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án-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
án-líc, ǽn-líc; adj. [án one, líc like]

ONLYsingularincomparableexcellentelegantbeautifulunicuseximiusegregiuseleganspulcher

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Lamb. fol. 195 a, 12: Te Dm. Thomson 37, 12. Ic spearu-wan swá some gelíce gewearþ, ánlícum fugele factus sum sicut passer unicus, Ps. Th. 101, 5: Exon. 56a; Th. 198, 12; Ph. 9: Beo. Th. 507; B. 251.

a-sécan

(v.)
Grammar
a-sécan, -sécean; p. -sóhte; pp. -sóht [a, sécan to seek] .

to search or seek outto seek forto requiredemandeligererequirerepetere aliquid ab aliquoto seekgo toexploreadireexplorare

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to search or seek out, to seek for, to require, demand ; eligere, requirere, petere aliquid ab aliquo Asécean ða sélestan to seek out the best, Elen. Kmbl. 2035; El. 1019 : 813; El. 407.

Linked entry: a-sóht

Cartaine

(n.)
Grammar
Cartaine, nom. acc; gen. a; dat. um; pl. m.
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The Carthaginians; Carthaginienses Wilnedon Cartaine friðes to Rómánum the Carthaginians sued for peace to the Romans, Ors. 4, 6; Bos. 87, 12.

ceápian

(v.)
Grammar
ceápian, ode; od

To bargain, chaffer, trade, to contract for the purchase or sale of a thing, to buy, to bribenegotiari, emere, comparāre

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To bargain, chaffer, trade, to contract for the purchase or sale of a thing, to buy, to bribe; negotiari, emere, comparāre Ceápiaþ óþ-ðæt ic cume negotiamini dum venio, Lk. Bos. 19, 13.

Linked entry: a-ceápian

Ii

(n.)
Grammar
Ii, Hii,

Iona

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Now there must always be in Iona an abbot and not a bishop, and to him all the bishops of the Scots must be subject, for Columba was abbot, not bishop, Chr. 565 ; Erl. 18, 1-8.

mán-dǽd

(n.)
Grammar
mán-dǽd, e; f.

An evil deedcrimesin

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Ðá ðá hé ða módigan preóstas for heora mándǽdon ðanan út ádréfde and ðérinne munecas gelógode, Chart. Th. 227, 21. Wolde mid mándǽdum menn beswícan, Cd. 23; Th. 29, 16; Gen. 451

nídþearfness

(n.)
Grammar
nídþearfness, e; f.

necessitycompulsionnecessityneedneedtroubledistress

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necessity, compulsion Mid rihtre nýdþearfnysse gebǽded justa necessitate compulsus, Bd. 2, 2; S. 502, 27. necessity, need (for something) Mycel nýdþearfnys is ðæt ðæt gesceád ... necessaria est magna discretio, 1, 27; S. 497, 17. need, trouble, distress

niht-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
niht-líc, adj.

Nightlyof the nightnocturnal

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For nihtlecum ege, Past. 56; Swt. 433, 11. Hí swuncon on nihtlícum réwette, Homl. Th. ii. 384, 24. Ða steorran sint mannum tó nihtlícere líhtinge gesceapene, i. 110, 15. On nihtlícre tíde at night, Lchdm. iii. 234, 21 : 270, 26.

Linked entry: nihte-líc

ræfnan

(v.)
Grammar
ræfnan, p. de.
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Th. 302, 3; Fä. 30. v. á-ræfnan and cf. dreógan for the same two meanings

Linked entry: a-rǽfnan

ge-blandan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-blandan, -blondan; p. -bleónd, -blénd, pl. bleóndon, -bléndon; pp. -blanden, -blonden [ge-bland],

to blendmixminglemiscēreturbáreto staincolourcorruptinfĭcĕre

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to blend, mix, mingle; miscēre, turbáre Hí me gebléndon unswétne drync they mixed for me an unsweet drink, Exon. 29 a; Th. 88, 10; Cri. 1438 : Andr. Kmbl. 65 ; An. 33. Wurman geblonden mixed with scarlet, Exon. 60 a; Th. 218, 14; Ph. 294.

cyrten

(adj.)
Grammar
cyrten, adj.
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Þá geceás man þá twégen cnihtas, for þám þe hí wǽron cáflice and cyrtene, Hml.

cláþ

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Voc. ii. 57, 37. v. bed-, bord-, eaxl-, flyhte-, fót-, sweor-, wæter-cláþ

dyrstig-ness

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Hé wearð deád for þǽre dyrstignysse ꝥ hé dorste onginnan þǽra sácerda þénunga, Hml. A. 59, 188. Se ealda feónd onféng swilce dyrstinysse (bylde, v. l., ausum ) tó ácwellanne, Gr. D. 75, 32.

ealdor-scipe

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Preóstum gedafenað for ðám ealdorscípe ꝥ hí heora biscope beón underþeódde, Ll. Th. ii. 378, 25: Hml. Th. i. 344, 32. Petre þæne ealdorscipe hé ǽrest betǽhte, Wlfst. 176, 14.

eást-weard

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Substitute for the example Eástweard orientem uersum, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 225, 9. defining direction of motion Gewende se here eástweard intó Frommúðan, Chr. 998; P. 131, 12.

feorh-lege

(n.)
Grammar
feorh-lege, feorh-lege, es; m.

death

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Nú ic on máðma hord mínne bebohte fróde feorhlege I to the king of glory give thanks that I might for my people ere the day of death so much gain. Now a hoard of treasures have I prudently got as the price of my death, B. 2800. Substitute:

ge-stal

(n.)
Grammar
ge-stal, an obstacle.
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Gestálum objectionibus (for meaning of objectio cf. ea quae tibi obiciuntur ab his what these witness against thee, Mk. 14, 60), Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 30: 63, 27. recrimination (?)

girning

(n.)
Grammar
girning, e; f.
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Fram middaneardes gyrninge fæstað a mundi ambitione ieiunant, Scint. 53, 18. desire for doing. v. girnan; Hié beóð onǽlede mid ðǽre gierninge (girn-, v. l.) ðára smeáunga Godes wísdómes ánes solius contemplationis studiis inardescunt, Past. 45, 17. desire

Linked entry: geornung

hreóh

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(For forms with w see hreóh storm, hreóh-nes; ) rough of weather, sea, &c., tempestuous Sió hlúde ýd on ðǽre hreón sǽ procella saeviens, Past. 437, 16.

hlyst

hearinghearinglistening

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Th. 91, 3. the action of intent hearing, listening Hé ábeád for þǽre duguðe deóp ǽrende . . . hlyst wæs þǽr inne (there was attentive hearing given), Az. 169. Hlyst ýst forgeaf, An. 1588. Þonne swíað hé and hlyst gefeð, Ph. 143