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streówness

(n.)
Grammar
streówness, e; f.
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Bedding, what is spread to lie on Ðá bǽdon hine his discipulos ðæt hié móstan húru sume streównesse him under gedón for his untrumnesse; ða cwæð hé: ' Bearn, ne bidde gé ðæs; ne gedafenaþ cristenan men ðæt hé elles dó, bútan swá hé efne on axan and on

wan-hoga

(n.)
Grammar
wan-hoga, an ; m.
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Ic ðíne weogas wanhogan lǽrde, ðæt hié árleáse eft gecerdan tó hiora sáula hiorde, Ps. C. 105. v. un-hoga, and following words

eahtung

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Ðurh ðá eahtunge ðe hié mon eahtige suae aestimationis dulcedine, Past. 147, 8. Add

eá-land

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Hié genámon Wihte eálond, 530; P. 16, 6. Add

efen-sárig

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D. 97, 16. equally sorry Þá wurdon hiora wíf sárige . . . hié woldon ꝥte þá óþere wíf wǽren emsárige him ( ut omnibus par ex simili conditione animus fieret ), Ors. 1, 10; S. 46, 3

seóþan

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Add Swá swá gold on ofne hé hié sýð and costað in fornace probatur aurum; tu, ut sorde careas, tribulationis camino purgaris, Verc. Först. 141, 21

wirsa

(adj.)
Grammar
wirsa, (wirra occurs once in the Chronicle); cpve.; wirrest, wirst; spve. adj.

Worse ⬩ worst

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Worse, worst, in a moral sense For hwam lifaþ se wyrsa leng? Salm. Kmbl. 716; Sal. 357. Ne wearð nán wærsa dǽd gedón ðonne ðeós wæs, Chr. 979; Erl. 129, 4. Gif wé ðæt ne dóþ, ðonne wyrce wé ús myccle synne; and ús is get wyrse ðæt wé úrne ceáp teóþian

Linked entries: wyrrest yfel weorr wersa wurst

lor

(n.)
Grammar
lor, es; n. (v. ðæt forlor, Past. Swt. 403, 13).

Loss ⬩ destruction

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Ðonne hié him ǽr tíde tó tióþ ðæt hí ne mágon, ðonne is him tó ondrǽdenne ðæt him weorþe tó lore ðæt hié tó ryhtre tíde gefolgian meahton, ðæt is se wisdóm, ðe hié ǽr tíde wilniaþ and eówiaþ, ac hé him wyrþ ðonne swíðe ryhtlíce tó lore admonendi ne, cum

Linked entries: los lyre

be-niman

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Buton hié hié þæs naman benáme, Ors. 2, 8; S. 94, 4. Benámon. 7. Ðone beniman (-neoman, v. l.) þǽre aldorlicnesse eum privare auctoritate. Bd. I, 27; S. 74, 8. Hé ðǽre hǽlo benumen wierð, Past. 251, 10: Wlfst. I. II: Chr. 919; P. 105, 32.

be-drífan

to drive game ⬩ to follow up a track

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Hié hié gefliémdon and hié bedrifon intó Rómebyrg, 3, 10; S. 138, 29. Wæs þæs folces mycel on fleám bedrifen, Chr. 1066; P. 196, 35. Biþ hé on écne weán bedrifen, Bl.

ymb-sittan

(v.)
Grammar
ymb-sittan, p. -sæt, pl. -sǽton ; pp. -seten.
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Hé besierede ðæt folc ðe hié ymbseten hæfden, 4, 5; Swt. 170, 2 : Ps. Th. 12 arg

Linked entry: emb-sittan

dígol-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
dígol-líce, díglíce.
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Hié in heora húsum deágollíce hié miþan inter tectorum suorum culmina delituerunt, 10, 18. Hié genáman deógollíce his líc, Bl. H. 191, 32. Hé wolde hí díglíce forlǽtan, Hml. Th. i. 196, 17.

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

hwæt-scipe

(n.)
Grammar
hwæt-scipe, es; m.

Quickness ⬩ boldness ⬩ bravery ⬩ valour

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Sinope tóeácan hiere hwætscipe and hiere monigfealdum duguþum hiere líf geendade on mægþháde Sinope singularem virtutis gloriam perpetua virginitate cumulavit, Swt. 46, 24

ge-líffæstan

Grammar
ge-líffæstan, <b>; I 2.</b>
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Add Hé hiene geliéffæsð, Past. 259, 12. Add Genim sumne dǽl þæs gelýffæstan blódes, Hml. S. 23 b, 623

hlæd

(n.)
Grammar
hlæd, es; n.

A heap, ⬩ pile, ⬩ mound

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A heap, pile, mound Beraþ hiere hlæd tó comportabis aggerem, Past. 21, 5; Swt. 161, 5; 163, 10, 11

Linked entry: hlæd-disc

be-helian

(v.)
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Ðæt hié hié gehýden and beheligen under ðǽm ryfte ðǽre leásunga, 239, 25. Behýd and behelod mid ðǽre eorþan, Bt. 15; F. 48, 25. Ðá triówa ðe ðé sindon opene, hí sindon git mid manegum óþrum behelede, 7, 2; F. 18, 4.

folc-gefeoht

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Philippuse geþúhte þæt hé leng mid folcgefeohtum wið hié ne mehte, ac he wæs mid hlóþum on hí hergende, 3, 7; S. 118, 18

for-leósan

to lose ⬩ to destroy

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Th. i. 294, 19. to destroy. physical Hié gesworen hæfdon ðæt hié óþer forleósan woldon, oþþe hira líf, oþþe þæs cyninges, Ors. 2, 3; S. 68, 28. spiritual, moral, &c. þurh áðbrycas forloren, Wlfst. 164, 8.

ge-sibsum

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Hié wǽron swá geþwǽre and swá gesibsume þæt hié ealle forgeáfon þǽm cásere þá fǽhðe, Ors. 6, 4; S. 258, 27. Gesibsume pacatos. Wrt.

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