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un-rétu

(n.)
Grammar
un-rétu, (-o); f.

Anxiety ⬩ disquiet

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Anxiety, disquiet Ðá bǽdon mec míne geféran ðæt ic on swá micelre módes unréto and nearonisse mec selfne mid fæstenne ne swencte rogantibus amicis ne me anxietate et jejunio condeficerem, Nar. 30, 23

Linked entry: rétu

unriht-dǽd

(n.)
Grammar
unriht-dǽd, e; f.

Evil-doing

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Evil-doing Hé eall ðurh his unrihtdǽde áþýstrade universa prove agendo obnubilavit, Bd. 5, 13; S. 633, 33. God wyle ðæt Sunnandæg freóls beó fram eallum unrihtdǽdum and þeówétlícum weorcum, Wulfst. 292, 7

un-scoren

(adj.)
Grammar
un-scoren, adj.

Unshorn ⬩ unshaven

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Unshorn, unshaven Locc unscoren coma vel cirrus, Wrt. Voc. i. 42, 45. Hí beón unscorene sint inrasi, Anglia xiii. 408, 609. Hí lange tíd eodon ealle unscorene and sídfeaxe, Ap. Th. 6, 12

Linked entry: sceran

wischere

(n.)
Grammar
wischere, (?), es; m.

A wizard

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A wizard Mannum is tó witenne ðæt manega drýmen maciaþ menigfealde dydrunga þurh deófles cræft, swá swá wischeras dóð, and bedydriaþ menn, swylce hí sóðlíce swylc þincg dón, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 466

wudu-þistel

(n.)
Grammar
wudu-þistel, es; m.

Wood-thistle

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Wood-thistle Wuduþistel. Ðeós wyrt ðe man carduum sylvaticum, and óðrum naman wuduðistel nemneþ, Lchdm. i. 224, II: iii. 28, 21. Wuduþistles ðone grénan mearh ðe biþ on ðam heáfde, ii. 358, I

corn-wurma

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Substitute: A scarlet dye, and add Cornuurma vr[r]miculus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 45. Conuurma coccus, An. Ox. 1064, note. Gor[n]wurman murice, 1064. Be cornwurman de muricibus, 1067. Cornwurmum, 5141

clipol

(adj.)
Grammar
clipol, adj.
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sounding, vocal Hig deóplíce þá stefna þæs lyftes swége gesleáð, and mid þǽre tungan clypole þæne swég gewynsumiað, Angl. viii. 313, 15. v. hlúd-clipol. vowel Þæne clypolan .a., Angl. viii. 314, 16

Linked entry: clypol

feorh-fægen

(adj.)
Grammar
feorh-fægen, adj.
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Glad to live Ðá hí ðus hí sylfe earhlíce betealdon, þá hét se cásere hí faran swá hwider swá hí woldon, and hí feorhfægene him fram sóna ðanon eódon, Hml. S. 23, 309

Linked entry: fægen

folce-getrum

(n.)
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The passage is Him þá Abraham gewát and þá eorlas þrý þe him ǽr treówe sealdon mid heora folce getrume. Perhaps for the last half-line might be read trume mid heora folce

gebyrd-boda

(n.)
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one who announces a birth Sé onsended wæs . Summo de throno . and þǽre clǽnan . Clara voce . þe gebyrdboda (þá gebyrd bodade?) . bona voluntate . ꝥ heó sceolde cennan . Christum regem, Dóm. L. 36, 17. (?)

ge-clips

(n.)
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clamour Geclibs clamor, Past. 222, 9. Ne wend þú þé on þæs folces unrǽd ..., on heora sprǽce and geclysp (-clæsp, -clebs, -cleps, v.ll. ), Ll. Th. i. 54, 7. Geclibs forlǽtan, Past. 222, 13

Linked entries: -clips ge-clibs

glíw-cynn

(n.)
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a kind of music(?) On glywcú in tibiis (tibiis seems to have been taken in the sense of pipes, and to be explained as glýwcyn, a kind of music (?)), Ps. L. 146, 10. (?)

Linked entry: glywcum

heáh-sunne

(n.)
Grammar
heáh-sunne, (?), an; f.
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The arch-sun, the Deity Wǽre þú forinwordlíce dysig ðá þú wilnodest þæt þú scoldest myd swilcum æágum þá heáhsunnan (heán sunnan ?) and ǽce geseón ( velle illum solem videre ), Solil. H. 34, 17

láþ-lic

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Þám líchaman bið láðlic legerbed gegyrwed, Wlfst. 187, 12. Láðlic lurida An. Ox. 23, 59. Hé hrýmde mid grimlicre stefne and láðlicre, Shrn. 120, 30. Láþlice grymetunga truculentos fremitus An. Ox. 2388. Add

rimpan

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Take this to ge-hrimpan, and add: [v. N. E. D. rimple.]: <b>Rín.</b> Add:to last passage after eá (in Ríne þǽre eá, Riine þa eae, v. ll. )

scín-cræftiga

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Þá þá scíncræftigan (drýcræftigan, v. l. malefici) wurdon árásode . . . Basilius se scíncræftiga férde, Gr. D. 27, 15-21. Hí befæston ꝥ wíf drýum and scíncræftigum puellam maleficis tradiderunt, 73, 16: 74, 10. Add

staþol-fæst

(adj.)
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Transfer last passage under to and add there: steady Cild bið cumlíðe, þancful, staðolfæst, Lch. iii. 192, 8. Staþolfæstes wífes stabilis mulieris, Scint. 226, 3. Staþelfæste tremmincge firmo (scripturarum) fulcimento, An. Ox. 1420

tó-settan

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Twá and hundseofontig bóca sind on bibliothécan, for þan þe hig sume sind tósette on twá ( some of them are put into two parts ) for heora langnysse, Ælfc. T. Grn. 19, 32. Add

þreál

Grammar
þreál, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Ne áteóra þú for Drihtnes þreále (cf. deficias cum ab Domino corriperis, Prov. 3, ii), Hml. S. 33, 217. Add Hé gehét him Godes yrre and yfele þreála, Hml. S. 31, 803

þúsend-feald

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In the first passage þúsendfealdgetæl should be read, as after þæt the declension would be definite and the form would be þúsendfealde. Cf. hundfeald-getel. Add: Þúsendfealde milleni, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 284, 15