mál
an action ⬩ suit ⬩ cause
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Se cyng sealde his lande swá deóre tó mále swá heó deórost mihte made as hard terms as ever he could, 1086; Erl. 220, 8
týdran
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Hér seó gálnese týdrode (týtrode, MS.) hir[e] cyn on hire sylfre multitudinem vitiorum avaritia nigro lacte nutrit, Gl. Prud. 57 b. Ǽlces landes gecynd is, ðæt hit him gelíce wyrta týdrige (týdre, Cott.
mann-líca
A human form ⬩ image of a man ⬩ statue
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Eall Adames cynn ðe módor gebær tó manlícan all the race of Adam that mother gave the form of man to at birth, Wulfst. 137, 26: Dóm. L. 131.
beorþor
child-bearing ⬩ partus ⬩ gestation ⬩ partus ⬩ foetus
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Þurh hire beorþor sceolde beón gehǽled eall wífa cynn, 5, 23. ꝥ hé wǽre fram Þám módorlicum beorðrum on ꝥ mynster befæst Hml.
ge-libban
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K. 16. to get by living, to live to do Hé cyng beón sceolde, gif hé hit gelifode he should have been king, if he had lived to do it, Chr. 1093; P. 228, 11. Fulne ende þínes lífes þú hæfst gelifd plenam etatis finem habes, Nar. 30, 11
Linked entries: ge-leofian ge-lifian
ondryslíce
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Awfully, terribly Hú egeslíce and hú andryslíce se heálica cyngc þǽr gedémeð ánra gehwylcum for ǽrdǽdum, Wlfst. 137, 2. Swíðe ondryslíce ierribiliter, Gr. D. 119, 24
un-wuniendlíc
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Uninhabitable Beóð twégen dǽlas on twá healfa ðam gemetegodum dǽle unwuniendlíce, for ðan ðe seó sunne ne cymð him nǽfre tó, Lchdm. iii. 262, 2
Linked entry: wunigend-líc
ceáp-cniht
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Ceápcniht, 29, 28. v. cýpe-cniht in Dict
hagol-stán
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Cymð rén and hagolstánas ofer eów, 212, 24. Add
un-weorþ
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add: of low estate Preóst þe bið cýpa, and of þám áríst of unwurðum men tó wurðfullum negotiator clericus ex ignobili gloriosus, Chrd. 70, 6
seld-
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Him ( the phenix ) sette sóð cyning sellícran gecynd ofer fugla cyn, 221, 4 ; Ph. 329. Ic ǽfre ne geseah syllícran cræft. Andr. Kmbl. 1000 ; An. 500 : Rood Kmbl. 8 ; Kr. 4
á-dón
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Him hét se cyng ðá eágan út ádón, Chr. 1096; P. 232, 22
ge-reordan
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Is hit cyn ꝥ gé þone mid eówrum gástlicum lárum gereordian þe eów mid his woroldlicum gódum gereordað, Ll. Th. ii. 410, 27. Hu heó mihte þurh Godes láre hire sáwle gereordigan, Hml. Th. ii. 440, 19. Ic beó gereordod uescor, An. Ox. 56, 348.
lufen
Hope
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Sceal eall éðelwyn eówrum cynne lufen álicgean [lufena licgean, MS.] all delight in their country and hope shall fail your kin, Beo. Th. 5764; B. 2886
fearn-bed
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Andlang weges oꝥ hit cymꝥ tó fearnbedde, C.D.B. ii. 386, 13. For 'R. 85, Lye' substitute
mór-beám
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Add: — Cyme tó þám treówe þe man háteþ mórbeám, Lch. i. 330, 19. Heora mórbeámas, Ps. L. 77, 47. [ Lat. morus.] See next word, and múr-beám
rynele
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A stream Hér yrneð úp se æftra streám þǽre godcundan sprǽce, sé cymð of þǽre rynelan (þám burnon, v. l. ) þæs gástlican ǽsprynges, Gr. D. 94, 14
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mid
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., níwe gáte cýse ofergeseted mid þá eágbrǽwas ( laid on by means of the eyelids ), Lch. i. 352, 6
sceacdóm
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Flight, hurried departure Nolde ná Iacob cýðan his scæcdóm (sæcdóm, Thw.) his sweore noluit Jacob confiteri socero suo, quod fugeret, Gen. 31, 20. v. preceding word
ge-þun
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Dyne, geþun, cyrm clangor, tubarum sonus vel vox tubae, 131, 52. Dyne vel geþun crepaculum, sonum, 136, 13. Add