þegnest
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: where it occurs as the first part of a compound the form is þeónest; in the same passage, which is late, eó is written where é is the more regular form, as heót for hét; perhaps, however, the Scandinavian form has influenced the English) Service Þæs
caru
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Habban máran care úre sáwle þonne ðǽre scortan gesǽlðe to care more about our soul than about transitory happiness, ii. 460, 16
Bret-walda
A ruler of the Saxons in Britain, the chief Saxon king in England ⬩ Saxonum in Britannia rex supremus.
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The word is given in this alphabetical order because it occurs once in the Chronicle, and is thus written by historians; however, its more correct form appears to be brýten-walda, q. v
steorfa
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Andlang móres tó síferþingcsteorfan, Cod. Dip. B. i. 296, 34
hwilc-ness
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For þeáwa hwylcnysse pro qualitate morum 95, 22. Add
scearu
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Hé wearð drepen in þá sceare and þý wæs gelǽded tó deáþe percussus in inguine perductus est ad mortem, Gr. D. 324, 14. Add
dæg-langes
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Ac gyf unc swá þince uton gebyddan unc hǽr dæglanges and spurian tó morgen furður sed hodie satis, ut puto, scripsimus, Shrn. 188, 17. Add
stræclíce
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tó ðráfianne aliquando leniter arguenda, aliquando autem vehementer increpanda, 21, 1 ; Swt. 151, 12. violently, forcibly Swá swá deáð streclíce ásyndraþ sáwle fram lícham*-*an ealswá lufu Godes streclíce ásyndraþ mann fram middaneardenre lufe sicut mors
dreahnian
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Fris. druugin to strain), and add [Nim hyt á morgen and dreáhne hit þurh línnen clǽþ, and syle hym drinca, Lch. iii. 130, 22.]
un-tólísendlic
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Not to be absolved Gif þá scylda ne beóð swá myccle and swá untðlýsendlice æfter deáðe si culpae post mortem insolubiles non sunt, Gr. D. 342, 26
Linked entry: tó-lísendlic
BREÁD
A bit, fragment, morsel, BREAD ⬩ buccella, panis
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A bit, fragment, morsel, BREAD; buccella, panis Æfter ðæt breád post buccellam, Jn. Lind. War. 13, 27, 30. Hí ge-éton ðæt breád manducaverunt panem, 6, 23
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latian
To be slow ⬩ to linger ⬩ loiter ⬩ delay
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Deáþ ne lattaþ mors non tardat, Rtl. 11, 7. Eall líchoma hefegaþ and latiaþ ða fét all the body grows heavy, and the feet are sluggish, L. M. 2, 25; Lchdm. ii. 216, 23. Ic latode distuli, Cant. M. ad f. 27.
Linked entry: elcian
swítan
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Ðe lond æt Moran ic mid míne wífe bigat, and ic it siðen náwer ne forswát (-swác?) ne forspilde, Chart. Th. 584, 5
lengan
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Þonne wé eác for ðí on ðám sancge lencgað propter hoc protrahendo et morose volumus dici psalmum, R. Ben. 68, 9. Lenged protractum, An. Ox. 28, 17. Add
ánga
one and no more ⬩ only ⬩ sole ⬩ single ⬩ singular ⬩ unicus ⬩ ullus ⬩ quisquam ⬩ any ⬩ every one ⬩ all ⬩ quisque
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one and no more, only, sole, single, singular; unicus, ullus, quisquam Se ánga hyht the sole hope, Exon. 62a; Th. 227, 14; Ph. 423: 96b; Th. 360, 1; Pa. 73.
DYSIG
DIZZY, foolish, unwise, stupid ⬩ stultus, insĭpiens, insānus
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Híg sint dysegran they are more foolish, 19, 82; Met. 19, 41. Cyninga dysegast the most foolish of kings, 15, 22 ; Met. 15, 11. Dysegum neátum jumentis insipientĭbus, Ps. Th. 48, 11. Dysgum monnum by unwise men, Bt. 33, 4; Fox 130, 28: Bt. Met.
fremian
To profit ⬩ do good ⬩ be good or expedient ⬩ avail ⬩ profĭcĕre ⬩ prōdesse ⬩ expĕdīre ⬩ vălēre
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Gyf se wǽta byþ máre ðonne ðæt fýr, ðonne fremaþ hit if the moisture is more than the fire, then it does good, Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 19, 23; Lchdm. iii. 280, 9. Eów fremaþ ðæt ic fare expĕdit vōbis ut ĕgo vādam, Jn. Bos. 16, 7: Mt.
ing
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Ingi-björg, Ing-veldr, Ingi-mundr, Ingólfr : 'many more compounds are found in the Swedish-Runic stones as this name was national among the ancient Swedes; cf. also Yngvi and Ynglingar.' Cl. and Vig. Ingi.
midde-weard
Mid-ward ⬩ middle of
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Middeweard hit mæg bión þrítig míla brád oððe brádre Norway may be thirty miles or more across the middle, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 18, 31. Andlangæs bróces middesweardes along the middle of the brook, Cod. Dip. B. i. 295, 31. On middeweardum (-an, MSS. R.
fercian
to bring ⬩ carry ⬩ conduct ⬩ to support ⬩ To go
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S. 23, 597. figuratively: Man sceall þé óþer gecýþan ꝥ þú ús ná lencg ne þearft mid þínre leásunge fercian (you need not try to make us swallow any more of your lies), Hml. S. 23, 713. intrans.