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ÆCER

(n.)
Grammar
ÆCER, æcyr, es; m.

a fieldlandwhat is sownsown landagerseges

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a field, land, what is sown, sown land; ager, seges For ðam is se æcer geháten Acheldemah propter hoc vocatus est ager ille Haceldama, Mt. Bos. 27, 8.

ÆG

(n.)
Grammar
ÆG, æig; g. asges; pl. nom. acc. ægru; g. ægra; d. ægrum, ægerum; n.

An EGGovum

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An EGG; ovum Gifhit [cild] æges bitt if he ask for an egg, Homl. Th. i. 250, 9. Ðæt æg [æig MS.] getácnaþ ðone hálgan hiht the egg betokens the holy hope, i. 250, 11. Gif he bit æg si petierit ovum, Lk. Bos. 11, 12.

Linked entries: ægerum ægru æig

býsgian

(v.)
Grammar
býsgian, bísgian, býsigan; p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad
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For ðǽm manigfealdum bísgum, ðe hine oft ǽgðer ge on móde ge on líchoman bísgodon [MS. bisgodan]. on account of the manifold occupations, which often busied him [king Alfred] both in mind and in body, Bt. proœm; Fox viii. 6: Cd. 64; Th. 76, 29; Gen. 1264

drohtaþ

(n.)
Grammar
drohtaþ, drohtoþ,es ; m. [dreógan to do, suffer, pass life, live]

Conversation, manner or way of life, condition, conduct, society condĭtio vitæ, stătio, conversātio

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Conversation, manner or way of life, condition, conduct, society; condĭtio vitæ, stătio, conversātio Is se drohtaþ strang ðam ðe lagoláde cunnaþ severe is the way of life for him who trieth a sea-journey, Andr.

Linked entry: droht

hréran

(v.)
Grammar
hréran, p. de

To moveshakestir

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Forhwí dréfe gé eówru mód mid unrihte fióunge swá swá ýða for winde ða sǽ hréraþ quid tantos juvat excitare motus, Bt. 39, 1; Fox 210, 25: Bt. Met. Fox 27, 5; Met. 27, 3. Hig wegdan hrérdan heora heáfod moverunt capita sua, Ps. Th. 108, 25.

Linked entry: for-hréred

lot-wrenc

(n.)
Grammar
lot-wrenc, es; m.

Deceitdeceptioncunningfrauddevicewilecraft

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For his lotwrencium, Past. 30, 1; Swt. 203, 19. Þurh ðara scuccena mislíce lotwrencas daemonum varia solertia, Bt. 36, 6; Fox 220, 14. Hé heora lotwrencas [-wrencceas, MS. B.] wiste sciens versutiam eorum, Mk. Skt. 12, 15.

Linked entries: list-wrenc wrenc

mǽg-sibb

(n.)
Grammar
mǽg-sibb, e; f.

kinshiprelationshipLove between kinsmenaffection

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kinship, relationship Eva hine hálsode for sc̃a Marian mǽgsibbe ðæt hé hire miltsade. Heó cwæþ tó him gemyne mín drihten ðæt heó wæs bán of mínum bánum and flǽsc of mínum flǽsce Eve conjured him (Christ) on account of her kinship to St.

Linked entry: mǽgþ-sibb

mága

(n.)
Grammar
mága, an; m. (cf. nið

a relativea sona man

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for similar division of meanings) a relative, Similar entries v. heáfod-, níd-mága; máge. a son Mága Healfdenes ( Hrothgar ), Beo. Th. 381; B. 189: 2953; B. 1474: 4293; B. 2143. Mága Ecgþeówes ( Beowulf ), 5168; B. 2587.

miltsung

(n.)
Grammar
miltsung, mildsung, e; f.

