Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

searu-cǽg

(n.)
Grammar
searu-cǽg, e; f.
Entry preview:

An insidious key Flánþracu feorh onleác searocǽgum gesóht ( of the insidious attacks of disease), Exon. Th. 170, 27; Gú. 1118

stán-carr

(n.)
Entry preview:

rock, stone Stáncarr heard petram durissimam, Rtl. 19, 21

Linked entry: carr

weorold-camp

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-camp, es; m.
Entry preview:

Worldly warfare Godes þeówas nágon mid wígge ne mid worldcampe tó faren[n]e, ac mid gástlícan wǽpnan campian wíð deófol, L. Ælfc. P. 51 ; Th. ii. 388, 4

wull-camb

(n.)
Grammar
wull-camb, es; m.

A wool-comb

Entry preview:

A wool-comb Hé sceal fela towtóla habban,... wulcamb, Anglia ix. 263, 13

Linked entry: camb

carl-fugol

(n.)
Grammar
carl-fugol, es; m.
Entry preview:

A male bird Nán man ne wát hweþer hit ( the Phenix) is þe carlfugol þe cwénfugol, E. S. viii. 479, 90

carl-mann

Entry preview:

Gif hwilc carlman hǽmde wið wimman hire unðances, Chr. 1086; P. 220, 17. Add

case-bill

(n.)
Grammar
case-bill, (cáser-?)
Entry preview:

a sceptre? Casebill clauam i. gestam̄ (for ? cáserbill gestamen; gestamen sceptrum, Migne: billus baculus, claua oblonga, ib.: so cáser-bill might be compared with cyne-gird), Germ. 394, 285

cǽg-bora

Entry preview:

Add: one who has charge of the keys of a jail, jailor Cǽgbora clavicularius. Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 45: ii. 17, 11. Sc̃s Heremus wæs cǽgbora in Róme, Shrn. 121, 23. [Cf. N. E. D. key-bearer.] Cf. cǽg-hirde

cǽg-loca

Entry preview:

Dele: 'The action . . . key-locking.' The cǽglocan in the passage are the repositories which the wife could lock up with keys (v. cǽg supra); if the stolen property were not put into these, the keys of which were in her keeping, she was to be held guiltless

camp-lic

(adj.)
Grammar
camp-lic, adj.
Entry preview:

Military Camplic meniu a body of soldiers, Hml. S. 31, 1237. Camplicere mihte tribunicae potestatis, An. Ox. 11, 156: 12, 9. Réþe, camplice tyrannici (militonum commanipulares), 858

camp-weorud

Grammar
camp-weorud, (-od), -wered.
Entry preview:

Ðæt compweorod (-uearod, L.) cohors , Jn. R. 18, 12. Þæs hiofoncundan compwerodes caelestis militiae, Lch. i. lxviii, 5. Ymbseald mid þon heofonlican campweorode, Bl. H. 11, 24. Add

camp-wísa

(n.)
Grammar
camp-wísa, an; m.
Entry preview:

A superintendent of public games; agonotheta, Hpt. Gl. 405, 4

ge-camp

(n.)
Grammar
ge-camp, n. (not m.).
Entry preview:

Add Gecampe bello, Wülck. Gl. 248, 13. warfare, battle. literal Cempa þe on nánum gecampe náht ðegenlices ne gefremode, Hml. Th. i. 342, 5. Iulianus wolde neádian preóstas tó woruldlicum gecampe, Hml. S. 25, 834. fig. spiritual warfare Hí sceolon mid

ge-canc

Entry preview:

For 'Som. ... 510' substitute Gecance ludibrio, i. uituperatione, An. Ox. 1473. Mid gecance gannitura, 4504

hors-camb

Entry preview:

Hé sceal habban horscamb and sceára, Angl. ix. 263, 8. Add

weorold-camp

Entry preview:

-Gif hwilc preósthádes manna hine gebeóde silfne tó woroldcampe (militię seculari), Chrd. 97, 8. Add

cǽg-bora

(n.)
Grammar
cǽg-bora, an; m.
Entry preview:

A key-bearer; claviger, Ælfc. Gr. 8; Som. 7, 19

cæg-loca

(n.)
Grammar
cæg-loca, an; m.
Entry preview:

The action of locking up, a key-locking, any repository locked up; clavis et loculamentum Búton hit under ðæs wífes cǽglocan [cǽglocum MS. A.] gebroht wǽre, sý heó clǽne, ac ðæra cǽgean heó scéal weardian; ðæt is, hire hordern, and hire cyste, and hire

cæn-ryn

(n.)
Grammar
cæn-ryn, es; n.
Entry preview:

A generation, Ps. Spl. 47, 12

calc-rond

(adj.)
Grammar
calc-rond, adj.
Entry preview:

Round of hoof; calceis vel soleis ferreis marginatus Calcrondes, Exon. 91a; Th. 342, 15; Gn. Ex. 143