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Anglo-Saxon

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spic-máse

(n.)
Grammar
spic-máse, an; f.

A titmouse ⬩ a tit

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A titmouse Spicmáse (Wright prints swic-) parrula. Wrt. Voc. i. 62, 40

hild-stapa

(n.)
Grammar
hild-stapa, an; m.

One who steps to war, ⬩ a warrior

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One who steps to war, a warrior, Andr. Kmbl. 2517; An. . 1260

hinder-hóc

(n.)
Grammar
hinder-hóc, es; m.

A stratagem, ⬩ artifice, ⬩ snare,

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A stratagem, artifice, snare, Exon. 83 b; Th. 315, 20; Mód. 34

Linked entry: HÓC

titul

(n.)

a title, ⬩ superscription

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a title, superscription Titul ł merca titulus, Mk. Skt. Lind. 15, 26

tó-lísend

(n.)
Grammar
tó-lísend, es; m.

A destroyer, ⬩ desolater

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A destroyer, desolater Wéstend, tólýsend desolator, vastator, Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 34

swefnigend

(n.)
Grammar
swefnigend, es; m.

A dreamer

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A dreamer Hér gǽþ se swefnigend ecce somniator venit, Gen. 37, 19

sweor-racentteáh

(n.)
Grammar
sweor-racentteáh, g. -teáge; f.

A chain for the neck

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A chain for the neck Swurracentéh catelle, Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 64. :?-

Linked entry: racent-teáh

treów-fugol

(n.)
Grammar
treów-fugol, es; m.

A tree-haunting bird

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A tree-haunting bird Treófugla tuddor, Exon. Th. 146, 9; Gú. 707

Linked entry: treów

twisehtness

(n.)
Grammar
twisehtness, e; f.

Discord ⬩ dissension ⬩ variance

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Discord, dissension, variance Fram twysehtnysse yfele a dissensionis malo, Scint. 6, 12

wíg-spere

(n.)
Grammar
wíg-spere, es; n.

A war-spear

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A war-spear Wigspere falarica vel fala Wrt. Voc. i. 35. 48

wíg-freca

(n.)
Grammar
wíg-freca, an; m.

A warrior

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A warrior Wyrsan wígfrecan, Beo. Th. 2428; B. 1212 : 4985 ; B. 2496

sprincel

(n.)
Grammar
sprincel, es; m.

A wicker-basket ⬩ trellis, lattice.

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A wicker-basket Sprinclum fiscillis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 108, 58: 35, 43

streáwberige-wíse

(n.)
Grammar
streáwberige-wíse, an; f.

A strawberry-plant ⬩ runner

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A strawberry-plant or runner Streáberiewísan framen, Wrt. Voc. i. 31, 70

Linked entry: wíse

batt

(n.)

a bat ⬩ club ⬩ cudgel

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a bat, club, cudgel Batt hec claua, An. Ox. 18 b, 18

ge-wita

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H. 177, 14. one that attests Ne beó gé nǽfre on nánre leásre gewitnysse, for þon se leása gewita ne bið hé nǽfre ungewítnod, Ll. Th. ii. 422, 38. Leáse gewitan stǽldon on mé, Ps. Th. 34, 12.

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Ǽr he [Ercol] ongan mid Creáca scypum, ðe mon dulmúnus hǽt, ðe man segþ ðæt in scip mǽge in þúsend manna before he [Hercules] began with Grecian ships, which are called dulmunus, of which it is said that one ship can hold a thousand men, Ors. 1, 10; Bos

fóre-tácen

(n.)
Grammar
fóre-tácen, -tacn, es; n.

A FORE-TOKEN ⬩ presage ⬩ sign ⬩ wonder ⬩ præsāgium ⬩ prodĭgium

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A FORE-TOKEN, presage, sign, wonder; præsāgium, prodĭgium Fóretácn écra góda a fore-token of eternal blessings, Bt. 40, 2; Fox 236, 21: Ps. Spl. 77, 48: 70, 8.

scrallettan

(v.)
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to make a loud sound Ðonne wín hweteþ beornes breóstsefan stígeþ cirm on corþre cwide scralletaþ missenlíce when wine excites a man's mind, clamour arises in the company, they cry out with speech diverse, Exon. Th. 314, 27; Mód. 20.

tilia

(n.)
Grammar
tilia, tiliga, an; m.
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Th. ii. 74, 30. Ðá sende hé to ðam tiligum (tilium, MS. A. ad agricolas) his þeów . . . Ðá cwǽdon ða tilian (coloni) . . . Ðæs wíngeardes hláford fordéþ ða tiligean (tylian, MS. A. colonos ), Mk. Skt. 12, 2, 7, 9

Linked entry: tiliga

wyrcend

(n.)
Grammar
wyrcend, es; m.

a worker ⬩ labourer ⬩ a maker ⬩ a doer.

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a worker, labourer. Similar entries v. efen-, fore-, wín-wyrcend, and wyrcan, I. a maker. Similar entries v. wyrcan, II Ic gelýfe on ǽnne God, wyrcend heofenan and eorðan, Homl. Th. ii. 596, 25.

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