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mæst

(n.)
Grammar
mæst, es; m.

Mastfruit of forest trees

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Mid wude and mid felde mid mæste cum sylva et cum agro, cum porcorum esca, iv. 202, 2. Micle beámas ða ðe mæst and wæstm mannum bringaþ ligna fructifera, Ps. Th. 148, 9

niht-gerím

(n.)
Grammar
niht-gerím, es; n.

Reckoning by daysnumber of days

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Ealra hæfde Similar entries v. and syxtig ðá hé forþ gewát and nigon hund eác nihtgerímes in all the number of his days when he died was nine hundred and sixty-five years, Cd. Th. 72, 28; Gen. 1193

þrymm

(n.)
Grammar
þrymm, es; m.

a hostgreat body of peoplea forcemultitudea great body of waterforcepowermightglorymajestymagnificencegreatnessgrandeur

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Eall ðæt ða þeódguman þrymme ( by force or gloriously? ) geeodon, Judth. Thw. 26, 17; Jud. 332. Se mec mæg écan meahtum, geþeón þrymme, Exon. Th. 427, 14; Rä. 41, 91. Bewyl þrimme ( strongly, thoroughly ) ðæt ealo on ðære wyrte, Lchdm. ii. 276, 14.

Linked entry: þrym

þorn

(n.)
Grammar
þorn, es; m.
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Þornas and brémelas spinas et tribulos, Gen. 3, 18. Sume feóllon on þornas; and ða þornas weóxon and forðrysmudon ða, Mt. Kmbl. 13, 7: Mk. 4, 7. Swá ðú bærne þornas fýre sicut ignis in spinis, Ps. Th. 117, 12.

ídel

(n.)
Grammar
ídel, es. ; n.
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[The Latin translated in Lch. iii. 214, ii is: Si uideris multas capras, uanitatem significat; the Latin original of Guth. 70, 2 is: Non est praetereundum silentio . . .] See next word

windwig-ceaf

(n.)
Grammar
windwig-ceaf, es; n.

A husk winnowed from the grain

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A husk winnowed from the grain Windwig-ceafum paleis (the passage is: Non te hordeo alam, sed paleis et fame conficiam, Ald. 34), Hpt. Gl. 464, 3

Linked entry: ceaf

wic-dæg

(n.)
Grammar
wic-dæg, (wicu-, wuce-), es; m.
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Ðæt hí ðý feórþan wicdæge and ðý syxtan ( quarta et sexta Sabbati ) fæston, Bd. 3, 5; S. 527, 9.

CLÆMAN

(v.)
Grammar
CLÆMAN, de; ed

To CLAM, smear, anointlinere

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Ðú wircst wununge binnan ðam arce and clæmst wiðinnan and wiðútan mid tyrwan mansiunculas in arca facies et bitumine linies intrinsecus et extrinsecus, Gen. 6, 14. Clæm on ðone cancer smear it on the cancer, L.

rǽd

(n.)
Grammar
rǽd, es; m.
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Eth. i. 1; Th. i. 282, 5, 12. Gif þeów ete his sylfes rǽde if a slave eat flesh during a fast of his own accord (i. e. when his master does not give the meat. v. the paragraph which precedes), L. Wih. 15; Th. i. 40, 11. Ráde, 10; Th. i. 38, 21.

Linked entry: rád

pytt

(n.)
Grammar
pytt, es ; m.
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Heora mód ys swá deóp swá grundleás pytt sepulcrum patens est guttur eorum, Ps. Th. 5, 10. Gif hwá pytt ( cisternam ) ádelfe and hine ne oferhelie and ðǽr fealle on oxa oððe assa, gilde ðæs pyttes hláford ðæra nýtena wurð, Ex. 21, 33-34.

ÁÐUM

(n.)
Grammar
ÁÐUM, es; m.

A son-in-lawa daughter's husbanda brother-in-lawa sister's husbandgenersororisut et patrissororis maritus

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Cwæþ to his twám áðumum locutus est ad generos suos, 19, 14 : Exon. 66 b ; Th. 246, 22; Jul. 65. Fór to ðam cynge his áðume went to the king his sister's husband, Chr. 1091; Th. 359, 6

mæssepreóst-hád

(n.)
Grammar
mæssepreóst-hád, es; m.

The orders of a mass-priest

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The orders of a mass-priest Of ðære tíde ðæs ðe ic mæssepreóstháde onfeng ex quo tempore accepti presbyteratus, Bd. 5, 24; S. 647, 32: 5, 1; S. 613, 12

Linked entry: preóst-hád

weorold-líf

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-líf, es; n.
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Ecg. P. iv. 67; Th. ii. 228, 3. Ða ðe unrihtes on weoruldlífe worhtan, Ps. Th. 91, 6. Nis him onwendednes on woruldlífe non est illis commutatio, 54, 20: 114, 7: 118, 92 : Cd. Th. 222, 12 ; Dan. 103 : Exon.

stán

(n.)
Grammar
stán, es; m.
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Ecg. P. ii. 22; Th. ii. 190, 24. Gif friðgeard sí on hwæs lande ábúton stán oððe wille, L. N. P. L. 54; Th. ii. 298, 16. Ða gemearr ðe man drífþ ... on stánum, L. Edg. C. 16; Th. ii. 248, 6. Cf. Si quis ad fontes vel ad lapides votum voverit, L. Th.

Linked entry: stán-weorþung

níþ

(n.)
Grammar
níþ, es; m.

envyhatredenmityrancorspiteill-willjealousyaction which arises from hatredstrifewarhostilitythe effect of hatredpersecutiontroublevexationannoyanceafflictiontribulationgriefevilwickednessmalice

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Ex. 195, 197 : 346, 4; Gn. Ex. 200. Him leófre wǽre ðæt hié an swelcan niéde (MS.

rodor

(n.)
Grammar
rodor, rador, es; m.
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Kmbl. 1604; El. 804. Alwalda worhte rúme roderas, Exon. Th. 341, 30; Gen. Ex. 134

Linked entry: rador

cneów

(n.)
Grammar
cneów, es; n.

a kneegenua generation; generatio

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Kmbl. 2270; El. 1136; Ps. Th. 94, 6. Hí bígdon heora cneów befóran him they bowed their knees before him Mt.

Linked entry: cneó

wǽpen

(n.)
Grammar
wǽpen, wǽpn, es; n.

a weaponmembrum virile

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Nimaþ eówre wǽpn ponat vir gladium super femur suum, Ex. 32, 27. Gegríp (gefóh, Ps. Th.) wǽpn (wépen, Ps. Surt.) and scyld apprehende arma et scutum, Ps. Spl. 34, 2. Uoepeno, Rtl. 168, 1.

bisceop-hád

(n.)
Grammar
bisceop-hád, biscop-hád, es; m.

BISHOPHOOD, the office or state of a bishop, the episcopate, a bishopricmunus episcopale, flaminium, episcopatus, episcopi provincia

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Kmbl. 2422; El. 1212. Biscophád flaminium, Cot. 86: 186. On biscopháde ge ǽr bisceopháde in episcopatu et ante episcopatum, Bd. 4, 6; S. 574, 2, 3: 5, 6; S. 620, 19.

Linked entry: biscop-hád

wer

(n.)
Grammar
wer, es; m.
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Fǽhðe ic wille on weras stǽlan, eall ácwellan ða beútan beóð earce bordum, Cd.

Linked entry: wíf