port-geráfa
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Portreeves of London, Canterbury, Bodmin, and Bath are mentioned in the charters, and from the Laws (v. under port, II) it is seen that one of the duties of such officials was to witness all transactions by bargain and d]
stefna
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The prow or stern of a vessel Æt lides stefnan, Andr. Kmbl. 806; An. 403: 3411; An. 1709. Æt nacan stefnan, Exon. 306, 14; Seef. 7. Sum wǽg stefnan steóreþ, 296, 20; Crä. 54. Steóran ofer stæfnan, Andr. Kmbl. 989; An. 495. v. -stefn, and next word
strica
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a stroke of a pen, a tittle, a mark, line Ánatrica oððe án stæf ðære ealdan ǽ ne biþ forgǽged iota unum aut unus apex non praeteribit (Mt. 5, 18), Homl. Th. ii. 200, 1: Jud. 15. Strican ł mærcunge characteres Hpt. Gl. 473, 13.
éd-
a funeral pile
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a funeral pile
sumer-selde
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f A summer-house Selde proaula, i. domus coram aula, sumerselde zetas aestivales, Wrt. Voc. i. 57. 47. [Cf. Icel. sumarsetr a summer abode.]
freme
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Take the passages under fremu
ge-hlíta
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m, A consort, fellow For gehlýtum ðínum prae consortibus tuis Ps. Spl. C. 44, 9. Cf. efen-hlíte, ge-hlytta
hyse-byrþre
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One who bears a (male) child Ácende hyse-berþre þæne þe (Gabriel) foresǽde enixa rat puerpera quern Gabriel praedixit, Hy. S. 50, 34
Linked entry: byrþre
un-áræfedlic
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Intolerable Be ðám tintregum unáræfedlicum (intolerabilibus), Bd. 5, 12 ; Sch. 617, 12
Linked entry: á-ræfedlic
un-geeahtedlic
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Incalculable, extraordinary Mid ungeehted-licre ændebyrdnesse inaestimabili ordine, Gr. D. 248, 20
Linked entries: ge-eahtedlic ge-eahtian
niht-buttorfleóge
An insect that flies at night ⬩ blatta
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An insect that flies at night; blatta, Wrt. Voc. i. 23, 65
nunn-scrúd
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read an
ge-síþa
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An. Ox. 4283. a comrade in arms Gesíþan manipulares (i. socii) (coelestis militiae), An. Ox. 4732. an attendant, v. gesíþ ; <b>II. IV.</b> a follower, retainer Þegn, gesíþa cliens, i. socius, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 70
tún-geréfa
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Ðá onféng hí se túngeréfa intraverunt hospitium cujusdan villici, petieruntque ab to, ut transmitterentur ad satrapam qui super eum erat . . . Suscepit eos villicus, Bd. 5, 10; S. 624, 19-28.
wara
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In composition both -waran and -ware occur (cf. Seaxe and Seaxan), and also -waras, v. Sigel-waras. The forms are united with common nouns, v. burh-, ceaster-, eorþ-, hell-, heofon-waran, -ware; or with proper names, native or foreign, e. g.
Linked entry: -waru
Candel-mæsse
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CANDLEMAS, the mass at the feast of purification which, in the Romish church, is celebrated with many lighted candles; festum purificationis beatæ Mariæ Æt Candelmæssan at Candlemas, L. Eth. ix. 12 ; Th. i. 342, 32. Hér, A.
tygele
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A lamprey Tigle murenula (the word occurs in a list of the names of fishes; murenula is elsewhere glossed by ǽl, 66, 5: 281, 66; sǽ-ǽl, q.v.), Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 66. Cf. (?) preceding word
Linked entry: tigle
ticia
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A tick (an insect infesting animals) Ticia ricinus, Txts. 109, 1130
mete-cleofa
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A pantry Met[e]clyf[a] cellarium, An. Ox. 56, 270
hangelle
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An implement that hangs, Rä. 45, 6