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FYLLAN

(v.)
Grammar
FYLLAN, = fellan; ic fylle, ðú fyllest, he fylleþ, pl. fyllaþ; p. fylde, pl. fyldon; pp. fylled; v. trans.

To fellcut downcast downthrow downdestroyprosternĕrecædĕredejĭcĕredestruĕre

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Gif ðú wylt ða firenfullan fylian mid deáþe if thou wilt fell the wicked with death, Ps. Th. 138, 16. Ic beámas fylle I fell trees, Exon. 101 a; Th. 381, 11; Rä. 2, 9.

Linked entry: fellan

hyspan

(v.)
Grammar
hyspan, p. te

To mockscorntauntrevileinsultreproach

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Tógeánes mé hyspton ealle fýnd míne adversum me susurrabant omnes inimici mei, Ps. Spl. C. 40, 8. Hyne hyspdun improperabant ei, Mt. Kmbl. 27, 44. Ðone hyspton quod exprobraverunt, Blickl. Gl.

Linked entries: hypsan hyspend hispan

land-ár

(n.)
Grammar
land-ár, e; f.
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Wilniende ðætte heó him funden swylce londáre swylce hé mid árum on beón mehte desiring that they should provide him such an estate as he might reside on with dignity, Chart. Th. 47, 21.

micel-ness

(n.)
Grammar
micel-ness, e; f.

greatnessbignesssizegreatnessmultitudeabundancegreatnessmagnificence

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His micel-nesse ne mæg nán man ámetan, Bt. 42; Fox 258, 12. greatness (of quantity), multitude, abundance Ðá wæs geworden mid ðam engle mycelnes ( multitudo ) heofonlíces werydes, Lk. Skt. 2, 13.

neoþera

(adj.)
Grammar
neoþera, niþera; adj. (without a positive form)

Lower

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Ðú generedest míne sáule of ðære neoþeran helle, Blickl. Homl. 89, 28. Neoþran, Ps. Spl. 85, 12. On seáðe ðam neoþeran in lacu inferiori, 87, 6. Cyng áh ðone uferan and bisceop ðone nyþeran, L. E. G. 4; Th. i. 168, 16.

Linked entries: niþemest niþera

racian

(v.)
Grammar
racian, p. ode.
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Hé þeódum sceal racian(rǽdan, Kmbl.) mid rihte, Andr.

ge-sceot

(n.)
Grammar
ge-sceot, -scot, es; n.

the collection of weapons necessary for shooting, a weapon that is shot or hurled, an arrow, dartjaculuman advance [of money], a contribution, tributea part of a building shut off from the rest

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Ðú of heofenum dóm mid gescote sendest de cælo judicium jaculatum est, Ps. Th. 75, 6. Ðǽr forwearþ micel Alexandres heres for geǽtredum gescotum there much of Alexander's army perished by poisoned arrows, Ors. 3, 9; Bos. 68, 38. [O. H.

Linked entries: scot ge-sceót ge-scot

slǽwþ

(n.)
Grammar
slǽwþ, e; f.
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Ic wát ðæt swongornes hí mid slǽwþe ofercymþ, 36, 6; Fox 180, 34. Gyf hé for slǽwþe his hláfordes forgýmþ, lie biþ his ágnum wel geborgen, L. R. S. 20 ; Th. i. 440, 16. Slǽwþum torporibus, Hymn. Surt. 4, 10

teóðung-dagas

(n.)
Grammar
teóðung-dagas, pl.
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Wé sceolon on ðisum teóðingdagum úrne líchaman mid forhæfednysse teóðian, Homl. Th. i. 178, 21-30: ii. 608, 20: L. E. I. 37; Th. ii. 436, 10.

west-weard

(adv.)
Grammar
west-weard, adv.
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Ðás seofon tunglan gáð ǽfre eástwerd ongeán ða heofenan ; ac seó heofen[e] is strengre and ábrét hí ealle under*-*bæc westweard mid hire ryne; and is for ðí mannum geþúht swilce séo sunne and ða foresǽdan tunglan gangon westweard.

Linked entry: eást-weard

be-stelan

to robto go secretlystealthilyto steal

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Hé bestæl út mid his stæfe hoppegende, Hml. S. 21, 417. Se þearfa bestæl in tó Martine, 31, 910. Bestæl (-steal) se here úp fram scipon, Chr. 1004; P. 135, 27

bred

a boardplanka tablet

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Sé þæt fácn tó his cýþþe gebodade, and hit on ánum brede awrát, and siþþan mid weaxe be-worhte quod per tabelias primum scriptas, deinde ceratas, suis prodidit, Ors. 2, 5 ; S. 80, 2. Ðá stǽnenan bredu ðe sió ǽ wæs on áwriten, Past. 125, 18.

cyne-scipe

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Ic (Cnut) beóde ꝥ hý fylstan þám biscopum tó Godes gerihtum and tó mínum kynescype . . . Gif hwá swá dyrstig sý . . . ꝥ ongeán Godes lage gá and ongeán mínne cynescype, Cht.

finger

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Genim cymenes swá micel swá þú mæge mid þrím fingrum foreweardum geniman, Lch. ii. 180, 20. Æt þám ó ðrum táum healf gelde, eal swá æt þám ingrum ys cwiden, Ll. Th. i. 20, 4. Add

flǽsc-lic

humanmortalanimalnaturalcarnalworldlycarnalsensualsexual

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Th. i. 532, 31-35. carnal in contrast with spiritual, worldly His þegnas wǽron þágyt flǽsclices módes, and nǽron mid gástes mægene getremede, Bl.

ge-sáwan

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Mið ðý giseów (geseáw, L.) dum seminat, Mk. R. 4, 4. Þ ðú ne gesǽwe (gesáudesd, L.) quod non seminasti, Lk. R. 19, 21. Sédo geseáwun, Mt. p. 8, 19. Gesáwe seminare, Mt. L. 13, 3. Gesáwen seminalum, 19. Þá þe gesáwene (-sáuen, L. ) synt, Mk. 4, 20.

hrepung

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Add: the action of touching with the hand or other part of the body, exercise of the faculty of feeling Godes ængel ꝥ cweartern geopenode mid his handa hrepunge, Hml. S. 4, 234. Ic gesyngode on gesihðe . . . and on hrepunge, Angl. xi. 112, 16.

hwætlíce

(adv.)
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D. 36, 11. of prompt action. of persons, with activity of body or mind Hors[c]líce, hwætlíce naviter (cf.? triumphum ... viribus naviter (v. Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 58) nanciscuntur, Ald. 2, 17), Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 47.

rǽcan

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Add Hí mihton mid heora handum rǽcean and niman þæs hálgan dústes dǽl, Shrn. 81, 16. Add Rǽc appresenta, An. Ox. 56, 18. to stretch out one's hand Ne ráhten gié hondo in mec non extendistis manus in me, Lk. L. R. 22, 53.

fyll

Grammar
fyll, fyllu(-o).

fill, full supply repletion, satiety

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Sió wamb bið áðened mid fylle for giéfernesse venter ingluvie extenditur, Past. 311, 12. Fæste hé nú ongeán ꝥ hé ǽr þurh fylle unriht gefremode, Ll. Th. ii. 284, 2. v. ofer-, untíd-, wǽl-fyll(-u, -o)