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beso-reádian

(v.)
Grammar
beso-reádian, p. ode; pp. od [baso red, purple, reádian to redden]

rubefacere

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To make a reddish purple; rubefacere Besoreáda ða rinda ealle útan make all the rinds on the outside a reddish purple [by soaking in chalybiate water?] L. M. 1, 47; Lchdm. ii. 116, 3

Linked entry: basu-reádian

ge-diernan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-diernan, p. de; pp. ed

To concealcēlāre

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To conceal; cēlāre Se ðe þiéfþe gedierne, forgielde ðone þeóf be his were let him who conceals the theft pay for the thief according to his value, L. In. 36; Th. i. 124, 17

geond-geótan

(v.)
Grammar
geond-geótan, p. -geát, pl. -guton; pp. -goten

To pour, pour outperfundĕre

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Heó mid wópe and mid teárum wæs swýðe geondgoten flētuque ac lacry̆mis perfūsa, Bd. 4, 23; S. 596, 10

Linked entry: geótan

ge-sǽlan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-sǽlan, p. de

To be successful, succeed

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To be successful, succeed Ðam ðe eahtan wile sáwla gehwylcre ðǽr he gesǽlan mæg to him who will persecute every soul if he can manage it, Exon. 37 b; Th. 123, 6; Gú. 318

sinc-hroden

(adj.)
Grammar
sinc-hroden, adj.
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Th. 473, 11 ; Bo. 13. Salu sinchroden halls richly adorned, Andr. Kmbl. 3342 ; An. 1675

sige-beáh

(n.)
Grammar
sige-beáh, g. -beáges ; m.
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Bd. 1, 7 ; S. 478, 34. Sigbég, Jn. Skt. Lind. 19, 2 : Rtl. l, 15. Sigbéh, 6, 1

un-forburnen

(adj.)
Grammar
un-forburnen, adj.

Unburntnot consumed by fire

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Unburnt, not consumed by fire Se wind ábær ðone líg tó ðæs cyninges botle, swá ðæt him ne belǽfde nán þing unforburnen, and hé sylf earfoðlíce ðam fýre ætbærst, Homl. Th. ii. 480, 7

Linked entry: for-beornan

weorold-dóm

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-dóm, es; m.
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A secular judgment, judgment by a secular court Sum wer wæs betogen ðæt hé wǽre on stale, and hine man gelæhte and æfter worulddóme dydon him út ða eágan, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 267

wudu-fugel

(n.)
Grammar
wudu-fugel, es; m.

A bird of the woods

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A bird of the woods Wudufuglas, ðeáh hí beón wel átemede, gif hí on ðam wuda weorþaþ, hí forseód heora láreówas, and wuniaþ on heora gecynde, Bt. 25 ; Fox 88, 15 : Met. 13. 35

á-cennedness

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Gif gé willað ðone fruman sceaft geþencan, and ðone scippend, and siþþan eówer ǽlces ácennednesse si primordia vestra, auctoremque Deum spectes Bt. 30, 2; F. 110, 18. v. eft-, frum-ácennedness; á-cenness. Add

Linked entry: á-cenness

blác

(adj.)
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Ðæt bleoh ðæs welhǽwnan iacintes bið betera ðonne ðæs blácan carbuncules coerulei coloris hyacinthus praefertur pallenti carbunculo, Past. 411, 29. (Cf. seó bláce blegen carbunculus. v. blegen) Add

benc

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Wæs on beórsele benc gerýmed, B. 492. Wé on bence beót áhófon, By. 213. Wǽron bollan steápe boran æfter bencum, Jud. 18. Add

burg-riht

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burg-riht, (burh-).
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Substitute: Town-right, law in a town Ne sceall hé ( the bishop ) geþafian ǽnig unriht ... ac hit gebyreð ꝥ be his rǽde fare ǽghwilc lahriht, ge burhriht ge landriht, Ll. Th. ii. 312, 20

for-bærnednes

a burn

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Injury by burning, a burn Ðeós wyrt gehǽleþ mænigfealde untrumnyssa ðæs líchoman . . . forbærnednysse. Lch. i. 272, 2: 5610. Wið forbærnednysse. Genim þysse wyrte wyrt-truman . . . lege tó þám bærnytte, 298, 10: 62, 19. Substitute:

ge-swógung

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Add: — þám men bið þurst getenge and nearones and geswógunga, Lch. ii. 194, 3: 160, 6. Se mon geswógunga þrowað and módes geswæðrunga, 206, 9. Hí heortcoþe wyrceað and angnessa and geswówunga, 176, 13

ge-drorenlic

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-drorenlic, adj.
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Þeós world is eall forwordenlic and gedrorenlic [printed gedrofenlic, but see ge-hrorenlic) and gebrosnodlic and feallendlic, Bl. H. 115, 3

god-sǽd

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In Dan. 901 the same meaning seems to be intended as in 89: ginge and góde = æðele cnihtas and in godǽde (among the children of God ?) = ǽfæste

hand-æx

(n.)
Grammar
hand-æx, e; f.
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An axe that could be used with one hand, a hatchet Handæx dextralis (dextralis securis genus, idem quod manuaria, Migne. Cf. Spanish destral a small axe or little hatchet), Wrt. Voc. ii. . 140, 1

heáfod-wund

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Add: — Þa hét hé his lǽce tó him, and bebeád him ꝥ hé þá tolýsdan geþeódnesse mínre heáfudwunde gesette uocauit medicum, et dissolutam mihi emicranii iuncturam conponere iussit, Bd. 5, 6; Sch. 581, 8

hoferian

(v.)
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to be humpbacked Houeriendne (hoferiiendne, An. Ox. 3662) gibbum Hpt. Gl. 492, 40. Hoferedne cyppum (= gibbum Ald. 50, 21, the passage to which this and the preceding gloss belong), Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 78

Linked entry: hoferede