Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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gemynd-beniming

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Dele, and see ge-mynd; XII a

ge-sciran

Grammar
ge-sciran, l. ge-scíran,
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and add Ne mæht ðú gescíra (uilicare)

ge-span

(n.)
Grammar
ge-span, a tamarisk tree.
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Dele, and see ge-span a clasp

ge-swystra

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Dele first passage, and see ge-sweostren

ge-blénd

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Dele, and see ge-blendan to mix

ge-arfoþ

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
ge-arfoþ, ge-arfoðe.
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Dele, and see earfoþe; n., earfoþe; adj

hilfling

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., and add:

hwǽstrian

(v.)
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., and add:

leów

(n.)
Grammar
leów, pl. (?).
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', and bracket

sceamisc

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Dele, and see sceam-lim, sceamu; III

unlyb-wyrhta

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Wiccan and unlybbwyrhtan. Nap. 65, 37. Add

ǽfen-gebéd

Grammar
ǽfen-gebéd, 1. -gebed,
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and add Wrt. Voc. i. 28, 30

freoþa

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Dele, and see Similar entries fultumiend, 3

frum-scepend

Grammar
frum-scepend, -sceppend. l. frum-scippend, -scep[p]endb,
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Frumsceppend auctor, Rtl. 122, 10. and Add

ge-dwǽlan

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Dele, and see ge-dwelian, ge-dwellan

be-felgan

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Dele, and take examples under be-feólan

Bederices weorþ

(n.)
Grammar
Bederices weorþ, es ; m. [Bederices Bederic's, weorþ worth, town, or residence]

Bederic's worth or town ⬩ Eádmundes burh ⬩ St. Edmund's bury

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At an earlier date, in A. D. 958, Ælfgar records, Ic an ðat lond into Beodricheswrþe to Seynt Eádmundes stówe I give the land at Bedericsworth to St. Edmund's place, Th. Diplm. 506, 12

beorg

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Þa dúna dreósað and beorga hliða myltað montes ruent, collesque liquescent, Dóm. L. 101. an artificial mound Beorh agger, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 43, 15: tumulus, Wrt. Voc. i. 54, 5. Cumulus, i. tumulus, apex, aceruus, coaceruatio beorg, Wlck.

fýran

(v.)
Grammar
fýran, fýrian; p. de, ede

To furrow, cut with a ploughshare

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Ꝥ scer tungan úre fýrian (printed scyrian, but see An. Ox. 2492 note) ná durre eorþan heortan fremedre ut uomer linguae nostrae proscindere non audeat terram cordis alieni, Scint. 124, 5. Ongeán fírigende hand manus resulcans, iterum aperiens, An.

dæg-hwamlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
dæg-hwamlíce, adv.

Daily ⬩ quotidie

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Se bróðor dæghwamlíce wæs wyrse and wyrse the brother was daily worse and worse, Bd. 4, 32; S. 611, 24

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