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wǽne

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Ualerianus wæs swíðe leás man and wrǽne aa oð ꝥ hé wæs oreald Valerianus usque ad aetatem decrepitam levis ac lubricus extitit, Gr. D. 341, 2 : 20. Add

wád

(n.)
Grammar
wád, es; n.

Woad,

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Woad, a plant much used for dyeing, which circumstance may account for the appearance of the word as a gloss to some of the following Latin words Ðis wád hic sandyx, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 69; Zup. 72, 14. Wyrt oððe wád sandix (the passage to which this gloss

Linked entry: waad

wacu

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Add: cf. wæce

wana

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
wana, adj. generally indeclinable. I.
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Hé Norþanhymbra ðeóde ánes wana .xx. wintra fore wæs genti Nordanhymbrorum decem et novem annis praefuit, 5, I; S. 614, 21

wærc

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Först. 106, 11-107, 2: v. end-, hrif-, hype-, in-, rop-, út-wærc. Add

wana

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
wana, an; m.
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Hláfes wæs wana panis deerat, Gen. 47, 13. Ðonne wana (wona, Hatt. MS. ) bið ðæs ðe hié habban woldon hae cum desunt, Past. 18 ; Swt. 126, 22. Hit nan mon ne mæg eall habban, ðæt him ne sié sumes þinges wana, Bt. 34, 9; Fox 146, 19.

Linked entries: ge-wana wan wan

wǽl-ben

(n.)
Grammar
wǽl-ben, wǽl-benn, e; f.

A wound inflicted by the sea,

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A wound inflicted by the sea, Gársecg wédde ... egesan stódon, weóllon wǽlbenna (wæl- ?) (the reference is to the death of the Egyptians in the Red Sea), Cd. Th. 208, 30; Exod. 491

wæser

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Wæser bubimus (? bulimus; cf. bulimus vermis similis lacertae in stomacho hominis habitans, Corp. Gl. Hessels, 26, 209), Wrt. Voc. ii. 126, 62

wann

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Add Hí wundrodon hwæt ꝥ þing wǽre ꝥ hé swá tóswollen heáfod and swá wanne andwlitan (lividam faciem) hæfde, Gr. D. 22, 20

wǽdl

Grammar
wǽdl, <b>; I.</b> ¶
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</b> add :-- Seó wǽdl þǽra andlyfna alimentorum indigentia, Gr. D. 145, 6: alimentorum inopia, 159, 7. <b>I b.</b> with gen. describing kind of wane :--- Add

wang

(n.)
Grammar
wang, es; m. . I. the word, which is almost confined to poetry, may be rendered by words denoting the surface of the ground taken in their most general sense,
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III. fig. of any surface Ic ( a cup for cupping) eom stíð and steáp wong, staþol wæs in þá wyrta wlitetorhtra, Exon. Th. 484, 4; Rä. 70, 2

Linked entries: ge-wenge wencge wenge

wand

(n.)
Grammar
wand, [, e; f. ?]
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a mole Wond (wand, uuond) talpa Txts. 101, 1973

Linked entry: wande-weorpe

-wand

(suffix)

Similar entry: ge-wand

wápe

(n.)
Grammar
wápe, (-a? m.); an; f.
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A cloth, rubber (?cf. wípian) Gif ðú sceát habban wille oððe wápan, ðonne sete ðú díne twá handa ofer ðínum bearme and tóbrǽd hí swilce sceát ástrecce, Techm. ii. 122, 23

wara

(n.)
Grammar
wara, an; m.
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An inhabitant. The word is used mostly in the plural, and as the second part of compounds ; but the singular in composition is found in ceaster-weara civis, Bd. 3, 22; S. 552, 32 (cf. ceaster-gewara civis, Ælfc. Gr. 5 ; Zup. 11, 16), and the independent

Linked entry: -waru

wacen

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<b>. I.</b> add: <b>I a.</b> intentional wakefulness, vigilance, v. wacung. Add Mid þý Benedictus behogode þá tíde þæs nihtlican gebedes, hé gefealh his wæcce (wacone, v.l.) (instans vigiliis), Gr. D. 170, 30. Hé hine sylfne

-wáden

(suffix)

Linked entry: wǽden

wǽge

Grammar
wǽge, <b>; II.</b>
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Wégan trutina, An. Ox. 26, 35. Add

wægn

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wǽta

Grammar
wǽta, wǽte;
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Add Gif hié cumað of biterum and yfelum wǽtum, Lch. ii. 178, 13. <b>III a.</b> add :-- Sume men of hiora scome þá wǽtan for þǽm nýde þigdon vidimus plerosque pudore amisso suam urinam uexatos ultimis necessitafibus haurientes, Nar. 9, 22