lyffettan
To flatter
Entry preview:
Th. i. 492, 28. Lyffetyndra tungan gewríðaþ manna sáwla on synnum the tongues of flatterers bind the souls of men in sins, 494, 6
Linked entry: liffettan
mere-grot
A pebble ⬩ stone of the sea ⬩ a pearl
Entry preview:
Th. i. 596, 8
Linked entry: grot
mis-cweðan
to speak amiss or incorrectly ⬩ to curse ⬩ maledicere
Entry preview:
Voc. ii. 12, 46: Ælfc. Gr. 50, 21; Som. 51, 49. Solocismus, ðæt is miscweden word on endebyrdnysse ðære rǽdinge of ðam rihtan cræfte, 50, 22; Som. 51, 49. to curse; maledicere Se ðe miscweðes feder ł moeder qui maledixerit patri aut matri, Mk. Skt.
nǽtan
To trample upon ⬩ crush ⬩ subdue
Entry preview:
Voc. ii. 118, 3 : Ep. Gl. 18 b, 27
níd-dǽda
One who does something under compulsion
Entry preview:
H.) wǽre (unless he were forced to do it in self-defence ), L. Alf. 25; Th. i. 50, 21. Cf. Se ðe hine nédes ofslóge oððe unwillum oððe ungewealdes, 13; Th. i. 46, 22
Linked entries: nídes níd-wraca níd-wyrhta
BOLSTER
A BOLSTER, a pillow for the head ⬩ cervical ⬩ a shell ⬩ culcita ⬩ cervical ⬩ a mattress ⬩ a bolster
Entry preview:
He wæs on scipe, ofer bolster slápende erat in puppi, super cervical dormiens, Mk. Bos. 4, 38. Hit geondbrǽded wearþ beddum and bolstrum it was overspread with beds and bolsters, Beo. Th. 2484; B. 1240
ge-mangian
Entry preview:
Hwæt forstent ǽnegum men, ðeáh he gemangige ðæt he ealne ðisne middangeard áge, gif he his sáule forspildeþ what profits it any man, though he trade so as to obtain all this world, if he destroy his soul? Past. 44, 10; Swt. 332, 9; Cot. MS
Linked entry: mangian
sicol
Entry preview:
Hé sceal sicol habban, Anglia ix. 263, 5
Linked entry: sicel
syn-grin
the toil ⬩ snare which a sin constitutes
Entry preview:
Ðonne mæg se biscop ðæs mannes syngrina ( the toils of sin in which he is involved ) þurh Godes þafunge ðe swýðor gelíðian, Wulfst. 155, 26
teám-byrst
The failure to produce a geteáma in a suit.
Entry preview:
The failure to produce a geteáma in a suit.
temprian
Entry preview:
to mix in due proportion, to mingle Ic temprede (potum meum cum fletu) temperabam, Blickl. Gl. to temper, regulate, moderate Seó sunne gǽþ geond stówa and tempraþ ða eorðlícan wæstmas ǽgðer ge on wæstme ge on rípunge, Lchdm. iii. 250, 17.
þyrelian
to make a hole through ⬩ pierce through ⬩ perforate ⬩ to make hollow ⬩ to make vain
Entry preview:
obunco is glossed by ymbclipe, Wrt. Voc. i. 22, 31), Engl. Stud. xi. 66, 66. Þyrliaþ cavantur, evacuantur, hol cava, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 62
Linked entry: þyrlian
un-cræft
An evil art ⬩ ill practice
Entry preview:
An evil art, ill practice Gif hé þurh gedrinc oððe þurh óðerne uncræft man ácwelle si ex ebrietate vel alia prava arte hominem occiderit, L. Ecg. P. iv. 68, 22; Th. ii. 230, 28.
un-gerǽdness
Discord ⬩ disagreement ⬩ variance
Entry preview:
I. 21; Th. ii. 418, 15
Linked entries: ge-rǽdnes un-gerádness
ymb-gangan
Entry preview:
T. 58, 16. to go about, in the neighbourhood of Ic ymbgonge weófod circumdabo altare, Ps. Spl. T. 25, 6: Ælfc. Gr. 24; Zup. 139, 13. Hine ymbegangaþ gástas twégen, Salm.
dirne-geligere
Entry preview:
Th. ii. 152, 21. Wíf fornumen in dernegiligro ( adulterio ), Jn. R. 8, 4. Mid þǽm heó hæfde diernegeligre quem flagitiose cognitum, Ors. 3, 11; S. 148, 3. Dernegiligero adulteria, Mk. R. 7, 21. Dernegiligru and arognisse, 8, 38.
ende-mann
Entry preview:
A person living in the latest age of the world Wé endemenn ðyssere worulde (for the ideas of the time as to the end of the world cf. Wlfst. 156, 4 ; Ðeós woruld is on ofste and hit neálǽcð þám ende), Hml. Th. i. 476, 18.
fǽgan
To paint
Entry preview:
. ¶ In the following glosses there seems to be confusion either between the Latin verbs pangere and pingere or between the English verbs fǽgan and fégan: Fégð pingit (cf. gefégað conpingite, 15, 43), Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 14. Fǽgde (foegde?)
fæsten-gewerc
Entry preview:
Work at the repairing or construction of fortifications: one of the three obligations included in the trinoda necessitas. Bútan fæstengewerce and fyrdsócne and brycggeweorce, C. D. ii. 111, 16. Fæstengeworce, 24.
fiscoþ
Entry preview:
Similar entries v. fiscnoþ; II Ic an þat lond at Súðeréye mid alle ðe fiscode ðe þértó bireþ, Cht. Th. 513, 6