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incer

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. ¶ plural and dual forms used of the same persons :-- Ic geseó þæt eówer mód is áwend, for ðan ðe gé eówre spéda þearfum dǽldon: gáð nú tó wuda, and heáwað incre byrðene gyrda ... Bicgað eów landáre ...

innera

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Voc. i. 44, 38. Hé férde forð ofer ꝥ wæter in þá inran land þǽra hǽðenra, Hml. S. 30, 309. concerned with the inner man Se earma innera man, ꝥ is seó wérige sáwl, Verc. Först. 93, 4. Se inra déma internus iudex, Scint. 44, 15.

smeágan

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Ymb ðyllic is tó geðencenne and tó smeáganne cui considerandum est, 59, 21. add Ic smeáde mínre dohter módes willan, Ap. Th. 23, 3. Smeágaþ mistlicnesse rimamini uarietates, An. Ox. 1080.

swegle

(adv.)
Grammar
swegle, adv.

Brightly, brilliantly, splendidly,

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Brightly, brilliantly, splendidly, in a physical sense Ðonne sió reáde ród ofer ealle swegle scíneþ on ðære sunnan gyld, Exon. Th. 68, 13; Crl. 1103.

wíf-cyn

(n.)
Grammar
wíf-cyn, wíf-cynn, es; n.

woman-kindwomenfemale sex

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Kmbl. p. 202, 12 : Lchdm. iii. 10, 12

hǽlu

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<b>IV a</b>. safety, deliverance, salvation. Cf. <b>III a</b> :-- Hine God freoðade on foldan, swá hé feora gehwylc healdeð in hǽlo (cf. nó God wolde þæt seó sáwl sár þrowode, 379), þǽr se gǽst þíhð in þeáwum, Gú. 368.

Baroc-scír

(n.)
Grammar
Baroc-scír, e; f.

The bare oak shireBERKSHIRE

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The bare oak shire or BERKSHIRE, so called from a polled oak in Windsor forest, where public meetings were held, Brompt. p. 801. It was most commonly written by the Anglo-Saxons-Barruc, Bearruc, and Bearwucscíre, Chr. 860; Th. 130, 3

Linked entry: Bearocscýre

a-wyrgednes

(n.)
Grammar
a-wyrgednes, a-wyrgednys, a-wirgnis, -niss, e; f.

A cursednesswickednessa curserevilingmalignitasmaledictio

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C.] múþ full is cujus maledictione os plenum est. Ps. Lamb. second 9, 7 : 13, 3 : Deut. 11, 29: Th. Diplm. A. D. 970; 243, 16

Linked entry: a-wirgnis

deáþ-scyld

(n.)
Grammar
deáþ-scyld, e; f. [deáþ death; scyld sin, crime]

A death-fault, capital crime capitāle crīmen

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A death-fault, capital crime; capitāle crīmen Gif gehádod man hine forwyrce mid deáþscylde if a man in orders ruin himself with capital crime, L. E. G. 4; Th. i. 168, 22; L. C. S. 43; Th. i. 400, 27

hwínan

(v.)
Grammar
hwínan, p. hwán; pl. hwinon
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To make a whistling, whizzing sound [as an arrow, etc. in its flight] Ful oft of ðam heápe hwínende fleág, giellende gár full oft from that band flew whistling the shrieking javelin, Exon. 86 b; Th. 326, 12; Víd. 127

land-gehwearf

(n.)
Grammar
land-gehwearf, es; n.
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An exchange of land; commutatio terræ Ðis is seó gerǽdnes ðe Byrhtelm biscop and Aþelwold abbod hæfdon ymbe hira landgehwerf ... Se biscop gesealde ða hída æt Cenintúne and se abbud gesealde ðæt seofontýne hýda æt Crydanbricge, Chart. Th. 191, 6

Linked entry: ge-hwearf

leóþ-cwide

(n.)
Grammar
leóþ-cwide, es; m.

A poem

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A poem Ic nát for hwí eów sindon ða ǽrran gewin swá lustsumlíce on leóþcwidum tó gehiéranne I do not know why the earlier contests are so pleasant for you to hear in poems, Ors. 3, 7; Swt. 120, 2

mǽg-scír

(n.)
Grammar
mǽg-scír, e; f.

A division of a people, containing the kinsmen of a particular family

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A division of a people, containing the kinsmen of a particular family Teá monna látwu ofer téno oððe of mégscíre is decanus super x. vel decurio (the glosser seems to have taken de as a separate word) est, Rtl. 193, 19

mos

(n.)
Grammar
mos, es; n.

A mossa marshy place

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A moss, a marshy place In ðæt micle mos; of ðæm mose. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 121, 19. Cf. Tó mossetena gemǽre, and swá big mossetena gemǽre ... Ðis syndon ðæs landes gemǽre æt mosleáge. Cod. Dip. B. ii. 56, 22, 28

Linked entry: meós

næced

(n.)
Grammar
næced, e; f.

Nakedness

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P. iv. 25; Th. ii. 212, 4. Drihten ásent hungor on eów and þurst and næcede, Deut. 28, 48

ge-wistfullian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-wistfullian, p. ode; pp. od

To feast

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Th. ii. 104, 21. Gewistfullien epulentur, Blickl. Gl. Ðæt ic mid mínum freóndum gewistfullode ut cum amicis meis epularer, Lk. Bos. 15, 29

Linked entry: wistfullian

ge-bedda

Grammar
ge-bedda, <b>; I.</b>
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Th. i. 134, 20. add Hafað him þrý gebeddan, ꝥ is greót and molde and wyrmas, Verc. Först. 92, 9. Cf. ge-resta

ge-léfed

(v.)
Grammar
ge-léfed, part. [léf infirm, weak]

Corruptedinjuredputrĭdus

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M. 2, 36; Lchdm. ii. 244, 10. Hér sindon ðurh synnleáfa sáre geléfede to manege here through impunity in sin too many are injured, Swt. Rdr. 110, 174

Linked entries: -léfed ge-lýfed

ge-metan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-metan, p. -mette; pp. -mett, -met

To paintpingere, depingere

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To paint; pingere, depingere Swylce hí gemette wǽron as if they were painted, Chr. 1104; Th. 367, 1: Lchdm. iii. 206, 18: Prov. 7. Gé sind gelíce gemettum ofer-geweorcum ye are like painted sepulchres, Homl. Th. ii. 404, 17

ge-mindig

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-mindig, adj.

Mindfulmĕmor

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Mindful; mĕmor Gemindig biþ on worulde gecýðnysse his mĕmor ĕrit in sæcŭlum testāmenti sui, Ps. Spl. 110, 5: 8, 5. Gif he sí gemindig mínum[?] naman and ðínes if he be mindful of my name and thine, Nar. 47, 9