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beorc

Grammar
beorc, berc, byrc, byric a birch-tree.
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Byric populus betulus, An. Ox. 56, 364, 365. Add

brand-stefn

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Icel. brandr a ship's beak; or [brand- = brant- ?] high-prowed. Ne mæg wind áwecgan ne wæterflódas brecan brond-stæfne, An. 507. Substitute: Having a prow with a beak?

Linked entry: brond-stæfn

brogdian

(v.)
Grammar
brogdian, broddian, bródian

to glitterbe splendid

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Ald. 272, 32), An. Ox. 23, 51. Mid dislicum glengum broddiende stolidis pompis indrutieans, 1218

Linked entries: broddian bródian

dofung

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Gl. 444, 18), An. Ox. 1614. Dofunga deliramenta, 4194: (frivola) machinamenta, 2801

eást-súþ

(adv.)
Grammar
eást-súþ, adv.
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South-east Eástsúth ad euronothum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 98, 2l. Eástsúð, 4, 19. Be-eástan him is Wineda lond . . . and eást*-*súþ Maroara, Ors. 1, 1; S. 16, 10

Linked entry: súþ

Ebréas

(n.)
Grammar
Ebréas, pl. m.
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For Ebréum and Israhélum swylce . . . Judéa galdorcræftum, An. 165

fiþer-byrste

(adj.)
Grammar
fiþer-byrste, (?); adj.
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of a stick split into four at the end) Genim ǽnne sticcan and gewyrc hine feðorbyrste . . . styre mid ðý sticcan ðá buteran, Lch. iii. 24, 18

Linked entry: feþor-byrste

framiendlic

Grammar
framiendlic, framigendlic.
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An. Ox. 8, 343. Framliendlic, 2, 434. Framendlic, Hpt. Gl. 524, 28. Lege tó ðǽre miltan, hyt bið hyre nytlic and framgendlic, Lch. i. 300, 19. Add

ge-swǽsnes

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Geswǽsnusse blandimenta, i. oblectamenta, An. Ox. 607. Add

ge-treágian

(v.)
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to sew together Hýfa geholedum getreágede telgrum tuguria cauatis consuta corticibus, An. Ox. 256. In a note to this gloss is cited :-- Ꝥ getreágode hrægl, Archiv lxxxiv. 16, 224

ge-tred

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tred, es; n.
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a crowding together, an assembly of people Getred constipatio, i. conventio hominum (cf. constipatio, conuentio hominum, Corp. Gl. H. 34, 576), Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 60. a treading down

Linked entry: -tred

ge-twancg

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Voc. ii. 77, 65), An. Ox. 1517. (In both cases the passage glossed is Ald. 21, 22.)

gymmian

(v.)
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Substitute: gymian, gymman, gymmian to cut, pierce the flesh Gesyrewede [heápas] hí sylfe tó gymmienne armatas catervas (jam jamque strictis mucronibus allernatim) se jugulaturas (i. perfossuras), An. Ox. 3799

greofa

(n.)
Grammar
greofa, greaua.
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Substitute: <b>greófa,</b> an; m. A pot Greóva olla, Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 39; ii. 64, 15. [O. H. Ger. pfanna vel griupo frixorium

griþian

(v.)
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Deóres fnæstum griþode ( plebem) bestię flatibus eripuit (i. liberauit ), An. Ox. 2473. Godes cyrican wé sculan griðian and healdan unwemme, Wlfst. 67, 17. Griðian and friðian, 143, 9. Add

gorian

(v.)
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to look, gaze Swylce eác be ðám micelum muntum and dúnum þá þe hýhst standaþ and goriaþ ofer ealne middangeard, An. Ox. 5, 3 note. Goriende passiuos, 7, 6

Linked entry: gorettan

gram

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Gram, wráþ furibundus, An. Ox. 4484. Gram mordicus, Germ. 401, 29. Hé beforan þone graman cyning ( tyrannum ) gelǽd wæs, Bt. 16, 2; F. 52, 22. See next word. Add

heolorian

(v.)
Grammar
heolorian, heolrian, holrian
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to weigh in a balance Hé heolrede pensauit. An. Ox. 1597. Holrede, Hpt. Gl. 443, 75. Heolrode trutinabat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 4. Heolorende librantis, 78, 23: 52, 29

healf-cwic

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For þæm slege hé feóll ádúne, and hine man healfcwicne (-cwicc-, v. l.) upp áhóf (semivivus levatus est), Gr. D. 63, 1. Healfcwice seminecem, An. Ox. 17, 46. Add

here-reáf

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Seó sýfernes and óðre mægnu forhæfdon heó fram herereáfe (a spoliis), Prud. 54. Herereáf manubias, quae manu capiantur, An. Ox. 1925. Herereáfu spolia, Scint. 19, 8: 82, 15. Add