Mercypitycompassiona shewing mercypardonindulgence

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Ealie for miltsunge stefne uton sellan omnes pro indulgentia vocem demus, Hymn. Surt. 37, 22. Swá micclum swá ðæs mannes gecynd unmihtigre wæs swá hit wæs leóhtre tó miltsunge the weaker was man's nature, the easier was it to pardon, Boutr.

rǽd-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
rǽd-leás, adj.
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counsel anywhere, as if everything was in confusion, Chr. 1009; Erl. 142, 9. lacking what is advantageous or beneficial, miserable, desolate (v. rǽd, IV) Gé Godes cræfta nán þing ne gýmaþ, ðý is folces forfaren máre ðonne scolde oððe þearf wǽre, and for

rǽs

(n.)
Grammar
rǽs, es; m.
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Ðá wearð líg tólýsed, leád wíde sprong, hæleþ wurdon acle for ðý rǽse, Exon. Th. 277, 27; Jul. 587. Hé gúðe rǽs mid his freádryhtne fremman sceolde, Beo. Th. 5246; B. 2626. Gúðe rǽsum, 4702; B. 2356

Linked entry: rǽs-bora

self-líce

(n.; adv.)
Grammar
self-líce, es; n.
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Ðæm lytegan is ǽresð tó beleánne hiera selflíce ðæt hié ne wénen ðæt hié sién wiése . . . hé biþ ǽr úpáhæfen on selflíce for his lotwrencium in sapientibus hoc primum destruendum est, quod se sapientes arbitrantur, 30, 1; Swt. 203, 9, 18.

Linked entries: -líce -líce

be-sceran

(v.)
Grammar
be-sceran, bi-sceran, -sciran, -scyran; p. -scær, -scear, pl. -scǽron, -sceáron; pp. -scoren

To shear off, to shave, cut offattondere, amputare, præcidere

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Iulianus ðeáh to preóste bescoren wǽre though Julian had been shorn for a priest, Homl. Th. i. 448. 29.

ge-dwola

(n.)
Grammar
ge-dwola, -dweola, an; m.

errormadnessheresyerrorerrātumvesāniahærĕsisa heretichærĕtĭcus

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For mínum gedwolum pro meis errātĭbus, Bd. 4, 25; S. 601, 3. a heretic; hærĕtĭcus Begeat se gedwola ðæs cáseres fultum to his gedwylde the heretic got the emperor's support to his heresy, Homl. Th. i. 290, 11, 17, 28.

Linked entries: dwola ge-dweola

þurruc

(n.)

a small shipthe bottom part of a ship

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a small ship Þurruc cumba vel caupolus (the word occurs in a list of names for different kinds of ships), Wrt. Voc. i. 56, 30. the bottom part of a ship(?)

un-tweógendlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-tweógendlíce, adv.

without feeling doubtcertainlyunhesitatinglyso as not to cause doubtunequivocallyindubitably

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.), ðonne ða heora segene eft gelýfdon, ðe æfter heom ácende wǽron, Wulfst. 2, 12. so as not to cause doubt, unequivocally, indubitably Hé his ǽrendracan ásende tó ðære ðeóde, and him untweógendlíce secgan (say in a way that should leave no room for

un-tela

(adv.)
Grammar
un-tela, adv. (but in some cases it seems a noun?)

Not wellillbadly

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Þeáh hine hwá áhsode, for hwí hé swá dyde, ðonne ne mihte hé hit ná gereccan, ne geþafa beón nolde, ðæt hé untela dyde requiretur delictum ejus, nec invenietur, Ps. Th. 9, 35.

un-myndlinga

(adv.)
Grammar
un-myndlinga, adv.

undesignedlywithout meaning to do somethingunexpectedly

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where an act is not intended or expected by the doer of it, undesignedly, without meaning to do something Nis hit nán wundor ðeáh hwá wéne ðæt swylces hwæt unmyndlinga gebyrige, þonne hé ne can ongitan for hwí God swylc geþafaþ nec mirum, si quid ordinis

Linked entry: myndlinga

ác

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Hessels. p. 103: this may suggest an explanation for the earlier gloss aac color Txts. 53, 535, which is copied in Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 75), Txts. 93, 1749. Ác, Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 28: quercus vel ilex 79, 73. Iung ác robur 32, 28.

brǽþ

odourexhalation

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S. 23, 36. in a medical sense: Ne æppla ne wín nis tó sellanne, for ðon ðe hié habbað hátne brǽþ. Lch. ii. 212, 3. fig.: Wylm, brǽþ feruorem, i. ardorem (devotionis), An. Ox. 2511