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hrið-suht

(n.)
Grammar
hrið-suht, [?], e; f.

Fever

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Rush. 1, 31

Linked entry: ride-soht

lætemest

(adv.)
Grammar
lætemest, adv.

Lastly ⬩ at last ⬩ finally

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Rush. 16, 14

lætest

(adj.)
Grammar
lætest, superl. of læt.

Last

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Rush. 22, 27

mete-fæt

(n.)
Grammar
mete-fæt, es; n.

A dish

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A dish Micel and rúm metfæt graves et ampla parabsis, Germ. 403, 18

Linked entry: met-fæt

ge-wǽlan

(v.)

to vex ⬩ afflict

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Rush. 9, 36

geond-yrnan

(v.)
Grammar
geond-yrnan, p. -arn, pl. -urnon; pp. -urnen

To run about ⬩ discurrĕre

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To run about; discurrĕre Ic geondyrne discurro, Ælfc. Gr. 47; Sons. 48, 51

sin-híwian

(v.)
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to marry Ne sinígaþ (synnígaþ, Rush.) neque nubunt, Lk. Skt. Lind. 20, 35

Linked entry: sinígaþ

scendele

(n.)
Grammar
scendele, (?), an; f.

Abuse, reproach:

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Rush. 11,8

ofer-hyrned

(adj.)
Grammar
ofer-hyrned, adj.

Having horns above

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Kmbl. 339, 8; Rún. 2

on-stíðian

(v.)

to make hard

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Rush. 12, 40

ge-talu

(n.)

tribes; ⬩ tribus,

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Rush. 24, 30 pl. nom. of ge-tæl, II

peorð

(n.)
Grammar
peorð, the name of the Runic p. Its meaning is doubtful. Grimm notices the name for f in the old Sclavonic alphabet, fert, and the Persian name for one of the figures on the chess-board, ferz. Kemble seems to take the latter, translating the word by
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The verse which accompanies the Rune in the Runic poem is the following Peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter wlancum ðǽr wígan sittaþ on beórsele blíðe ætsomne, Runic pm. Kmbl. 341, 1-6; Rún. 14

tó-licgan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-licgan, p. -læg, pl. -lǽgon; pp. -legen.

to lie or run in different directions ⬩ To lie between, ⬩ to lie and part, ⬩ to divide, ⬩ separate

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Now we will tell of Africa how the different boundaries of the countries run, Swt. 24, 21-23. Ðǽr ða wegas tólicgaþ where the roads run in different directions, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 411, 21. trans.

ge-irnan

(v.)
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</b> intrans. to run, run about Giiorniað discurrent, Rtl. 86, 36. Geurnun (currebant) tuége ætgæðre, Jn. L. R. 20, 4. <b>I a.

Linked entries: ge-urnen ge-yrnan

dægréd-wóma

(n.)
Grammar
dægréd-wóma, an; m. [dægréd daybreak, dawn, wóma a noise, rushing]

Rush or noise of dawn ⬩ auroræ strepitus

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Rush or noise of dawn; auroræ strepitus Óþ-ðæt eástan cwom ofer deóp gelád dægrédwóma, wedertácen wearm until there carte from the east over the deep way the rush of dawn, a warm weather-token, Exon. 51 b; Th. 179, 24; Gú. 1266: Andr.

þocerian

(v.)
Grammar
þocerian, p. ode
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To run to and fro, run about Þoceraþ cursat, currit, cursitat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 53. Þocerodan (vitae late praeconia) cursant, 95, 19: 19, 65.

dépan

(v.)
Grammar
dépan, p.te ; pp.ed

To dip, baptize ⬩ baptizāre

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Rush. Stv. 3, 11

níd-behéfe

(n.)

necessity

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Rush. 2, 25. (?)

Gomorringas

(n.)
Grammar
Gomorringas, pl.
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Rush. 10, 15

ge-ebolsian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-ebolsian, -eofulsian; p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad

To blaspheme

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Lind. and Rush. 15, 29; Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 27. 39

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