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dirne-gelegerscipe

(n.)
Grammar
dirne-gelegerscipe, es; m.
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Adultery, fornication In dernegilegerscipe ( adulterio ) ginumen, Jn. R. 8, 3. Fleás dernegilegerscipe fugite fornicationem, Rtl. 106, 34

Linked entry: geleger-scipe

dirne-leger

(n.)
Grammar
dirne-leger, es; n.
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Adultery, fornication For dernelegere ob fornicationem, Mt. L. 19, 9. Derneleger adulterium, Mk. L. 10, 11. Dernelegero adulteria, 7, 21

Linked entries: leger -leger

dirne-leger

(adj.)
Grammar
dirne-leger, adj.
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Adulterous Derneleger adultera, Mk. L. 8, 38. Dernel'e adulteri, Lk. L. 18, 11

dirne-legere

(adv.)
Grammar
dirne-legere, adv.
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Licentiously Dernelegere luxuriose, Lk. L. 15, 13

Linked entry: -legere

dirne-legerscipe

(n.)
Grammar
dirne-legerscipe, es; m.
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Adultery, fornication In dernelegerscip (ðerne-, v. 3) in adulterio, Jn. L. 8, 4

Linked entry: -leger-scipe

dirn-gewritu

(n.)
Grammar
dirn-gewritu, pl. n. The Apocrypha
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Dyrngewrita apocrifa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 6, 4

dirn-hǽmende

(adj.)
Grammar
dirn-hǽmende, adj. (ptcpl.)
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Fornicating, adulterous Dyrn*-*hǽmendra [in]cestarum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 24, 61

dirn-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
dirn-líce, adv.
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Secretly Hé hí on niht gemartirode swá hé dyrn*-*lícost mihte, Lch. iii. 424, 30

dirn-licgan

(v.)
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to fornicate, commit adultery Alle ðá dernliggað omnes qui fornicantur, Ps. Srt. 72, 27. Ꝥ ðú ne dernelice ne adulteris, Mk. L. R. 10, 19. Dyrnlicendra mecharum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 12

Linked entry: dirne-licgan

ge-dígan

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Add: to escape danger, (i) used absolutely Seó wiht (a steer), gif hió gedýgeð, dúna briceð, gif hé tóbirsteð, bindeð cwice cf. the Latin riddle: Si vixero, rumpere colles incipiam, vivos moriens aut alligo multos, Prehn, p. 212), Ra. 39, 6. with acc

hlæd-disc

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a dish containing various kinds of fruit. Dele '(?)', and add:

húsel-disc

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Add: See the passage Hml. Th. ii. 272, 19 (given under húsel; II.)

hlæd-disc

(n.)
Grammar
hlæd-disc, es; m.

A dish on which many things are heaped up [?]; ⬩ satura [MS. satira]

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A dish on which many things are heaped up [?]; satura [MS. satira], Ælfc. Gl. 30; Som. 61, 69; Wrt. Voc. 26, 66

bǽr-disc

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Add: Wrt. Voc. i. 82, 65

deóre

(adv.)
Grammar
deóre, dióre; adv.

Dearly, with great price ⬩ cāre, magno

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Dearly, with great price; cāre, magno Deóre he hit bohte vel sealde he bought or sold it dearly; care vendĭdit, Ælfc. Gl. 35; Som. 62, 84; Wrt. Voc. 28, 62. Dióre gecépte drihten Créca Troia burh the lord of the Greeks dearly bought the city of Troy,

Linked entry: dióre

dim-hofe

(n.)
Grammar
dim-hofe, dym-hofe, an; f.
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A lurking-place, hiding-place; latĭbŭlum, lātēbra He gesette þýstru dymhofan oððe dymnes oððe behýdednesse his pŏsuit tenĕbras latĭbŭlum suum, Ps. Lamb. 17, 12. Dimhofan latēbræ, Ælfc. Gr. 13; Som. 16, 21. Dimhofum latĭbŭlis, Mone B. 85. Gregorius on

Linked entries: dym-hefe hofe

dim-scúa

(n.)
Grammar
dim-scúa, an; m. [scúwa, scúa a shade, shadow]
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Dimness, darkness; tenēbræ Oft hira mód onwód under dimscúan deófles lárum their mind often went under darkness by the devil's lore, Andr. Kmbl. 281; An. 141

díc-weall

(n.)
Grammar
díc-weall, es; m.
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A ditch-wall Directe uersus occidentem usque la dichewalle; et sic per fossatum directe usque in riuulo de Tamyse, C. D. iii. 408, 10

dim-híw

(adj.)
Grammar
dim-híw, adj.
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Dark-coloured, gloomy Eal bið úpheofon sweart and gesworcen, deorc and dimhíw and dwolma sweart tristius coelum tenebris obducitur atris, Dóm. L. 106: Wlfst. 137, 9

dim-hús

(n.)
Grammar
dim-hús, es; n.
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A prison, dungeon Dimhúses lautumiae, i. carceris, An. Ox. 3774. Dimhús latibula (ergastuli ), 4993

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