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beót-líce

(adv.)

threateningly ⬩ boast-ingly ⬩ vauntingly ⬩ arrogantly

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Bóceras beótlíce habbað dǽlas . . . þæs ðe hig gylpað gelóme, Angl. viii. 317, 27

be-stǽlan

(v.)
Grammar
be-stǽlan, p. de
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To lay a charge of crime on a person, to convict a person (on with dat. ) of crime þæt mé nǽfre deófel náht on ne mæge bestǽlan æt mínum endedæge, Angl. xi. 101, 53. þæt se deófol eów náge náht on tó bestélenne ungeandettes, Wlfst. 135, 31.

Linked entry: stǽlan

búc

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, bléda, mélas, cuppan, Angl. ix. 264, 17. glossing buccula ( = a cheek?, or the beaver of a helmet?, or the boss of a shield?; from the bulging shape) Buuc buccula, Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 32. Búc, 126, 64. Búcc, 11. 41.

býtlian

(v.)
Grammar
býtlian, l. bytlian,
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Th. i. 432, 15: Angl. ix. 261, 10. Cf. botl, ge-bytlu

deópnes

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III. cunning, subtlety :-- þára geréfena unriht and reáflác and deópnessa and wóge dómas and prættas, Wlfst. 245, 2 : Angl. viii. 336, 40

gengan

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Novƀ and Decƀ mid seofon rihtingum glædlíce gengað, Angl. viii. 302, 8. Man gengde geond eall ábútan þone portweall, Hml. S. 23, 267. For him Jordanen gengde on hinder Jordanis conversus est retrorsum, Ps. Th. 113, 3.

grep

(n.)
Grammar
grep, a furrow.
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Á hé mæcg findan hwæt hé mæcg on byrig bétan ... grép hegian, dícsceard bétan, Angl. ix. 262, 19

ceole

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Angl. viii. 451), Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 49. a channel, gorge (?) On ciolan weg ... on ceolan ford, C. D. iii. 213, 2, 5. Tó ceolan heáfdan; of ceolon heáfdon, 462, 21. Ceolan hyrst, ii. 216, 5

cipp

(n.)
Grammar
cipp, es; n.? Substitute: <b>cipp,</b> es; m.
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Voc. i. 15, 7. a weaver's beam Hé sceal habban . . . wulcamb, cip, Angl. ix. 263, 13

niþer

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Angl. i. 509) ágeát aquam effudi, Nar. 8, 10. Betwix deádum mannum bið þín earding-stów niðer on eorðan, 50, 28. Wearþ hine niðer on þæt nióbedd, Gen. 343. Niðer under næssas, Sat. 31. Sé sceal heán wesan niðer gebíged, Mód. 55.

sprengan

Grammar
sprengan, <b>II a.</b>
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Se abbud bletsige þá candela and sprenge (conspergat) mid wætere gebletsedum, Angl. xiii. 403, 547. <b>II b.</b> add :-- 'Gang hrædlíce and spreng (stregd, v. l.) þis wæter ofer þæs licgendan líchaman'. . .

ymb-gang

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Add Gif hí embegang ná dón si processionem non egerunt , Angl. xiii. 404, 554.

á-solcennys

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Synna on ásolcennyssa, Angl. xi. 102, 83. Ásolcennesse tepore, xiii. 38, 319. Add

ymb-hlennan

(v.)
Grammar
ymb-hlennan, pp. ed
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Emhlæned circumseptus, Anglia xiii. 27, 5

Linked entry: hlennan

rím-cræftig

(adj.)
Grammar
rím-cræftig, adj.

Skilful in computation

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Skilful in computation Tó þám rihtungum ðe rímcræftige preóstas cweþaþ lunares, Anglia viii. 300, 27. On ðám eahta geárum ðe rímcræftige weras on Grécisc hátaþ ocdoade, 315, 23 : 327, 34-36. Rýmcræftige Menol. Fox 89; Men. 44

hyrst

(n.)
Grammar
hyrst, es; m.

A hurst ⬩ copse ⬩ wood

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Kmbl. iii. xxxii, and Leo's Anglo-Saxon Names. p. 107 In hyrst sciofingden, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. i. 273, 6.

ge-rím

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Seó forme ábécédé on þám geríme ys bútan pricon, Angl. viii. 322, 42. Forgif mé ꝥ ic móte on þám gerýme beón þe ðú þá fore gebǽdæ, Angl. xii. 508,10. a period of a certain number of days (?)

BEÓR

(n.)
Grammar
BEÓR, es; m.

BEER ⬩ nourishing or strong drink ⬩ cerevisia ⬩ sicera ⬩ a beverage made of honey and water ⬩ mead ⬩ metheglin ⬩ hydromeli ⬩ ĭtis ⬩ ydromellum ⬩ mulsum

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Beer, made from malted barley, was the favourite drink of the Anglo-Saxons.

Linked entry: biór

tó-gang

(n.)
Grammar
tó-gang, es; m.

Access, ⬩ approach

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Sý getýþod gebróþrum tógang fýres concedatur fratribus accessus ignis, Anglia xiii. 307, 457. Nánne hæfþ tógang heortan onbryrdnyss nidlum habebit accessum cordis compunctio, Sciut. 173, 5

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Ǽr he [Ercol] ongan mid Creáca scypum, ðe mon dulmúnus hǽt, ðe man segþ ðæt in scip mǽge in þúsend manna before he [Hercules] began with Grecian ships, which are called dulmunus, of which it is said that one ship can hold a thousand men, Ors. 1, 10; Bos

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