Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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esul

(n.)

an ass

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an ass, Som. Ben. Lye

síman

(v.)
Grammar
síman, p. de
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Hig sýmdon hira assan oneratis asinis, Gen. 44, 13. Sýmaþ eówre assan, 45, 17

Linked entries: séman sýman

æsul

(n.)
Grammar
æsul, es; m.

An ass ⬩ asinus

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An ass; asinus, Mt. Rush. Kmbl. 21, 2

un-tígan

(v.)
Grammar
un-tígan, p. de

To untie ⬩ unbind ⬩ loose

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Ne untígð ( soluit ) eówer ǽlc on restedæge his oxan oððe assan fram ðære binne? Lk. Skt. 13, 15. Gyt gemétaþ assan folan getíged ... untígaþ hyne. Gif inc hwá áhsaþ hwí gyt hyne untígeaþ ...

þrítig-feald

(num.; adj.)
Grammar
þrítig-feald, adj.

Thirty-fold

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Ass. 21, 175: Mt. Kmbl. 13, 8. Þrítigfealdne, Mk. Skt. 4, 20. Ða habbaþ þrittigfealde méde, Homl. Ass. 21, 179

healf

(adv.)
Grammar
healf, adv.

Half

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Half Healf man and healf hors centaurus vel ippocentaurus, healf mann and healf assa onocentaurus, Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 39, 40.

un-seald

(adj.)
Grammar
un-seald, adj.

Ungiven

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Ass. 131, 495

egþ-wirf

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A young ass (weorf, q,v.) used for harrowing(?)

esul-cweorn

(n.)
Grammar
esul-cweorn, e; f.

A mill-stone turned by an ass ⬩ mŏla asĭnāria

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A mill-stone turned by an ass; mŏla asĭnāria, Cot. 16

swícend

(n.)
Grammar
swícend, es; m.
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Ass. 196, 39: 197, 87

un-gehealdsumlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-gehealdsumlíce, adv.

Incontinently

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Ass. 20, 159

Linked entry: ge-healdsumlíce

þingestre

(n.)
Grammar
þingestre, an; f.
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Ass. 137, 698

wæter-leást

(n.)
Grammar
wæter-leást, e; f.

Want of water

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Ass. 108, 177

un-wæstmberendness

(n.)
Grammar
un-wæstmberendness, e; f.

Barrenness ⬩ sterility

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Ass. 126, 329

Linked entry: wæstmberendness

un-wemness

(n.)
Grammar
un-wemness, e; f.

Purity

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Ass. 207, 422

wóplíce

(adv.)
Grammar
wóplíce, adv.

Mournfully ⬩ with lamentations

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Ass. 77, 124

be-frinan

(v.)
Grammar
be-frinan, -frynan; p. -fran, pl. -frunon; pp. -frunen [be, frinan to ask]

To ask ⬩ inquire ⬩ learn ⬩ interrogare ⬩ sciscitari ⬩ discere

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To ask, inquire, learn; interrogare, sciscitari, discere Ic befrine sciscitor Ælfc. Gr. 25; Som. 27, 4. Herodes befran hí Herodes didicit ab eis Mt. Bos. 2, 7

un-gesǽliglíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-gesǽliglíce, adv.

unhappily ⬩ miserably ⬩ wickedly

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Ass. 158, 564. Hé him seluan éce hellewíte ungesǽliglíce getilaþ, Chart. Th, 117, 23. wickedly. Similar entries v. un-gesǽllíce Swá ungesǽliglíce Iudas ðam láreówe deáð sǽtade, swá him eall his líf tó ungesǽlðum wearð, Homl. Ass. 161, 225

Linked entry: ge-sǽliglíce

æsc-þrote

(n.)
Grammar
æsc-þrote, an; f: -þrotu, e; f. [æsc ash, þrote a throat]

ASH-THROAT ⬩ vervain ⬩ verbenaca ⬩ verbena officinalis

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ASH-THROAT, vervain; verbenaca, verbena officinalis, Prior, p. 242: vocabularies give the Lat. feiula the fennel-giant, but verbenaca vervain seems more probable from the following quotations, — Herba uermenaca [ = verbenaca. Herb. 4, = verbenaca: Lat

Linked entries: asc-þrotu berbéna

un-tígan

(v.)
Entry preview:

The Latin original for Lch. iii. 198, 12 is: Asinos clamantes aut solutos currere, so that assan is plural, and for untíende untíede, not unti[g]edne. is to be suggested

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