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sang-bóc

(n.)
Grammar
sang-bóc, f.

a music-book, one of the service books, containing 'besides the canticles, the hymns which were used in the Anglo-Saxon churches.'

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Maskell's Monumenta Ritualia, i. cii Ðæt synd ða hálgan béc ... sangbóc ..., L. Ælfc. C. 21; Th. ii. 350, 13. Mæssepreóst sceal habban ... sang-bóc ..., L. Ælfc. P. 44; Th. ii. 384, 1. Nú sindon ðǽr ( in the church at Exeter) ii. fulle sangbéc.

web

(n.)
Grammar
web, webb, es; n.

A web, woven stuff

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Goldfág scinon web æfter wágum shot with gold shone the work of the loom along the walls, Beo. Th. 1994; B. 995. Webbum peplis, Hpt. Gl. 507, 12. Webbu swá hwilc swá wyfð, and blisse gesihð, gód ǽrende getácnaþ, Lchdm. iii. 210, 28

Linked entry: wæbb

ǽ-melness

want of energy or of interest, slothweariness, tedium, disgust

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Ðǽr beóð ealle unrótnyssa, ádl and yrre and ǽmelnys taedia, tristitiae, indignatio, languor (Dóm. L. p. 25, 115), Wlfst. 139, 18: Dóm. L. 228. Unrótnes, ǽmelnys taedia, tristitiae, 260. Snoffan ǽmylnysse nausiae tedio, Angl. xiii. 369, 50.

á-dún

Grammar
á-dún, -dúne (-a).
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Ben. 31, 8. Úre blód fleóð tó úrum fótum ádúne, Hml. S. 11, 191. Doppettan ádúne tó grunde, Hml. Th. ii. 516, 7

hádre

(adv.)
Grammar
hádre, hǽdre; adv.

Clearly

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Clearly [of light and of sound] Hádre scíneþ rodores candel the lamp of the firmament [the sun] shines brightly, Beo. Th. 3147; B. 1571.

Linked entry: hǽdre

heáh-burh

(n.)
Grammar
heáh-burh, gen. -burge; f.

A chief town, large town; also a town having an elevated situation

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A chief town, large town; also a town having an elevated situation Ðǽr is Créca heáhburg there is the chief town of the Greeks, Bt. 1; Fox 2, 21: Beo. Th. 2258; B. 1127. Tó ðære heáhbyrig to the chief town [Babylon], Cd. 209; Th. 259, 30; Dan. 699.

tó-sceótan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-sceótan, p. -sceát, pl. -scuton

To rush in different directionsto dispersehurriedly,scatter

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Ðá tóscuton ða deóflu (cf. ðá wǽron tóstencte ða wiðerweardan gástas dispersi sunt spiritus infesti, Bd. 5, 12; S. 629, 7; it is this passage in Bede which Ælfric is quoting), Homl. Th. ii. 352, 4.

sweþel

(n.)
Grammar
sweþel, sweoþol,es; m.

A swathe, wrap, band, bandage; cf. swaddling band, clothes of a funeral pile in whose fire the body is wrapped

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Wuduréc ástáh sweart ofer swioðole (swicðole, MS.) the smoke rose black above the pile where Beowulf's body lay enwrapped, Beo. Th. 6281; B. 3146, cf. swaþul

wíf-cyn

(n.)
Grammar
wíf-cyn, wíf-cynn, es; n.

woman-kindwomenfemale sex

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Hwylce wihta beóð óðre tíd wífcynnes, óðre tíd wǽpned*-*cynnes? Salm. Kmbl. p. 202, 12 : Lchdm. iii. 10, 12

á-tyhtan

to stretchtendereattendereextenderein-tendereto persuadeincite

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Ben. I. 84, 10

Linked entry: á-tiht

a-dǽlan

(v.)
Grammar
a-dǽlan, p. ede; pp. ed,

To partdivideseparatepartiridividereseparare

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To part, divide, separate; partiri, dividere, separare He sceal wesan of eorþan feor adǽled he shall be far parted from the earth, Cd. 106; Th. 140, 4; Gen. 2322.

fóre-tiohung

(n.)
Grammar
fóre-tiohung, -tiohhung, -teohung, -teohhung, e; f.

A fore-appointingpredestinationprædestĭnātio

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Be ðære Godes fóretiohunge concerning the predestination of God, 40, 5; Fox 240, 13. Sió godcunde fóretiohhung the divine predestination, 40, 6; Fox 242, 9

Linked entry: fóre-teohung

fúl

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
fúl, es; m.

A convicted offenderreus, qui scĕlĕris damnātus est

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Be ðon ðe fúl friðiaþ concerning those who protect a convicted offender, 8 titl; Th. i. 164, 1

Linked entry: fúl

mamorian

(v.)
Grammar
mamorian, mamrian

to be deep in thought about anything

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to be deep in thought about anything(?) Hí mamriaþ mín and unriht they are plunged in thought of crime and wrong; scrutantes scrutinio, Ps. Th. 63, 5.

ge-neát-riht

(n.)
Grammar
ge-neát-riht, es; n.

The conditions regulating the tenure of the 'geneát-land :'

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The conditions regulating the tenure of the 'geneát-land :' -Geneát-riht is mistlic be ðam ðe on lande stænt. On sumon he sceal land-gafol syllan ... villani rectum est varium et multiplex secundum quod in terra statutum est.

wrídan

(v.)
Grammar
wrídan, wríþan; p. de

To put forth shootsbe productive

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To put forth shoots, be productive Weaxaþ and wrídaþ, . . . fyllaþ eówre fromcynne foldan sceátas, teámum and túdre. Cd. Th. 92, 21; Gen. 1532. Wríðende sceal mǽgðe ðínre monrím wesan, 105, 33; Gen. 1762.

deorfan

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II. to be in peril :-- On frecednesse he dyrfð periculo periclitat, Lch. iii. 151, 10, 15. Manega for éhtum durfon multi propter opes periclitauerunt, Scint. 215, 13

ge-fiscian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-fiscian, p. ode
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.), to fish for, catch or try to catch fish Críst dyde þæt hí mid his heofonlican láre manna sáwla gefixodon . . . be dám cwæð se wítega : 'Ic ásende míne fisceras, and hí gefixiað hí' ( ego mittam piscatores, et piscabuntur eos, Jer, 16, 16), Hml.

Linked entry: fiscian

pistol-rǽding

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Be ðyssere tíde (Advent) mǽrsunge spræc se apostol Paulus on ðyssere pistolrǽdinge tó Rómániscum leódum (Rom. 13, 11 sqq.), 600, 31. Add

treówlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
treówlíce, adv.

Faithfullytruly

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R. 218, 13. pouz ze be trewe of zowre tonge and trewliche wynne, Piers P. i. 177