heáh
High
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On ðam gim ástíhþ on heofenas up hýhst on geáre ... in it [June] the sun mounts highest in the year, Menol. Fox 218; Men. 110
neáhlǽcung
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Sé þe ne blissað on neálǽcunge middan-geardes geendunge, Hml. Th. i. 612, 23. Add
wlátere
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A spectator Hæbbe ǽfre se láreów gearwe stemne tó bodunge, ꝥ hé mid his swigan ne gebylge þæs úplican wláte dóm (superni expectatoris iudicium), Chrd. 96, 24
bædling
An effeminate person ⬩ mollis
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On óðre stówe hit cwyð . . . sodomisce .vii. geár fæston. Gif se bædling mid bædlinge (mollis cum molli) hǽme, Ll. Th. ii. 228, 13-17. Bædling cariar, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 6. oððe bædlingas, Effeminati, molles 29, 7
an-sién
aspect ⬩ figure
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Ansién ðyses middan-geardes the figure of this world. Past. 51, 2
hege-ságol
A hedge-stake
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A hedge-stake Wearð his óðer fót be his scó fæst on ánum hegesáhle (on ánum ságle þæs geardes, v. l. in sude sepis), Gr. D. 24, 28
Linked entry: ságol
sticung
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a pricking, piercing Hié ( the elephants ) fóran wédende ǽgðer ge for ðæs flexes bryne ge for ðara nægla sticunge, Ors. 4, 1; Swt. 158, 8. sticking (pigs), killing; cf. stician, <b>I a </b>On manegum stent ðæt se gafolswán sylle ǽlce geáre
ebba
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On þís ylcan geáre wæs swa mycel ebba ǽghwǽr ánes dæges swá nán man ǽror gemunde, and swá ꝥ man férde rídende and gangende ofer Tæmese be-eástan þǽre brigge on Lunden, Chr. 1114; P. 244, 13. iii. ebban týne he must put three fences to correspond to the
ge-hendnys
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Add: in a local sense. nearness, neighbourhood Gif hwá feorran cóme and wolde his lác Gode offrian, dæt hé on gehendnysse ( at hand ) tó bicgenne gearu hæfde, Hml. Th. i. 406, 23.
ge-bind
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D. bind : 'A Bind of eels . . . consisted of ten sticks, and every stick of twenty-five eels') Man gelǽste ǽlce geáre . . . þreó gebind ǽles, Cht. Th. 328, 33
on-hón
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A. 171, 36.] to hang on a gallows or cross, to crucify On þǽm eahtateóþan geáre his ríces, þá Críst wæs áhangen (on-, v. l.) (cum Christus patibulo suffixus est), Ors. 6, 2; S. 256, 15. Ic gemétte þone cásere onhangen, Hml. A. 191, 286.
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ge-fægnian
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Heó þæs gefægnode ꝥ heó hæfde ealles þæs geáres bigleofan, Gr. D. 69, 13. with prep. Hé gefægnode for þæs feóndes deáþe, Gr. D. 120, 8
nép-flód
A neap-tide ⬩ a very low tide
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On ǽlcum ánum geáre weaxeþ ðæt flód ðæs sǽs feówer and twentigum síða, and swá oft wanaþ; fylleþflód biþ némned on lǽden malina, and se népflódledo, Shrn. 63, 31. [Cf. Eng. Gilds (E. E. T.
Linked entry: ap-flód
þreó-teóða
thirteenth
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On ðæm þreóteóðon geáre, Ors. 4, 10; Swt. 200, 33. Þrytteóðan, Homl. Skt. i. 6, 272
epistol
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Sealde hé mé ǽnne epistolan, Nar. 18, 28. uninflected Þú geare canst þæs eádegan Paules epistola þone hé wrát tó Timotheo, in þám hé hine týde, Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 61, 17
wǽpnung
Armour ⬩ arms
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Golias gearu tó ánwíge mid orméttre wǽpnunge, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 21. Iudas com mid ðám cwealmbǽrum mid ormǽtere wǽpnunge (with an immense amount of weapons), Homl. Ass. 74, 44: Homl. Th. ii. 302, 4
ge-tæl
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Rihtlícost bið geðúht þæt þæs geáres anginn sý gehæfd on þám dæge þe þæt Ebréisce folc heora geáres getel onginnað, Hml.
bisceop-þénung
The duty or office of a bishop ⬩ episcopi officium
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[þénung duty, office] The duty or office of a bishop; episcopi officium Þegnode se árwurþa bisceop Willferþ on ðám dǽlum ða bisceopþénunge árwurþlíce fif geár the venerable bishop Wilfrith exercised the office of a bishop in those parts honourably five
feówertyne
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Hí feówertiéne geár hit tótugon, Ors. 3, 11; S. 142, 23
ed-niwe
Anew, again ⬩ dēnuo
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Anew, again; dēnuo Swá se fugel weorþeþ gomel æfter geárum geong edniwe thus the bird becomes old after years and young again, Exon. 59 b; Th. 215, 25; Ph. 258