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bile-hwít

(adj.)
Grammar
bile-hwít, adj. [bile the beak, hwít white, referring to the beaks of young birds, then to their nature, Junius]

Simple, sincere, honest, without fraud or deceit, meek, mild, gentle ⬩ simplex, mitis

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Simple, sincere, honest, without fraud or deceit, meek, mild, gentle; simplex, mitis Arnwi munec wæs swíðe gód man and swíðe bilehwít monk Arnwi was a very good man and very meek, Chr. 1041; Erl. 169, 12

ǽmerge

(n.)
Grammar
ǽmerge, an; f.

embers, ashes ⬩ dust ⬩ busta ⬩ embers

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Beréc hý on háte ǽmergean, Lch. iii. 30, 18. fig. dust Ic nán gást ne eom ac ǽmerge and axe and eall flǽsc, Hml. S. 23 b, 286

Linked entry: ǽmyrge

baso

(n.)
Grammar
baso, basu

a berry ⬩ bacca

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a berry; bacca, Grm. i. 244, 36

berige

(n.)
Grammar
berige, an; f.

A berry ⬩ grape

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A berry, grape, Ps. Th. 127, 3

Æðelbryht

(n.)
Grammar
Æðelbryht, -berht, -briht, es; m. [æðele, bryht bright, excellent. v. beorht] .

Ethelbert king of Kent ⬩ Ethelbert the second ⬩ Æthelbryhtus

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Ethelbert king of Kent, for fifty-six years, from A.D. 560-616. Ethelbert was converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Augustine: v. Augustinus A. D. 560 [MS. 565], hér, féng Æðelbryht [MS. Æðelbriht] to Cantwara ríce here, A. D. 560, Ethelbert

Linked entry: Berhte

fóre-wesan

(v.)
Grammar
fóre-wesan, p. ic, he -wæs, ðú -wǽre, pl. -wǽron [fóre before, wesan to be]

To be before ⬩ to preside ⬩ præesse

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To be before, to preside; præesse Ðyssum tídum fórewæs Norþan Hymbra ríce se strangesta cyning his tempŏrĭbus regno Nordanhymbrōrum præfuit rex fortissĭmus, Bd. 1, 34; S. 499, 18: 5, 18; S. 635, 35

Linked entry: fóre-eom

wearda

(n.)
Grammar
wearda, (?), wearde (?), an; m. or f.

A watchman or a watch

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Icel. varða a beacon; varð-berg a look-out place: O. H. Ger. wart-perg), Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 191, 34. Cf. On weardæs beorh, 291, 23: 112, 32. Weardan excubiae, Ælfc. Gr. 13; Zup. 84, 16

be-boren-inniht

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Dele, and see be-beran

birþ

(v.)

bears

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bears; 3rd pers. pres. of beran

be-sengan

(v.)
Grammar
be-sengan, p. -sengde; pp. -senged, -sengd

To singe, scorch, burn ⬩ ustulare, urere, æstuare

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To singe, scorch, burn; ustulare, urere, æstuare Beren ear beseng singe a barley ear, L. M. 1, 51; Lchdm. ii. 124, 18. Óðra wéron forberned oððe besenged [MS. besenced] alia æstuaverunt, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 13, 6.

Linked entry: sengan

berian

(v.)

to beat ⬩ berry

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to beat, berry (v. N. E. D. )

a-bítan

(v.)
Grammar
a-bítan, ic -bíte, ðú -bítest, -bítst, he -bíteþ, -bit, pl. -bítaþ; p. -bát, pl. -biton; pp. -biten; v. a.

To bite ⬩ eat ⬩ consume ⬩ devour ⬩ mordere ⬩ arrodere ⬩ mordendo necare ⬩ comedere ⬩ devorare

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To bite, eat, consume, devour; mordere, arrodere, mordendo necare, comedere, devorare Gif hit wíldeór abítaþ, bere forþ ðæt abitene and ne agife si comestum a bestia, deferat ad eum quod occisum est, et non restituet, Ex. 22, 13.

Linked entry: a-bát

nón

(n.)
Grammar
nón, m. (not n. )
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Se bere . . . nó tó middes dæges hám cóm, þonne him wæs beboden ꝥ hé tó nónes sceolde, ne hé hit nó ne ylde æt nón, þonne hé tó middes dæges sceolde hám cumin, Gr. D. 206, 20-23. Fram Sæternes-dæges nóne oð Mónandæges líhtincge, Wlfst. 117, 4.

ragu

(n.)
Grammar
ragu, e; f.
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Ragu and meós ( rubigo ) fornymþ ealle eówre landes wæstmas, Deut. 28, 42. v. berc-, sláhþorn-ragu

Linked entry: rægu

smíte

(n.)
Grammar
smíte, an; f.

A foul, miry place

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Ðis is ðære ánre híde landgemǽru tó Smítan . . . of ðæm sló tó Smítan; of ðære Smítan tó berge Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 166, 2-20. Of smítan on ðone stán . . . of ðære apoldran innan smítan v. 105, 13-36

Ceóles íg

(n.)
Grammar
Ceóles íg, e; f.

CHOLSEY

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CHOLSEY, Berks, near Wallingford, Chr. 1006;Th. 256, 27

for-sweóf

(v.)
Grammar
for-sweóf,
  • Beo. Th. 5621, note,
= for-sweóp

swept away

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swept away;

eafera

(n.)
Grammar
eafera, a son, Beo. Th. 2374; B. 1185. v. eafora.

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helle-hæfta

Grammar
helle-hæfta, Beo. Th. 1580; B. 788.

Linked entry: hæfta

be-slógon

(v.; part.)
Grammar
be-slógon, be-slóh

bereft

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bereft, Cd. 4; Th. 4, 17; Gen. 55; Similar entries p. of be-sleán