ge-nápan
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This word, as regards form and meaning, is uncertain
loh-sceaft
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and add: a stick with a strap to it (?)
sæl
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Dele 'Icel. salr a hall' in bracket, and add:
trem
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., and add:
brýcþ
uses, thou usest
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uses, thou usest; 3rd and 2nd pres. of brúcan
FLǼSC
FLESH ⬩ căro
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FLESH; căro Se gást is hræd, and ðæt flǽsc ys untrum spīrītus promptus est, căro autem inflrma, Mt. Bos. 26, 41: Mk. Bos. 14, 38. Ðæt Word wæs geworden flǽsc, and wunode on us the Word became flesh, and dwelt in us, Homl.
ge-sceád
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Gesceád oracula (apostolorum), An.
medumian
to fix the measure of anything ⬩ to deem worthy ⬩ respect ⬩ esteem
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Man sceal medmian and gescádlíce tóscádan ylde and geógoþe youth and age must have their proper place assigned them, and be discreetly distinguished, vii. 52; Th. i. 328, 18. Medmian (medemian), L. C.
Linked entry: medumung
fiht-wíte
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Ælfwine abbod intó Ramesége saca and sócna . . . fihtwíte and ferdwíte, 421, 31: 411, 31
hæg-weard
A hayward, the keeper of cattle in a common field, who prevented trespass on the cultivated ground, ⬩ agellarius
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sworn at the court, took care of the tillage, paid the labourers, and looked after trespasses and encroachments : he was termed fields-man or tithing-man, and his wages in 1425 were a noble.
folc
a people ⬩ a nation ⬩ an army ⬩ a race ⬩ tribe ⬩ sect ⬩ lay-folk ⬩ the laity ⬩ the people ⬩ followers ⬩ the people ⬩ the common people ⬩ country-folk ⬩ folk ⬩ men ⬩ people ⬩ folks ⬩ a crowd ⬩ company ⬩ troop ⬩ people ⬩ folk
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On landa gehwám folcum fracoðe An. 409: GO. 792. On þissum folcum (the peoples of Sodom and Gomorrah), Gen. 2499. Sodoma and Gomorra fýre gesyllan, and þás folc sleán, cynn on ceastrum, 2506. Hé slóh þeóde folc manige percussit gentes multas, Ps.
Linked entry: þeód-scipe
under-neoþan
Underneath
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Underneath Þurhscoten mid ánre flán underneoðan óðer breóst sagitta sub mamma trajectus, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 134, 23.
Linked entry: neoþan
land-mearc
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Þegnas and ceorlas habbað landmearke, hú mycele má geríst hyt ꝥ seó tíd hæbbe mearke, Angl. viii. 326, 12. Add
mere-grot
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Add: material Heó hafað stánas hwíte and sinewealte swylce meregrotu (-grotan, v. l. ), Lch. i. 314, 21. Þá betstan meregrotu, Bd. 1, 1; Sch. 8, 18. figurative Þás mere*-*grota þám beforan lecgan þe þisra þinga gýman wyllað, Angl. viii. 308, 43
gafol
A fork
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., and add Furca, furcula diminutive gæfle, Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 82. Hé sceal habban ... race, geafle, Angl. ix. 263, 7. Forcelle gæfle, dictae quod frumenta celluntur, i. commoventur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 17
gang-tún
A draught-house
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Add: A draught-house Hí worhton ánne gangtún þǽr ðǽr se god Baal ǽr wæs gewurðod (they brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house ; fecerunt pro æde Baal latrinas, 2 Kings 10, 27), Hml. S. 18, 379
Linked entry: tún
ge-nerian
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</b> to cure of disease :-- Hé eów fram blindnesse bóte gefremede, and fram unclǽnum generede deófla gástum. El. 301. Generad fotus (cf. fotus gelácnod, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 77), An.
-bald
Bold ⬩ courageous ⬩ honourable ⬩ audax ⬩ virtuosus
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Eádbald happily bold, from eád or eádig and bald
in-fród
Very old ⬩ very wise
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Very old or very wise Hé him helpe ne mæg eald and infród ǽnige gefremman old and stricken in years he can afford him no help, Beo. Th. 4889 ; B. 2449. Him wæs wén ealdum infródum, 3752 ; B. 1874
un-gedyrstig
Faint-hearted ⬩ diffident
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Faint-hearted, diffident Ða unmódigan and ða ungedyrstigan wénaþ ðæt ðæt suíðe forsewenlíc sié ðætte hié dóð and forðon weorðaþ oft ormóde pusillanimes vehementer despecta putant esse, quae faciunt, et ideirco in desperatione franguntur, Past. 32; Swt
Linked entry: ge-dyrstig