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tíg

(n.)
Grammar
tíg, (?), es; m.
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Graff gives zieh forum, and Grimm, R. A. 748, cites tie a meeting-place, as a term of lower Saxony

Linked entries: fore-tíge forþ-tége

borian

(v.)

to perforateTo bore into

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Þurhþýnde, bori[gende] transver-berans, An. Ox. 230. to insert into a hole bored Borige man on þám beáme stór and finol, Lch. i. 400, 19. intrans. To bore into : Dó þú mid þínum fingre swilce þú borige inn on þíne hand, Tech. ii. 123, 11

dundre

Grammar
dundre, duntre?
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The same passage (Ald. 20, 35) is glossed duntre stefne, An. Ox. 1463, þǽre thundendan (stefne), Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 59, and bombose is glossed by ðǽre þútendan, Wrt. Voc. ii. 11, 71.

Linked entry: duntre

eln-boga

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An elmbogan in ulmam, Germ. 396, 156. Add

ge-slit

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Wearð án cnapa þurh nǽddran geslit neálíce ádýd . . . Hé sette his finger on þá wunda þe se wurm tóslát, Hml. S. 31, 951. what is bitten Eálá, ðú wyrma gecow and wulfes geslit, Nap. 28, 29

ge-werian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-werian, p. ede
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To come to an agreement, make a treaty Nalæs æfter micelre tíde ꝥ hí geweredon (waredon, v. l. ) wið him and heora wǽpen hwyrfdon wið heora gefaran non multo post, iuncto cum his foedere, in socios arma uerterit, Bd. 1, 15; Sch. 40, 6.

hæle

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Crístes cempa . . . þǽr in eóde elnes gemyndig hæle hildedeór, An. 1004. Hié gemétton háligne hæle under heolstorlocan bídan beadurófne, 144. Add

híwere

a pretendera decoy

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Similar entries v. híwian; Fácenfulle híweras, wyrh[tan] strofosi (fallaciarum) fabricatores, An. Ox. 2781: fabricatores (falsitatum), 4244. a pretender.

Linked entry: híwian

ilfette

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cf. i. 280, 10 where ciciris is given in a list of birds, but without an English equivalent. A similar list is given on p. 62, and there cignus occurs just before mergulus, as at p. 250 does ciciris ), Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 15. Cf.

segl

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Æfter siextegum daga þæs þe ðæt timber ácorfen wæs, þǽr wǽron xxx and c. gearora ge mid mæste ge mid segle, 4, 6; S. 172, 5. Add Segl larbanum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 70, 40. Segel labarum (Hpt. Gl. 456, 69 has segen), An. Ox. 2130

stille

(adv.)
Grammar
stille, adv.
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It is not possible always to distinguish between the adjective and the adverb, but the latter character mav be assumed for the word when, if an adjective, it should take the u-inflection; e. g.

coorta

(n.)
Grammar
coorta, an; m.

A band of soldierscohort cohors

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A band of soldiers, cohort; cohors He hæfde eahta ond hund-eahtatig coortena [MS. coortana], ðæt we nú truman hátaþ, ðæt wæs, on ðám dagum, fíf hund manna, and án þúsend he had eighty-eight cohorts, which we now call bands, each of which was, in those

twelf-gilde

(adj.)
Grammar
twelf-gilde, adj.

To be restored twelve-fold

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To be restored twelve-fold Godes feoh and ciricean .xii.

hreófla

(n.)
Grammar
hreófla, an; m.

A leper

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A leper Ðá geneálǽhte án hreófla tó him ecce leprosus veniens, Mt. Kmbl. 8, 2. On simones húse ánes hreóflan, Mk. Skt. 14, 3. Ðæs hreóflan, Mt. Kmbl. 26, 6.

Linked entries: hreófl hreófl

ge-cirran

(v.)
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L. 7, 6. to come to a condition, arrive at Hér cuóm micel sciphere on West-Wealas, and hié tó ánum gecierdon ( the Danes and Welsh came to an agreement ), Chr. 835; P. 62, 16.

Linked entries: ge-cerran ge-cyrran

ge-logian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-logian, l. ge-lógian,
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and add: to put together, to join Gelógod and geféged compositus, Germ. 391, 188. to collect, bring together Þ eall middaneard, swylce under ánum sunnan leóman gelógod (gegaderod, v.l., collectus), wǽre beforan his eágan gelǽded, Gr.

ge-swícan

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Búton hé eft geswíce and winne wiþ þá unþeáwas, Bt. 36, 6 ; F. 182, 4. Man forgá þ ýfðe be eallum þám þe hé age. And sé þe be wítum geswícan nylle, Ll.

CRÆFT

(n.)
Grammar
CRÆFT, es; m.

powermightstrength as of body or externals visroburpotentiaan artskillCRAFTtradework arsperitiaartificiumoccupatioopuscraft of mind, cunning, knowledge, science, talent, ability, faculty, excellence, virtue astutia, machinatio, scientia, facultas, præstantia, virtusa CRAFTany kind of ship navis qualiscunque

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Wolde ic ánes to ðé cræftes neósan I would inquire of one art from thee Andr. Kmbl. 968; An. 484. He byþ forlǽten fram ðam cræfte ipse dimittetur ab arte Coll. Monast. Th. 31, 35.

Eádwíg

(n.)
Grammar
Eádwíg, es; m. [eád happy, wíg war]

Eadwig, son of Edmund. Eadwig was king of Wessex and Northumbria for four years, from A. D. 955-959

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D. 959, Eádwíg cyning forþférde, and féng Eádgár his bróðor to ríce here king Eadwig died, and Edgar his brother succeeded to the kingdom, Chr. 959; Erl. 119, 11

fisc-cynn

(n.)
Grammar
fisc-cynn, -cinn, es; n.

The fish kindkind of fishespiscium gĕnus

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God gesceóp ðá ða micelan hwalas and eall libbende fisccinn on heora hiwum then God created the great whales and every living kind of fishes after their kinds, Gen. 1, 21: Ælfc. T. 8, 25