit malitia illius, Scint. 196, 5
spátl
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Se sácerd æthrínð mid his spátle þæs mannes nose and eáran, Wlfst. 35, 12. Add