un-getímu
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Hit for sumum ungetýmum ( casu accidente ) wearð tóbrocen, Gr. D. 97, 6. Add
ǽfen-mete
Provided with supper
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éfenmeti wéron hiá coenantibus eis, Mt. L. 26, 26
heáh-miht
Great, excellent power
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Great, excellent power On his heáhmihtum in potestatibus ejus, Ps. Th. 150, 2
fullwiht-wæter
Baptismal water
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Baptismal water Þæt tácnode ꝥ ðurh his blód fulwihtwæter gewyrþan sceolde, Nap. 27
here-paþ
A road for an army ⬩ military road ⬩ road large enough to march soldiers upon
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Wísde herepoþ tó ðære heán byrig shewed a road for his army to the lofty city, Cd. 174; Th. 218, 12; Dan. 38.
Linked entry: here-weg
scíte
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Heó hire feax gerǽdde and hí mid scýtan besweóp crines composuit, caput linteo cooperuit, Bd. 3, 9; S. 534, 13. Sum iungling mid ánre scýtan bewǽfed (amictus sindone). Mt. Skt. 14, 51, 52.
un-beweddod
unbetrothed ⬩ unmarried
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Gif Maria unbeweddod wǽre and cild hæfde, ðonne wolde ðæt folc mid stánum hí oftorfian, Homl. Th. i. 196, 11
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fiþere
a wing ⬩ a wing
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Se kok, ǽr ðǽm ðe hé cráwan wille, hefð úp his fiðru, Past. 461, 13. Seó bródige henn tósprǽt hyre fyðera and þá briddas gewyrmð, Angl. viii. 309, 26.
hæfen
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Hí biddað and wilniaþ þá heafene þysse gestreónfullan wǽdle petunt et exigunt sumptum lucrosae egestatis, R. Ben. 136, l. Hér syndon .xxx. bóca on Leófstánes hafona, Nap. 46, 41
greátnes
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</b> great bulk, swollen form :-- Swilce man siwige áne bytte and bláwe hí fulle windes, and wyrce siððan án þyrl, þonne heó tóþunden bið, on hire greátnysse, Hml. S. 34, 319
hláf-gang
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Substitute: The going to eat bread. of ordinary bread Ðá wicþénas ánre tíde ǽr gemǽnum gereorde gán tó hláfe ... ðéhhweþere freólstídum beón bútan þám hláfgange ... oð þæt hí mæssan hæbben septimanarii ante unam horam refectionis accipiant panem ...
rynel
A runner, messenger, courier
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Pilatus hét geclypian his ǽnne rynel and hym tó cwæþ : Yrn and clypa tó mé ðone ðe ys Jesus genemned. Se rynel swá dyde and myd mycelum ófste wæs fotþyrnende ... Hí clypodon tó Pilate : Héte ðú ðýnne bydel and ðýnne rynel hym swá ongeán cuman?
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wacol
Watchful ⬩ vigilant
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Ðes and ðeós wacole (-ele) hic et haec vigil, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 8; Zup. 39, 3. Ða ðe cariaþ mid wacelum móde hú hí óðra manna sáwla Gode gestrýnan, Homl. Th. ii. 78, 2. Gewinn wið ðone wacolan feónd, 560, 28. Wacele (-ole) beón on gódum weorcum, Homl.
hǽmed-þing
Carnal intercourse, venery, matrimony
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Gif hí him betwynan hǽmedþing fremmen si inter se fornicationem commiserint, 16; Th. ii. 144, 9. Be hǽmedþingnm : eallum þyrrum líchomum hǽmedþing ne dugon of venery : venery does not do for all dry constitutions, L.
ofer-hygdig
Proud, arrogant, haughty ⬩ superbus
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Ðá tǽlde hine án oferhýdig bisceop for ðon, Shrn. 129, 28. Ðone oferhygdgan superbum, Ps. Surt. 88, 11. Ða wǽron hí æfter æþelborennysse oferhýdige, Homl. Th. ii. 174, 8. Ða oferhýdegan, Ps. Th. 118, 78. Égan oferhygdigra oculos superborum, Ps.
tó-heáwan
To hew to pieces, ⬩ cut to pieces
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To zenne ne ssel he wende ayeu, þaȝ me ssolde hine al toheawe, Ayenb. 178, 7
be-windan
To wind or bind around or about, entwine, wrap, enwrap, encircle, surround, wind, turn ⬩ amplecti, involvere, cingere, circumdare, volvere
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Abraham bewand ða hleóðorcwydas on hige sínum Abraham turned the revelations in his mind, 107; Th. 140, 34; Gen. 2337
wyn
delight ⬩ pleasure ⬩ delightfully ⬩ pleasantly ⬩ a delight ⬩ that which causes pleasure ⬩ the best of a class, ⬩ the pride of its kind. ⬩ the name of the w-rune
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Hwæþere him ðæs wonges wyn (his delight in the country) sweðrade, Exon. Th. 123, 16; Gú. 323. Sý æt him sylfum gelong eal his worulde wyn, 444, 12; Kl. 46. Ðǽr wæs wuldres wynn . . . næs ðǽr ǽnigum gewinn, Andr. Kmbl. 1773; An. 889.
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fylmen
A film ⬩ thin skin ⬩ prepuce ⬩ præpūtium ⬩ omentum
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Feóllon swylce fylmena of his eágum there fell as it were films from his eyes, Homl. Th. i. 386, 31
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rǽde-gafol
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and tó gafole ne þearf hé him onfón gif hé him nán botl ne selþ if a man takes a yard of land or more at a fixed rent and ploughs it, if the lord wants to get service as well as rent, the tenant need not take the land, if the lord does not give him a