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ge-hrepod

(v.)
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Z. 255, 3. to touch with the hand Gehrepa hire byrigene, and þú bist sóna hál, Hml.

GYRD

(n.)
Grammar
GYRD, gird, gerd, e; f.

A staffrodtwiga yard the fourth part of a hidevirgavirgata

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Fiórþe half gird three yards and a half, Lchdm. iii. 362, col. 2. Landes sumne dǽl ðæt is án gyrd a certain portion of land, that is the fourth part of a hide, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 260, 32: 263, 7.

Linked entries: gird geard

reáf

(n.)
Grammar
reáf, es; n.
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Heó cwæþ sóðlíce : Ic beó hál gyf ic hys reáfes æthríne, Mt. Kmbl. 9, 20-21. Tó hwí sint gé ymbhýdige be reáfe ? 6, 28. Twegen weras on hwítum reáfe in veste fulgenti, Lk. Skt. 24, 4.

smearcian

(v.)
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Swá se hálga wer þis gehýrde, þá smercode (hlóh, v. l.) hé swilce hé þæt spell forhogode quo audito vir sanctus dedignando subrisit, Gr. D. 29, 13. Ðá heó þis gehýrde, þá smearcode heó wið his weardes, Hml. S. 23 b, 590. Add

reócan

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Reócende halans (odorato thure fragrantior halans, Ald. 271, 15), An. Ox. 26, 66. Sume hús ná gehrán seó fýlnes þæs reócendan and stincendan mistes alia habitacula exurgens foetor e flumine minime tangebat, Gr. D. 319, 11.

CLIMBAN

(v.)
Grammar
CLIMBAN, ic climbe, ðú climst, he climþ, climbaþ; clamb, clumbon; clumben; v. a.

To CLIMBscandere, ascendere

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Clumben] upp to ðe hálge róde climbed up to the holy cross, Erl. 209, 6

Linked entry: climan

breátan

(v.)
Grammar
breátan, ic breáte, ðú breátest, brýtst, he breáteþ, brýt, pl. breátaþ; p. breót , pl. breóton; pp. breáten

To break, demolish, destroy, kill;frangere, conterere, necare

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To break, demolish, destroy, kill; frangere, conterere, necare Hí hálge cwelmdon, breóton [breotun MS.] bóccræftige [bóccræftge MS.] bærndon gecorene they slew the holy, destroyed the book-learned, burned the chosen, Exon. 66 a; Th. 243, 25; Jul. 16

Linked entries: breótun BREÓTAN

tó-dwínan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-dwínan, p. -dwán

To vanish awayto burst and vanish

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To vanish away, to burst and vanish Seó eádiga fǽmne hál fram him gewænte and eall sticmǽlum tóðwán (-dwán? but both þwíneþ and dwíneþ occur.

Linked entries: dwínan tó-þwínan

hleów

covershelterProtectiona protector

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Hé (Alfred) becóm tó Æðelingége, and on sumes swánes húse hid hleów gernde (desired the protection of the swineherd) and eác swylce him and his yfele wífe hérde, Shrn. 16, 13. in a personal sense, a protector: Wígendra hleó cwóm heaðoláces hál tó hofe

wrixendlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
wrixendlíce, adv.

In turnone after the other

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Ða wrixendlíce (vicissim) on twá halfe gesewene wæron, swá swá mid unmǽtnesse miceles stormes worpene beón, 5, 12; S. 627, 39. Wrixendlíce singillatim, Ps. Surt. 32. 15

áncor

Grammar
áncor, l. ancor,
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Án hálig ancer genam ǽnne deófol . . . Ðá cwæð se deófol tó ðám ancre, Wlfst. 214, 23-25. v. ancra, and next word

oflǽt-hláf

(n.)
Grammar
oflǽt-hláf, es; m.
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A loaf of the bread used for the Eucharist Þá genam hé mid him twégen oflǽthláfas on beágwisan ábacene (cf. þis is hálig hláf . . . geoffra þysne hláf Gode for mé æt þínre mæssan, 23-28) duas secum oblationum coronas detulit, Gr. D. 343, 15

pín-treów

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Wæs án píntreów wið ꝥ templ swíðe hálig geteald, Hml. S. 31, 390.

-dóm

(suffix)
Grammar
-dóm, es; m. as the termination of nouns is always masculine, and denotes

Dominion, power, authority, property, right, office, quality, state, conditionas Cyne-dóm a king's power, office, etc. a kingdom; freó-dóm freedom; hálig-dóm holiness; wís-dóm wis-dom; i.e. the state or condition of being free, holy, wise

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Dominion, power, authority, property, right, office, quality, state, condition; as Cyne-dóm a king's power, office, etc. a kingdom; freó-dóm freedom; hálig-dóm holiness; wís-dóm wis-dom; i.e. the state or condition of being free, holy, wise

ge-mǽlan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-mǽlan, p. de; pp. ed

To mark, stain

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To mark, stain Seó hálge stód ungewemde wlite næs hyre feax ne fel fýre gemǽled the saint stood with spotless aspect, neither her hair nor skin was marked by the fire, Exon. 74 a; Th. 278, 2; Jul. 591

Linked entry: mǽlan

undern-tíma

(n.)
Grammar
undern-tíma, an; m.

The third hour of the daynine o'clock A. M.

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And eft com se Hálga Gást on underntíman ofer ða apostolas, Btwk. 214, 26-30

portic

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Th. i. 508, 9-14. v. eást-, hálig-portic

stíþe

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Add Hí hæfdon ǽlce scíre on West-Sexum stíðe gemearcod mid bryne and mid hergunge, Chr. 1006; P. 137, 18. austerely, asceticly. v. stíþ; Þá gewunode se hálga wer manega geár on ðám ancerlífe swíðlíce stíðe, Hml. Th. 146, 7

wíf-lufu

(n.)
Grammar
wíf-lufu, an ; f.

Love for a woman

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Love for a woman Se hálga wer ðære wíflufan ( the love of Herod for Herodias ) wordum stýrde, unryhtre ǽ, Exon. Th. 260, 12; Jul. 296. Ingelde weallaþ wælníðas, and him wíflufan cólran weorðaþ, Beo. Th. 4137; B. 2065. Cf. wíf-myne

ge-metan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-metan, p. -mæt and -mette , pl. -mǽton; pp. -meten; v. trans.

to measure, measure back or againmetiri, remetirito measure by traversing or going overmetiri transeundo

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And. 47, 2. to measure by traversing or going over; metiri transeundo And his cwén mid him medo-stíg gemæt and his queen with him measured the mead way [way to the mead-hall], Beo. Th. 1852; B. 924