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CRÆFT

(n.)
Grammar
CRÆFT, es; m.

powermightstrength as of body or externals visroburpotentiaan artskillCRAFTtradework arsperitiaartificiumoccupatioopuscraft of mind, cunning, knowledge, science, talent, ability, faculty, excellence, virtue astutia, machinatio, scientia, facultas, præstantia, virtusa CRAFTany kind of ship navis qualiscunque

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He his dryhtne hýrde þurh dýrne cræftas he obeyed his lord through secret powers Salm.

byrgea

(n.)
Grammar
byrgea, byrigea, byriga, berigea, an; m. [borh, borg a pledge, security]
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H. E. 8; Th. i. 30, 12. Gif he byrigan forwærne if he retuse surety, 9, 10; Th. i. 30, 15, 17. Him man wilsumne berigean geselle [MS. gefelle] let a man give him a sufficient surety, 6; Th. i. 30, 5

hýðan

(v.)
Grammar
hýðan, p. de

To despoilplunderlay wastepillageravage

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Hit feor and wíde hýððe and hergode longe lateque devastans, Bd. 3, 16; S. 542, 17. Cwæþ ðæt mid his gesíðum wolde hýðan eal heofona ríce said that with his comrades he would ravage all the kingdom of heaven, Salm. Kmbl. 909; Sal. 454.

Linked entry: hýð-scip

ídel

(n.)
Grammar
ídel, es; n.

Idlenessvanityfutilityfrivolity

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Nys eác mid ídele tó forlǽtenne ðæt wundor ðæt þurh wítedómes cræft wiste nor is the miracle, that he knew things by prophetic power, to be lightly dismissed, Guthl. 17; Gdwin. 70, 2 [cf. 76, 10]. Ða ídlo vanitates, Rtl. 162. 32

leccan

(v.)
Grammar
leccan, p. lehte, leohte

To moistenwet

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Sumu twigu lehte mid wætere some twigs he watered, Past. 40, 3; Swt. 293, 7. His eágospind mid teárum leohte wetted his cheeks with tears, Guthl. 20; Gdwin 82, 4. Leohte ðæt líðe land lago yrnende, Cd. 12; Th. 13, 30; Gen. 210.

Linked entry: leohte

gomel

(adj.)
Grammar
gomel, gomol, gamel, gamol; adj.
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He on him gyrdeþ gomelra láfe he girds on him the relic of the ancients. 4079; B. 2036. Forbærst sweord Beówulfes, gomol and grǽgmǽl Beowulf's sword burst asunder, ancient and grey-marked, 5357; B. 2682.

Linked entries: gomol gamel gamol

searwian

(v.)
Grammar
searwian, p. ode
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cwæð him tó særwigendum móde ( insidiously ), Homl. Th. ii. 308, 6. v. sirwan and next word

ge-dihtan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-dihtan, p. -dihte; pp. -dihted, -diht.

to put in orderdisposecomposearrangeconspiredisponerecomponereconspirareto orderdirectappointdirigeredictare

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Gediht digestus, ordinatus, Hpt. Gl. 409. to order, direct, appoint; dirigere, dictare Híg dydon swá, swá swá him gedihte Iosue they did as Joshua directed them, Josh. 6, 23.

wiþer-coren

(adj.)
Grammar
wiþer-coren, adj. (ptcpl. ).

reprobatewickedrejectedreprobate

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reprobate, wicked Elles wiðercoren is, líchamlícere wrace sig underþeód sin autem improbus est, vindicte corporali subdatur, R. Ben. Interl. 56, 2.

Linked entry: wiþ-coren

æx

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Treów wyrðe scearpre æxe, Hml. Th. ii. 408, 16. Slóh hine án heora mid ánre æxe ýre, Chr. 1012; P. 142, 24. Mon ne gehiérde æhxe (æxe, Hatt. MS.) hlem, Past. 252, 17. Se ðunor hit ðrysceð mid ðǽre fýrenan æcxe, Salm. K. 148, 6.

efen-þeówa

Grammar
efen-þeówa, -þeów.
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Ðǽm hláforde is tó cýðanne ðæt ongiete ðæt is efnðeów his ðeówe ut cognoscant se conservos esse servorum, Past. 301, 20. Uncer efen*-*þeów wæs forworden, Hml. A. 207, 393. Ǽnne æfnþára his . . . se his efnþeúw . . .

fæder-lic

ancestrallineal

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æteówde fæderlice lufe, Hml. Th. i. 392, 16

ge-bild

(v.; adj.)
Grammar
ge-bild, adj.
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Eðilwald ðis bóc úta giðrýde and gibelde (-bélde, MS.) suá uel cúðæ, Jn. p. 188, 3

Pater-noster

(n.)
Grammar
Pater-noster, m. n.
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Ǽlc crísten man sceal cunnan ǽgðer ge his Paternoster ge his Crédan. Mid þám Paternostre sceal hine gebiddan . . . Wé habbað gesǽd embe þæt Paternoster, Hml. Th. i. 274, 19-22: ii. 604, 15-16: Hml. S. 12, 261: Wlfst. 33, 2.

sácerd-hád

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geseah ꝥ geongran men sácerdhád underféngon (wǽron gesette on hálgum sácerdhádum, v. l. in sacris ordinibus positi ) . . . and eóde baldlíce tó þám hálgan sácerdhád, Gr. D. 135, 7-31. Sácer(d)hádas flamina, An. Ox. 2, 56. Cf. preóst-hád. Add

æg

Grammar
æg, l.
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Nó ðonne bútan med-mycelne dǽl hláfes and án henne ǽg mid lytle meolc wætere gemengedre onféng, Bd. 3, 23; S. 554, 33. Þreó ǽgero, Shrn. 135, 18. Gif hit festendæg sié selle mon fisces and butran and aegera ðaet mon begeotan maege, C.

BRÓGA

(n.)
Grammar
BRÓGA, an; m.

A prodigy, monster, trembling, fear, terror, horror, dreadmonstrum, tremor, terror, horror

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Hine se bróga angeat terror laid hold of him, Beo. Th. 2587; B. 1291. Ne con he ðæs brógan dǽl he knoweth not a portion of the terror, Exon. 117 a; Th. 449, 15; Dóm. 71.

Linked entry: brégd

hǽðen-gild

(n.)
Grammar
hǽðen-gild, -gield, -gyld, es; n.

Heathen worship, idolatryidol

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bæd hig georne ðæt hig búgan ne sceoldon fram Godes bigengum tó ðam bysmorfullum hǽðengilde he prayed them earnestly not to turn from the worship of God to degrading idolatry, Jos. 23, 7.

of-feallan

(v.)

to fall upon, kill by falling, destroy

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Sigferþ cyning hine offeóll and his líc ligþ æt Wimburnan King Sigferth laid violent hands on himself, and his body lies buried at Wimborne, Chr. 962; Erl. 120, 4.

trem

(n.)
Grammar
trem, trym

a step

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Hpt. Gl. 477, 78, where the gloss for the same passage is fægre; fægre oððe fótmǽlum gradatim, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 47; fótmélum pedetemptim, Txts. 90, 834; siæpmǽlum gradatim. Hpt Gl. 497, 54.