Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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cran

(n.)
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.,' and add: The word occurs in local names, e.g. Cransleá, Cranmere

eáwesclíce

(adv.)
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Eáwislíce sié manifestum fiat, Rtl. 114, 1. v. newt word, and cf. eáwunga. Add

ge-meodniss

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v. medumness; but see preceding word) Rómánisca de dignitalibiis Romanorum. Add

ge-twis

Grammar
ge-twis, Substitute:
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See next word

ofer-flówness

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Add: Habban oferflównessa accipere, stipendia superflua, See preceding word (last passage)

þurh-gán

Grammar
þurh-gán, <b>.
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See preceding word

toweht

(n.)
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The word occurs among terms connected with spinning and glosses calatum ( =calathus ? Calatum is explained in Du Cange by lignum piscatorum seu piscama e lignis con-fecta, a meaning which seems not to belong to the word here). Wrt.

mylen-steall

(n.)
Grammar
mylen-steall, es; m.

A mill

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Mylenstall, 169, 9. v. next word

pílere

(n.)
Grammar
pílere, es; m.
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Voc. i. 34, 52. v. next word

sciccing

(n.)
Grammar
sciccing, a cloak, cape: — Scicing, scinccing, scicging
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Voc. i. 284, 64: ii. 13, 24. v. preceding word

stihtend

(n.)
Grammar
stihtend, es ; m.
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Th. 267, 23 ; Jul. 419. v. next word

tán-hlytere

(n.)
Grammar
tán-hlytere, es; m.

One who divines by casting lots

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Voc. i. 57, 41. v. preceding word

Linked entries: hlytere hlítere

swígness

(n.)
Grammar
swígness, e; f.
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Voc. ii. 135, 14. and next word

byrgels-sang

(n.)
Grammar
byrgels-sang, es; m.
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Ox. 3504. an epitaph, v. preceding word

ge-þyldiglic

(adj.)
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., and see next word

Linked entry: -þyldiglic

girrettan

(v.)
Grammar
girrettan, gyrrettan
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See preceding word

Linked entry: gyrretynde

rúm-gifol

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seár

Grammar
seár, siére.
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See next word. Add

tindting

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Dele: the word seems only a bad reading of tyhting. Cf. Tyhtingce suasionis, An. Ox, 3382

be-hwylfan

Grammar
be-hwylfan, l. be-hwilfan,
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and substitute Ne behwylfan mæg heofon and eorðe his wuldres word wíddra and síddra þonne befæðman mæge . . . eorðan ymbhwyrft and uprodor heaven and earth cannot form a vault that shall cover his glory's word, too wide and too ample for the globe and

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