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on-bíd

(n.)
Grammar
on-bíd, (-bid ?), es; n.

Awaiting, expectation

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Long is ðis onbíd worulde lífes long in this life is this waiting for the next, 164, 30; Gú. 1019.

Linked entry: an-bíd

heonon-weard

(adj.)
Grammar
heonon-weard, adj.

Going hence ⬩ passing away

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Going hence, passing away Ðeós world is heononweard this world is passing away, Blickl. Homl. 115, 20: Cd. 71; Th. 86, 15; Gen. 1431

land-lyre

(n.)
Grammar
land-lyre, es; m.
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Loss of land For his landlyre hér on lande on account of his loss of land in this country, Chr. 1105; Erl. 240, 11

weorold-sceaft

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-sceaft, e ; f.
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A creature of this world, an earthly creature Wuldres Waldend and woruldsceafta, Exon. Th. 188, 20; Az. 48. Woruldsceafta wuldor, 190, 16; Az. 74

ge-eftgian

(v.)
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to repeat Þá þá hé þis gelómlíce spræc mid geeftgodre (geeftgadrode, v. l.) sprǽce cum hoc iterata crebro voce repeteret, Gr. D. 277, 1

Linked entry: eftgian

forþ-werd

(n.)
Grammar
forþ-werd, [ = -weard]

Forthward ⬩ those who are present ⬩ præsens

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Forthward, those who are present; præsens Ðis gemet [imperativus] sprecþ forþwerd this mood [imperative] speaketh to those present, Ælfc. Gr. 21; Som. 23, 23

swá

(adv.)
Grammar
swá, swǽ, swé (swé is the form in Ps. Surt. ; see also Txts. 600, col. 1. The form also occurs in Blickl. Homl. 23, 7).
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</b> swá swá such as Onlegena strengran swá swá is áróm stronger applications such as is copperas, Lchdm. ii. 192, 22. adv. defined by that which precedes of manner or condition so, in this or that way, thus 'Beón gegaderode ða wæteru' . . .

Linked entries: se swǽ eall-swá

earmlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
earmlíc, sup. earmlícost; adj.

Miserable, wretched ⬩ mĭser

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Ðæt is earmlícost ealra þinga this is the most wretched of all things. Bt. Met. Fox 19, 55; Met. 19, 28: 27, 32; Met. 27, 16: 28, 148; Met. 28, 74

ídlian

(v.)
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Add: to be or become empty, be unoccupied, v. ídel; 1 Fram ǽlce bígonge þis land ligeð tólýsed and ídlað in wéstenne ab omni cultura destituta in solitudine vacat terra, Gr.

stefn

(n.)
Grammar
stefn, a summons.
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Add: a fixed time for doing something Hí setton stefna út tó Lundene, and man beád þá folce þider út ofer ealne þisne norðende they fixed times for coming to London, and the people over all this north part were called out thither, Chr. 1052; P. 175,

CÝÐAN

(v.)
Grammar
CÝÐAN, p. ic, he cýðde, cýdde, ðú cýðdest, cýddest; pp. cýðed .

to make known, tell, relate, proclaim, announce ⬩ nuntiare, annuntiare, narrare, referre, effari, prædicare ⬩ to declare, reveal, manifest, shew, perform, confess, confirm, testify, prove ⬩ notum facere, revelare, manifestare, ostendere, perhibere, confiteri, testari, probare

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to make known, tell, relate, proclaim, announce;nuntiare, annuntiare, narrare, referre, effari, prædicare Wordum cýðan to make known in words, Cd. 102; Th. 135, 14; Gen. 2242: Exon. 12a; Th. 19, 7; Cri. 297. Ongan Dryhtnes ǽ georne cýðan he began the

Linked entry: ge-cýðan

-tig

(suffix)
Grammar
-tig, -ty, a numeral suffix in words denoting the decades; up to 60 such words are formed with a suffix only, from 60 to 120 hund is prefixed and tig suffixed, hund-seofon-tig, hund-twelf-tig. Other dialects make a distinction in the numerals at the same point. Gothic uses tigus (pl. tigjus) in the earlier, -téhund in the later, O. Saxon -tig in the earlier, while 70 is given by ant-siƀunta; in
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O. H. Ger. the two forms are -zug and -zó. In O. Frs. and Icel. the same forms are used throughout. Tig is another form of the root seen in ten (tehan, g for h according to Verner's Law)

cwom

(v.; part.)
Grammar
cwom, pl. cwómon came; venit, venerunt; have the same meanings as the contracted forms com, pl. cómon, p. of cuman , q. v. The p. indic., pl. cwómon,-an, -un; p. subj.
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Ðá hleóðor cwom when the sound came, Cd. 181; Th. 226, 29; Dan. 178. Ðá ðú ǽrest cwóme when thou first camest, Exon. 39a; Th. 129, 25; Gú. 426. Hwonne bearn Godes cwóme when the child of God should have come, 10a; Th. 10, 6; Cri. 148. To Hierasalem cwómon

feówertig-feald

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Þis feówertigfealde fæsten (Lent) wæs ásteald . . . ðá ðá Móyses fæste feówertig daga and feówertig nihta tósamne, Hml. Th. ii. 100, 1: Wlfst. 285, 15. Add

fóra

before ⬩ ante

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S. 33; Th. i. 396, 17, note 51 has this reading for fór, or fóre before; ante, q. v. under for-, or fóre

heort-hogu

(n.)
Grammar
heort-hogu, e; f.

Heart-care

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Heart-care Ðis mæg tó heorthoge ǽghwylcum bisceope this may be care of heart for every bishop, L. I. P. 5; Th. ii. 308, 27

Linked entry: hogu

weorold-þearfa

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-þearfa, an; m.
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One who is needy in the matter of this world's goods Ic eom wǽdla and worldþearfa ego egenus et pauper sum, Ps. Th. 69, 6

efen-sárgung

(n.)
Grammar
efen-sárgung, e; f.
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Compassion Þá heó þis gehýrde, heó wénde ꝥ hit má wǽre bysmrung þonne efensárgung quod audiens irrisionem potius credidit quam compassionem, Gr. D. 180, 8

Linked entry: sárgung

tóbrocen-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
tóbrocen-líc, adj.

Frail, ⬩ perishable

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Frail, perishable Ðysse worulde wela is hwýlwendlíc and feallendlíc and tóbrocenlíc the wealth of this world is transitory and decaying and frail, Wulfst. 263, 13

hwol

Grammar
hwol, An. Ox. 37, 6. The word is given as a gloss to infingens in the passage : Inruit in quamdam spinulam . . . medelanium plantae ipsius
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infigens, Guth. Gr. 153

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