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be-swemman

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To wash an animal by sending it into the water þeáh swín beswemde weorðen, þonne sleáð hí eft on ðá solu and bewealwiað hí þǽron (sus lota reversa in volutabro luti). Add:

húsel-fæt

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Add: — Nelle wé ꝥ in cyrcean mon ǽnig þing inne healde, bútan þá þe tó þǽre cyrcean frætwum belympað, ꝥ is hálige béc, and húselfata, and mæssereáf . . . Ll. Th. ii. 406, 33

deáþ-cwalu

(n.)
Grammar
deáþ-cwalu, e; f.

A deadly pain or plague, agony mortis dolor

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A deadly pain or plague, agony; mortis dolor Sió wérge sceólu hreósan sceolde in wíta forwyrd, ðǽr hie in wylme nú dreógaþ deáþcwale the wretched crew were compelled to fall into the ruin of punishment, where they now suffer deadly pains in flame, Invent

ge-feolan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-feolan, l. ge-feólan; p. -fealh, pl. fulgon.
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Take here passage given under ge-felgan, and add: to press into, to make ones way into a place, get and remain in Wæs þǽr neáh Apollines templ; þá gefealh hé þǽr in and þǽr þá niht gewunode juxta Apollinis templum fuit, ibique se ad manendum contulit

burh-bryce

(n.)
Grammar
burh-bryce, -brice, es; m.
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A breaking into a castle or dwelling, — the fine for this burglary, L. In. 45; Th. i. 130, 6, note 9: L. Alf. pol. 40; Th. i. 88, 7, note 16

Linked entry: burh-brece

ǽwisc-nys

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Add: Shamelessness, impudence Ǽwyscnes inpu-dentia , An. Ox. 4306. Ǽwisnes, obscenitas , 4, 69. On ǽwiscnesse in propatulo , Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 16: 46, 57. Ǽwiscnessum (ǽswic-?) opprobrium , Ps. L. 122, 4

bisceop

(n.)
Grammar
bisceop, biscop, biscep, es; m.

a BISHOP, prelateepiscopusa chief priest of the Jewspontifexa heathen priest of the Romans and Egyptians

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adryfon Egbert, king of the West-Saxons, sent his son Æthelwulf, and Ealhstan his bishop, into Kent, with a large part of the army,, and drove Baldred the king northward over the Thames, Chr. 823; Ing. 87, 6-15: 845; Ing. 92, 1.

sceáwere

(n.)
Grammar
sceáwere, es; m.

an observer,a spya watch-towera mirrora buffoon, an actor

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Sceáwere(the word occurs in a list of military terms), speculia Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 4. a mirror Sceáwere(in a list of words connected with dress.) speculea Cf.

Linked entry: sceáwend-sprǽc

Englisc

(adj.)
Grammar
Englisc, Ænglisc; adj.

ENGLISHAnglĭcus

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Ðæt is on Englisc, mín God that is in English, my God, Mt. Bos. 27, 46. On Englisc in English, Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, 22. On Englisc land, ne Englisc on Wilisc in England [English land], nor English in Welsh, L. O. D. 6; Wilk. 126, 3.

Linked entries: Anglisc Ænglisc

beorþ

(n.)
Grammar
beorþ, berþ, byrþ, e; f : es; n? [beorþ bears, from beoran, as byrþ birþ from beran]

A BIRTHthe act of coming into lifethe thing bornnativitaspartusfetus

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A BIRTH, the act of coming into life, the thing born; nativitas, partus, fetus Cot. 87. Found in the compounds berþ-estre, berþ-ling : v. also beorþor, beorþor-cwelm, -þínen; hyse-beorþor

Linked entries: byrþ byrþ-ling

folc-sceaða

(n.)
Grammar
folc-sceaða, an; m.

People's tyrantvillainpŏpŭti tyrannus

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People's tyrant, villain; pŏpŭti tyrannus Ðæs weorudes ða wyrrestan fá folcsceaðan feówertyne gewiton in forwyrd sceacan of the host the worst, hateful villains, fourteen departed into destruction, Andr. Kmbl. 3184; An. 1595

Linked entry: leód-sceaða

þurruc

(n.)

a small shipthe bottom part of a ship

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It occurs in the Persones Tale: 'Smal dropes of water, that enteren thurgh a litel crevis in the thurrok, and in the botonr of a ship.

Gleáwceaster-scír

(n.)
Grammar
Gleáwceaster-scír, e; f.
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Gloucestershire Intó Gleáwecesterscýre,C. D. ii. 132, 30. Tó Gleáweceastrescíre (Gleáwcestrescíre, v. l. ), Chr. 1016; P. 152, 10. Tó Gleáwcestrescíre, 1038; P. 161, 18. ¶ Latin form :-- In Glocestriae schira, C. D. iv. 273, 24

ge-hyld

(n.)
Grammar
ge-hyld, es; n.

Regardobservationkeepingconcealingobservantiacustodia

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Regard, observation, keeping, concealing; observantia, custodia In gehylde rihtra Eástrana in the keeping of right Easter, Bd. 2, 4; S. 505, 25. Ic wæs on ðínum gehylde begangen in observationibus tuis exercebor, Ps. Th. 76, 10.

Linked entry: ge-heald

hyrnan

(v.)
Grammar
hyrnan, p. de
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into Scylfton; and from Scylfton along stream until it comes to the mill-weir that juts out into Ducklingdown, Cod.

Linked entry: ge-hyrned

tó-middes

(prep.; adv.)
Grammar
tó-middes, prep. (adv.)

in the midst of,amidst,into the midst ofin the midst of,in the middle ofinto the midst of

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illum sedentem in medio doctorum ... in medio doctorum sedens invenitur, Past. 49; Swt. 385, 21-25.

Linked entries: middes

till

(n.)
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On ðam gim ástíhþ on heofenas up hýhst on geáre and of tille ágrynt in it (June) the sun mounts up into the skies highest in the year and declines from thai point, Menol. Fox 220; Men. 111. [Cf. O. H. Ger. zil destinatum: Ger. ziel.]

loca

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Ic sume in bryne sende, in líges locan (into the cloister of flame, hell), Jul. 474 ; and add: v. cǽg-, cealf-, heáfod-loca

stigel

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. ¶ in a compound :-- On stigel-ác, C. D. iii. 461, 6. Add

wapolian

(v.)
Grammar
wapolian, p. ode
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Ingá forrotednys on bánum mínum and under mé heó wapelige ingrediatur putredo in ossibus meis et subter me scateat, Cant. Habac. 16. v. preceding word