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ge-fýsan

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Heorte gefýsed sæcce séceanne a heart fiercely stirred strife to seek, 2561. Wiga gúðe gefýsed a warrior burning for battle, 630. Sorgende folc, hearde gefýsed ( sternly urged on ), Crl. 891.

ge-gada

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Seó myltestre began faran hire gegadan, Hml. A. 195, 21. Hét se cásere his gegadan faran and beódon þám crístenum ꝥ hí cómon him , Hml. S. 28, 41

ge-scrýdan

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Dele last passage for which see <b>ge-scirdan,</b> and add: To clothe a person with (mid) a garment Hé hine gescrýdde mid his byrnan, Hml. S. 25, 279: Hml. A. 130, 479. Hí mid hǽran hí gescrýddon líce, Hml. S. 12, 36.

ge-drípan

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., and add: to cause to fall in drops Þæt Lazarus mid hys fingre hym gedrípte weteris on þá tungan, Solil. H. 67, 29.

ládian

(v.)
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D. 240, 10. (1 a) to clear of a charge, Past. 308, 7 (in Dict.). to excuse a fault, Ors. 5, 2; S. 216, 31 (in Dict.)

notian

(v.)
Grammar
notian, <b>I a.</b>
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Underféngon hí hyra horsa brúcenne and notienne, Gr. D. 16, 4. Þǽra (hláfa) ic breác notigende, Hml. S. 23 b, 521. Add

tilung

Grammar
tilung, <b>.
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S. 17, 215. add: the getting of something Wulfas and león habbað ... máran tuxas heora metes tilunge, Hex. 16, 7

rynel

(n.)
Grammar
rynel, es; m.

A runner, messenger, courier

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Pilatus hét geclypian his ǽnne rynel and hym cwæþ : Yrn and clypa mé ðone ðe ys Jesus genemned. Se rynel swá dyde and myd mycelum ófste wæs fotþyrnende ... Hí clypodon Pilate : Héte ðú ðýnne bydel and ðýnne rynel hym swá ongeán cuman?

Linked entry: rynele

rihtlǽcan

(v.)
Grammar
rihtlǽcan, p.-lǽhte

To make right, rectify, correct, amend

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Æfter ðam ðe hé sylf geriht wearþ hé began georne mynstera wíde geond his cyneríce rihtlǽcynne after his own life was ordered aright, he began to set the monasteries in order, Lchdm. iii. 440, 2

á-wyrtwalian

(v.)

to pluck up or out by the rootto extirpateeradicateexterminateto pluckdraw away

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Add: to pluck up or out by the root, lit. Onweg ácorfenum þám tungum swylce hí áwyrtwalode wǽron abscissis radicitus linguis, Gr. D. 241, 12. fig. to extirpate, eradicate, exterminate Ic áwyrtwalie extirpo (gaudia carnis ), An. Ox. 186, 26.

be-fleán

to strip the skinbark offto strip off

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befleánne euiscerandum, Germ. 393, 109. Beflægen excoriatus, Wrt. Voc. i. 27, 33.

styrian

(v.)
Grammar
styrian, p. ede, ode
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Duruþegnum wearð hildbedd styred ( disturbed; referring to the only course that seemed left to the cannibals, when the prison was found without their intended victims, viz to feed on the bodies of the dead prison-guards), Andr.

Linked entry: stirian

stician

(v.)
Grammar
stician, p. ode.
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Kmbl. 344; Sal. 171. to be inherent Seó godcundnys ðe on ðam men sticode, Homl. Th. ii. 386, 19. to be in possession of (of demoniacal possession), to lurk Deófol ðé sticaþ on daemonium habes, Jn.

ge-nemnan

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</b> genemnan to speak of as :-- Heó hié sylfe ðeówene genemde (cf. Ic eom Drihtnes þeówen, 20), Bl. H. 9, 24.

of-gán

(v.)

to demand what is due, seek satisfaction for, require, exactto require what is not due, to exact with violence, extortto require what is not one's due but is granted as a favour or for a fair equivalent, to obtain, hold by allowance of anotherto start of, make a beginning of anything.

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his brother was his heir, according to the concession he had obtained of the king.

Linked entry: of-eode

here-beácen

a war-signala beaconan ensigna lighthouse

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Similar entries Cf. fýr-tor Herebeac[n] farus, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 2: 41, 45. Herebécn heál cum sǽnesse forus in edito promontorio, An. Ox. 575. Herebeacn, 1701

a-ídlan

(v.)
Grammar
a-ídlan, p. ede; pp. ed.

To become idlefree fromvacareTo profaneprofanare

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To profane; profanare Monige ðone geleáfan mid unrihte weorce a-ídledon multi fidem iniquis profanabant operibus, Bd. 4, 27; S. 604, 5

a-weaxan

(v.)
Grammar
a-weaxan, p. -weóx, -wóx; pp. -weaxen; v. intrans.

To waxgrowarisecome forthcrescereoririprovenire

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To wax, grow, arise, come forth; crescere, oriri, provenire Him aweaxeþ wynsum gefeá to them shall grow winsome delight, Exon. 26 a ; Th. 77, 7 ; Cri. 1253: Ps. Th. 128, 4: Exon. 103 a; Th. 391, 24; Rä. 10, 10 : 103 b; Th. 392, 6; Rä. 11, 3: Elen.

Linked entries: a-weóx a-wóx

Eást-Francan

(n.)
Grammar
Eást-Francan, pl. m.

East-FranksFranci orientāles

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East-Franks; Franci orientāles Wyð norþan Donua ǽwylme. and be eástan Ríne, syndon Eást-Francan to the north from the spring of the Danube, and to the east of the Rhine, are the East-Franks, Ors. I. 1; Bos. 18, 30.

fæderen-cyn

(n.)
Grammar
fæderen-cyn, fædren-cyn, -cynn, es ; n. [cyn a race, kin]

A paternal kin or race păternum gĕnus

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A paternal kin or race; păternum gĕnus Hiera ryht fæderencyn [fædrencynn, Th. 87, 14, col. 1] gǽþ to Cerdice their direct paternal kin goes to Cerdic, Chr. 755 Th. 86, 14, col. 1.