Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

ge-les

Entry preview:

Hé barn in gelise ( studio ) ǽwfæstes lífes, 4, 27; Sch. 511, 11. Tó ǽfestnesse geliese, 5, 7; Sch. 585, 1. Gesǽligum gelesum ábysegad studiis occupatus felicibus, 5, 19; Sch. 660, 21.

ge-werian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-werian, to defend.
Entry preview:

Suíðe deóp pól wǽre gewered, 279, 15. to defend at law, disprove claims made in court upon property v. werian ; <b>III b</b> Qui terram lite tutam praestiterit, eandem possidetor.

ge-witscipe

Entry preview:

Cf. ge-wita; the condition of being witness of a transaction Sculun of Gallia ríce cuman þá þe æt bysceopes hálgunge on gewitscype standan ( qui in ordinatione episcopi testes adsistant ), Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 73, 9. witness, personal observation, presence

Linked entry: wit-scipe

hand-lín

Entry preview:

[Take here the two instances given in the Dictionary.] Ðonne þú handlín habban wille, ðonne stríc þú mid þínre swýðran handa eclinga ofer þíne wynstran, Tech, ii. 120, 1

heáfod-hrægel

(n.)
Grammar
heáfod-hrægel, es; n.
Entry preview:

The word glosses oraria in the verses which tell the medicinal virtues of St. Cuthbert's clothing, 'tegmina corporis almi', 'veneranda vestis'. One whose eyes were affected 'sancti accipiens oraria vatis' was cured. v. Nap. 36.

gorettan

(v.)
Grammar
gorettan, p. te.
Entry preview:

To stare about. of persons, to let the eyes rove Ðæt hine lǽrð se deófol, þæt hé stande and gorette and lócige underbæc út; þæt bið gymeleás gebed, Wlfst. 234, 18. of the eyes or looking, to rove Þǽr ( in hell ) wépað ðá eágan þe nú ðurh unálýfedlice

Linked entry: gorian

hæfern

(n.)
Entry preview:

Substitute : hæfern (hæf sea, ærn (ræn-), ern house), <b>hræfn</b> (q. v. in Dict. ), es; m. A crab, crab-shell (?) Haebrn, hafaern cancer, Txts. 47, 379. Hefern (nefern, MS. ), 108, 1106.

hleów

covershelterProtectiona protector

Entry preview:

Hé (Alfred) becóm tó Æðelingége, and on sumes swánes húse hid hleów gernde (desired the protection of the swineherd) and eác swylce him and his yfele wífe hérde, Shrn. 16, 13. in a personal sense, a protector: Wígendra hleó cwóm heaðoláces hál tó hofe

heorþ

a hearthfire place

Entry preview:

Brǽdingce on heorþum tó móse assaturam (alimentorum) in focularibus (praeparatam) ad edulium, An. Ox. 376: Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 30. as typical of the household or home Án mylen . . . and .vii. heorðas bútan ðon, and þreó cyrcan, C. D. v 316, 2

Indisc

Entry preview:

Th. ii. 484, 6. on Indisc in Indian language Þá wǽron wunderlicum nomum on Indisc gecéged Indica lingua erant uocitate, Nar. 26, 11

hymele

Entry preview:

. ¶ in local names :-- Hymelbróc, C. D. iii. 443, 22 : Hymel-mór, 206, 32 (Ymel-, 26.): Hymel-tún, 259, 29

neáh-west

Grammar
neáh-west, <b>. I.</b>
Entry preview:

Add Anastasius wæs geþeóded tó Nonnoso, sé wæs práfost on ðám mynstre þe geseted is in þám munte Soracte, and hé him þeódde tó fore þǽre stówe neáwiste (propinquitate loci), Gr. D. 48, 26.

swégan

Grammar
swégan, <b>. I b</b> 1.
Entry preview:

</b> where the words of a passage are given, to be expressed in such and such words :-- ꝥ sárlice leóð þe þús swégð on þám sealme, 'Transivi et ecce non erat (Ps. 37, 35),' Angl. viii. 332, 38

synderlíce

(adv.)
Entry preview:

D. 189, 12. in the last passage, Boutr. Scrd. 19, 18, synderlíce translates singulariter, v. Angl. vii. 21, 3. Add Cweþon twégen sealmas, ánne for cinge sinderlíce (specialiter), óþerne for cincg and cwéne and híredmannum, Angl. xiii. 381, 222.

wyrt

Grammar
wyrt, <b>. I.</b>
Entry preview:

Cum in nutriendis oleribus peritus esset, audivit, 180, 23-26. v. lǽce-, spere-, wealh-, wyn-, wyrm-wyrt. Add

for

Entry preview:

</b> (15) in respect to, as far as regards Ic ondette ealles mínes líchaman synna, for fel and for flǽsc ... and for ǽghwæt huesces oþþe heardes, Ll. Th. ii. 264, 3-7: Angl. xi. 98, 46-99, 55. (16) marking extent(?)

reðe

(adj.)
Grammar
reðe, ;adj.;

Right, just

Entry preview:

Mé ðín se góda gást lǽdde ðæt ic on rihtne weg reðne férde ; spiritus tuus bonus deducet me in viam rectam,; Ps. Th. 142, 11. Ic on wísne weg worda ðínra, reðne rinne, 118, 32.

Linked entries: rede reðe-hygdig

réwet

(n.)
Grammar
réwet, réwett, es; m. n. (?)

Rowinga shipnavigium

Entry preview:

On réwette swincende laborantes in remigando, Mk. Skt. 6, 48. Hí wǽron on réwute, Homl. Th. i. 162, 10. On ðǽre sǽ swuncon on nihtlícum réwette, ii. 384, 25.

Linked entry: rówet

sǽtere

(n.)
Grammar
sǽtere, es; m.

a robber latroinsidiator, seductor

Entry preview:

One that lies in wait, one that waylays. a robber; latro Þeáf and séttere fur et latro, Jn. Skt. Lind. 10, 1.

Linked entry: sétere

weámódness

(n.)
Grammar
weámódness, e; f.

Anger, passionateness, irascibility

Entry preview:

Ðonne hié berǽsaþ on suelce weámódnesse hié sindon tó oferbúganne qui in eodem furoris impetu declinandi sunt, Past. 40; Swt. 295, 20. Forlýst se yrsigenda wer his ágene sáwle þurh weámódnysse, Homl. Skt. ii. 28, 149: Anglia xi. 113, 32, 38.