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brýce

(adj.)
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brýce, adj.
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His hýd is brýce hundum wið wóles gewinne on dónne, Lch. i. 330, 3. Hé bið bríce ðám uferan dǽle þæs líchaman, 23, [v. N. E. D. briche. Goth. brúks useful, projitable: O. H. Ger. brúchi.] Add

clǽnsung

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Ox. 3918. cleansing from impurity, disease Clǽsnunga and swiling heáfdes hǽlo, Lch. ii. 2, 3. II. with reference to moral impurity :-- Mid clǽsnunge forhæfednesse abstinentiae castigatione, Bd. 4, 28; Sch. 526, 4. Clǽnsunge, R. Ben. 76, 5.

Eofor-wíc

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Eoferwíc, 1041; P. 163, 27: 1068; P. 202, 6. Eoforwíc weard, 1016; P. 148, 4: 1066; P. 196, 27. Hér Regnold gewan Eoforwíc (Eofer-, v. l.), 923; P. 105, 12. Heoforwíc, 948; P. 112, 30. Add

friþ-scipe

(n.)
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Of manegum landum máre ( more than the trinoda necessitas) landriht áríst cyniges gebanne, swilce is . . . scorp friðscipe and sǽweard, Ll. Th. i. 432, 8. [Thorpe would read fird-scipe.] Cf. unfriþ-scip

geond-faran

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Add: to traverse, pass through Gindfærð pertransit, Ps. L. 38, 7. Þá þe iandfarað (perambulant) paðas sǽ, 8, 9. Sideralis se circul hátte, for þan þá tunglan hine geondfarað, Angl. viii. 317, 35. to penetrate, permeate.

ge-brǽdan

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Add: to spread out Genim þá leáf, gebrǽd on gærse, Lch. ii. 124, 20. to extend, enlarge Hé gebrǽdde his ríce oþ India gemǽro ad Indium extendit imperium, Ors. 5, 2 ; S. 218, 25. Hié ne mót heore mearce gebrǽdan ofer þá eorþan. Bt. 21; F. 74, 28.

ge-wyrtrumian

(v.)
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Th. ii. 408, 19. to root up Ic gewyrtrumade eradicavi Rtl. 65, 25

holen

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ðǽam beorge ðe mon háteð æt ðǽm holne, C. D. ii. 29, 6. In ymman holig; of ymman holigne, C. D. B. iii. 223, 25. ðǽm gemǽre æt ðám holignan; of ðám holigena gemǽra, C. D. iv. 287, 27

ides

(n.)
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The word occurs as a gloss to virgo, Kent. Gl. 1196, and a weak form, idesan, glosses juvenculam (Ald. 29, 14), An. Ox. 2136. It is also found as a gloss to virgo in Aldhelm's poems (Ald. 191, 7), An. Ox. 15, 4; 17, 52: (Ald. 194, 14), An.

íw

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íwes heáfdan ... on íwdene, C. D. iii. 444, 4-6. On Íwwcumb, of Íwwa cumbe, 218, 34. Cf. íwígað, v. 240, 25

ofer-heáfod

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</b> Add: to uplift, exalt. v. ofer-hebbendlic. [Overhofen sal be over Yban his fruyte, Ps. 71, 16. Goth. ufar-hafjan sik to exalt oneself: O. H. Ger. ubar-heven sih.]

smyltness

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Add Mé sóna sum staþolfæstlic smyltnyss becóm, Hml. S. 23b, 551. Add Ꝥ yrre hæfd wununge on ðæs dysegan bósme, ꝥ is ðonne hé bið hrædmód; and se ealwealdenda déma démð ǽfre mid smyltnysse, Hml. S. 16, 343

rúm-gál

(adj.)
Grammar
rúm-gál, adj.
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Rejoicing in ample space in which to move (applied to the dove when sent from the ark) Seó culufre wíde fleáh óþ ðæt heó rúmgál reste stówe funde far the dove flew, in flight unconfined rejoicing, until a place of rest she found (cf. heó rúme fleáh,

weddung

(n.)
Grammar
weddung, e; f.

Betrothal, espousal

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[Or men wimman to louerd giue for wedding or for morgengiwe, Gen. and Ex. 1428.]

ádlian

(v.)

to ail, &c.to make ill, cause disease

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Th. i. 86, 22. to make ill, cause disease Gást ádliende spiritus pestilens, Rtl. 121, 38

riftere

(n.)
Grammar
riftere, es; m.

a reaper

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Ic cweþe riftrum mínum dicam messoribus, 13, 30. Se bær his ryfterum mete æcere, Homl. i. 570, 33

Linked entry: riptere

hæn-fugul

(n.)
Grammar
hæn-fugul, hen-, es; m.

A hen

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Gewurp sumum hen [hæn, MS. B.] fugule throw it to a hen, Herb. 4, 10; Lchdm. i. 92, 16.iiii hænfugulas four hens, Th. Chart. 509, 18. Ðǽr æfter swulten ða henne fugeles after that the hens died, Chr. 1130; Erl. 259, 25

Snotinga-hám

(n.)

Nottingham

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Nottingham Hér fór se ilca here innan Mierce Snotengahám (Snotinghám, MS. E.) Chr. 868; Erl. 72, 21. Fór hé Snotingahám and gefór ða burg and hét hié gebétan and gesettan ǽgðer ge mid Engliscum mannum ge mid Deniscum 922; Erl. 108, 30.

ge-sión

(v.)

to seebeholdvidere

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to see, behold; videre Wénaþ ða dysgan ðæt ǽlc mon síe blind swá hí sint; and ðæt nán mon ne mǽge seón [gesión, note] ðæt hí gesión ne mágon the foolish think that every man is blind as they are; and that no man is able to see what they cannot see, Bt

armélu

(n.)

Field or wild rue

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Field or wild rue, which is called Mōly [ = μώλυ] in Cappadocia and Galatia, and by some Harmāla; hence the botanical name = pēgănum harmāla, Lin. vol. ii. p. 327, = πήγăνον άγριον wild rue Armélu wyl on buteran to sealfe boil wild rue in butter to a