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tǽl-lic

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Add: blameable, reprehensible Gif ǽnig bið gemét teállic si quisque repertus fuerit reprehensibilis, R. Ben. I. 9, 54, 7. Þǽr ma[n] wógerlice leóð and tǽllice singe ubi amatoria et turpia cantantur, Chrd. 78, 34

úp-áhafenness

Grammar
úp-áhafenness, <b>. I.</b>
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Swylce hit þolode þáre úpáhefenesse (úphefnesse, v.l.) ac si sublevatione caruisset, Gr. D. 249, 17. II (a). add :-- For þí þe [Dryhtnes] is úre úpáhafennys quia domini est assumptio nostra, Ps. L. 88, 19. Add

Hám-tún

(n.)
Grammar
Hám-tún, [or Ham-tún?]

Hampton, a common local name, used for both the present Northamptonand Southampton

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Hampton, a common local name, used for both the present Northampton, Chr. 917, Erl. 102, 12; and Southampton, Chr. 981; Erl. 129, 36: for other towns see the index to Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. vol. vi

Linked entry: Súþ-hámtún

hion

(n.)
Grammar
hion, e; f.

A bone of the head [?]

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Gif sió úterre hion gebrocen weorþeþ, L. Ethb. 36; Th. i. 12, 6, v. note, and cf. L. H. 93, 2; Th. i. 605, 12 si exterius os percussum sit

hóh-sinu

(n.)
Grammar
hóh-sinu, we; f.

Hough-sinew, ham-string, heel-sinew

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Hough-sinew, ham-string, heel-sinew Gif hóhsino forad síe if a heel-sinew be broken, L. M. 1, 71; Lchdm. ii. 146, 3. Heora horsa hóhsina ðú ofcirfst equos eorum subnervabis, Jos. 11, 6

Linked entry: seonu

frécend-lic

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Ǽgðer is swíðe frécendlic, ge ꝥ him hwá unmedomlíce onfoo, and eác ꝥ him hwá tó lange bútan , Ll. Th. ii. 440, 21. Uneáðe þá frécendlican nýdþearfnysse ádreógende, Hml. S. 23 b, 538. Add

Linked entry: fréced-lic

be-ceorian

(v.)

to murmur atcomplain of

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Substitute: to murmur at, complain of Gif hé hit mid múðe beceorað ore si murmuraverit, R. Ben. 21, 1. His ríce men hit mǽndon, and þá earme men hit beceorodan, Chr. 1086; P. 221, 13

windan

(v.)
Grammar
windan, p. wand, pl. wundon; pp. wunden

of motion that results from a blow, swing, or other impetus, to fly, leap, start to fly, wheel, springof the movement of living thingsof inanimate thingsof abstract subjectsof twistingrolling movementof living thingsof inanimate thingsto waverto twistrollto brandishwaveto twist, plait, weaveto twist, give a curved form to

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, of living things Hé wand swá swá wurm he writhed like a serpent, Homl.

Linked entry: winde

síþ

(n.)
Grammar
síþ, es ; m.
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C.) once, Bd. 4, 5 ; S. 572, 44. Hig férdon seofon síþon embe þa buruh, Jos. 6, 15 : Gen. 33, 3 : Lk. Skt. 17, 4. (2 a) used in multiplying numbers :-- Feówer síþon seofon beóþ eahta and twentig &amp;c., Anglia viii. 302, 47 sqq.

Linked entries: síþemest síþmæst

denu

(n.)
Grammar
denu, e; f : dene,an ; f : dene,es ; m.

A plain, vale, dale, valleyvallis, convallis

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Seó stów ðǽr seó denu wæs the place where the valley was, 5, 12; S. 630, note 3, MS. T. Ǽlc denu biþ gefylled omnis vallis implebĭtur, Lk. Bos. 3, 5.

Linked entries: dænu dene dene dene

wendan

(v.)
Grammar
wendan, p. -de

To turnTo cause to moveto change alterconvertto translateinterpretto move one's self take one's waygoproceedwendTo wendgoproceed

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For hwí hit swá went swá hit nú oft déþ why things go as now they often do Bt. 39, 2; Fox 212, 26. Ðá wende hé on scype ágén ascendens nauem reversus est Lk. Skt. 8, 37. Se here eft hámweard wende Chr. 895; Erl. 93, 25.

god-webb

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Linked entry: gode-webb

til

(adj.)
Grammar
til, adj.
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Ðæt hió ðære cwene oncweðan meahton swá tiles swá tráges, swá hió him tó sóhte, Elen. Kmbl. 649; El. 325. Tile and yfle the good and the evil (at the day of judgment), Cd. Th. 303, 10; Sat. 610.

Linked entries: ticlum til-líc

ǽrend-secg

(n.)
Grammar
ǽrend-secg, es; m.

An errand-deliverera messengerlegatusnuntius

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An errand-deliverer, a messenger; legatus, nuntius Ic, on his gearwan, geseó ðæt he is ǽrend-secg uncres Hearran I, by his habit, see that he is the messenger of our Lord, Cd. 30; Th. 41, 17; Gen. 658

be-lǽwan

(v.)
Grammar
be-lǽwan, p. -lǽwde; pp. -lǽwed; v. a.

To bewraybetraytradereprodere

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Heó hine belǽwde she betrayed him Jud. 16, 21. Ðæt Iohannes belǽwed wæs quod Ioannes traditus esset Mt. Bos. 4, 12

Linked entries: lǽwan be-lǽwing

freót-man

(n.)
Grammar
freót-man, -mann, es; m.

A freedmanlībertus

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-mannon] she gives her the men and the stock, except the freedmen, Cod. Dipl. 1290; A. D. 995; Kmbl. vi. 131, 10

luh

(n.)
Grammar
luh, (a borrowed word apparently, Welsh llwch; cf. pól and Welsh pwll]; n.

A lochlough

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Skt. Lind. 8, 13: Lk. Skt. Lind. 8, 22. Ofer luh ł lytel , Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 14, 22: Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 5, 1

gán

Grammar
gán, <b>;
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</b> add Gif hwá gǽð sittan æt wega gelǽtan si quis in biuiis residere temptauerit, Chrd. 61, 6. (2 a) add :-- Sleah þriwa on ... sió heáfodpanne gǽþ onriht sóua, Lch. ii. 342, 7

bóc-riht

(n.)
Grammar
bóc-riht, es; n.

BOOK-RIGHT, the right of a will or chartertestamenti rectitudo vel jus

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BOOK-RIGHT, the right of a will or charter; testamenti rectitudo vel jus Þegenes lagu is, ðæt he his bócrihtes wyrðe taini lex est, ut sit dignus rectitudine testamenti sui, L. R. S. 1; Th. i. 432, 1

scip-broc

(n.)
Grammar
scip-broc, es; n.
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Trouble, hardship, or labour when journeying in a ship Paulus him rehte hú myccle scipbrocu hé gebád on ðæm síþe St. Paul related to them the hardships he had undergone on his voyage to Rome, Blickl. Homl. 173, 6

Linked entry: bróc