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be-smiðian

(v.)
Grammar
be-smiðian, p. ode; pp. od; trans.

To forgeexcudere, fabricare, fabrefacere

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To forge, to make or work as a smith does; excudere, fabricare, fabrefacere Innan and útan íren-bendum searoþoncum besmiðod within and without, cunningly forged with iron bands, Beo. Th. 1554; B. 775

bile-hwítlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
bile-hwítlíce, adv.

Honestly, simplyhoneste, simpliciter

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Honestly, simply; honeste, simpliciter Andswarede Dryhthelm bilehwítlíce, forðon he wæs bylehwítre gleáwnesse and gemetfæstre gecynde man Drycthelme respondebat simpliciter, erat namque homo simplicis ingenii ac moderatæ naturæ, Bd. 5, 12; S. 631, 30

Linked entry: bylwet-líce

sídung

(n.)
Grammar
sídung, e ; f.
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An extension, augmentation Ymbe ðises bissextus gefyl*-*lednysse wé wyllaþ rúmlícor iungum cnihtum geopenian . . . ðæt hig syððan his sýdunge óðrum gecýðon . . . De augmentatione bissexti, ( then follows the promised account ), Anglia viii. 306, 16

þorfa

(adj.)
Grammar
þorfa, adj.
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Destitute, poor; used as a substantive, a needy person Of ðorfum de egenis, Jn. Skt. Lind. 12, 6. [Icel. þurfi or þurfa wanting, in need of. Cf. Goth. ga-þaurbs continens.] Cf. þearfa

Linked entry: þorfnian

un-druncen

(adj.)
Grammar
un-druncen, adj.

Not drunksober

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Not drunk, sober Hé suá micle bet his ágen dysig oncnéw suá hé undruncenra wæs he recognized his own folly so much better as he was more sober, Past. 40; Swt. 295, 8

un-æþellíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-æþellíce, adv.

Ignobly

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Ignobly Ic cúþe sumne bróþor ... wæs hé geseted on æþelum mynstre, ac hé unæþelíce his líf lifede novi fratrem ... positum in monasterio nobili, sed ipsum ignobiliter viventem, Bd. 5, 14; S. 634, 9

Linked entry: æþel-íce

un-scoren

(adj.)
Grammar
un-scoren, adj.

Unshornunshaven

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Hí lange tíd eodon ealle unscorene and sídfeaxe, Ap. Th. 6, 12

Linked entry: sceran

un-gescrépu

(n.)
Grammar
un-gescrépu, un-gescrépo; f. or un-gescrépe; n.

Inconveniencean inconvenient thing

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Inconvenience, an inconvenient thing Mid ðý ðá se foresprecena bróþor langre tíde ðyllíc ungescrǽpo woon (ðyllíce ungéscrǽpo wonn ?) cum tempore non pauco frater praefatus tali incommodo laboraret, Bd. 4, 32; S. 611, 22

corn-wurma

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Substitute: A scarlet dye, and add Cornuurma vr[r]miculus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 45. Conuurma coccus, An. Ox. 1064, note. Gor[n]wurman murice, 1064. Be cornwurman de muricibus, 1067. Cornwurmum, 5141

dengan

(v.)
Grammar
dengan, p. de
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To ding, beat, strike Ǽlcum gemete ne sceal árung beón þǽre gyltendan geogoðe, ac swíðor man sceal heora sídan mid gierdon gelómlíce dencgan ( sed potius eorum latera virgis assidue tundenda sunt ), Nap. 17

Linked entry: dencgan

ge-gyrdan

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Gegyrdeð (-, R.) hine praecingit se, Lk. L. 12, 37. Ðú waldes ðec gigyrde cingebas te, Jn. L. 21, 18. Gegyrded praecinctus, 13, 5. Luna beón gegyrd (cingi ), Lch. iii. 206, 19. Add

geolwian

(v.)
Grammar
geolwian, p. ode
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Þá geolewedan (gegeolewedan, An. Ox. 108) crocata, Hpt. Gl. 408, 57

Linked entry: giolu

glíw-cynn

(n.)
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a kind of music(?) On glywcú in tibiis (tibiis seems to have been taken in the sense of pipes, and to be explained as glýwcyn, a kind of music (?)), Ps. L. 146, 10. (?)

Linked entry: glywcum

meter

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Add: versification Meteres cræft metrica ars, Bd. 4, 2; Sch. 344, 18. Béda mid leóðlicum metre be þám mónðum þus giddode, Angl. viii. 301, 34. Swíþswégum metrum (-e?) heroico exametro, An. Ox. 1437

nirwan

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Add: to confine On díglum dimnessum tó nirewiende latibulis carceralibus artandum, An. Ox. 3145. to rebuke Ná neirwð (nirwed ?) hé non arguet, Ps. Rdr. 93, 10. Þú nyrwdest mann corripuisti hominem, 38, 12

rodor-lic

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Add Þú þe eart fram Gode gehálgod mid roderlicum wurðmynte te . . . quem Deus aethereo honore sacravit, Hml. Th. ii. 134, 11. Tó ðám roderlican (readorlicum, lxxv. 5) ad aetheria, Lch. i. lxxiii. 6

rúh

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Add Hrúhge wulla hirsutas lanas, An. Ox. 5189. Rhúge, 2, 429. Add Rúh wærihtnys callositas (quos dira cutis callosilas elephantino tabo deturpans, Ald. 49, 15), Hpt. Gl. 490, 36. v. healf-, un-rúh

seón

(v.)
Grammar
seón, to see.
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Add: 2 a. with an infinitive that has no subject Ic seah rǽpingas in ræced fergan, Rä. 53, 1. add: the imperative used exclamatorily Seh þé ecce (Lanc. sithee ), Ps. Vos. 7, 15

staþol-fæst

(adj.)
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Transfer last passage under to and add there: steady Cild bið cumlíðe, þancful, staðolfæst, Lch. iii. 192, 8. Staþolfæstes wífes stabilis mulieris, Scint. 226, 3. Staþelfæste tremmincge firmo (scripturarum) fulcimento, An. Ox. 1420

þreál

Grammar
þreál, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Ne áteóra þú for Drihtnes þreále (cf. deficias cum ab Domino corriperis, Prov. 3, ii), Hml. S. 33, 217. Add Hé gehét him Godes yrre and yfele þreála, Hml. S. 31, 803