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folgian

(v.)
Grammar
folgian, p. ode, ade, ede; pp. od, ad, ed; v. trans, dot. and acc.

to FOLLOW ⬩ go behind ⬩ run after ⬩ pursue ⬩ sĕqui ⬩ insĕqui ⬩ to follow as a servant, attendant or disciple ⬩ cŏmĭtāri ⬩ adhærēre alicui ⬩ servīre ⬩ subdĭtus esse

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to FOLLOW, go behind, run after, pursue; sĕqui, insĕqui Míne sceáp gehýraþ míne stefne, and hig folgiaþ me ŏves meæ vócem meam audiunt, et sĕquuntur me, Jn. Bos. 10, 27. He folgode feorhgeníþlan he pursued his deadly foes, Beo. Th. 5858; B. 2933. Þegn

Linked entry: FYLGEAN

help

Grammar
help, hylp (an i-stem noun? Cf. u-grade forms, hulpa, hulfa in O. L. Ger. and O.H.Ger. But cf. also hylpan = helpan):

help ⬩ assistance ⬩ succour ⬩ an aid ⬩ a thing ⬩ a place ⬩ a refuge ⬩ a cure ⬩ remedy of disease

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Add: help, assistance, succour Nú is hire helpe heáhsǽl cumen venit tempus miserendi ejus, Ps. Th. 101, Is micel þearf ealre þisse þeóde helpes and rǽdes. Wlfst. 243, 4. Sende se túnrǽd his helges biddende. Hml. S. 31, 1220. Hé hyne bæd hylpes, Shrn.

Linked entry: helpe

pusa

(n.)
Grammar
pusa, posa, an ; m.
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A bag, scrip 'Nolite portare sacculum ne peram : ' 'Ne bere gé mid eow pusan oððe codd' ... Hwæt mǽnþ se pusa búton woruldlíce byrþene, Homl. Th. ii. 532, 19-24. Se ríca berþ máre ðonne hé behófige tó his fórmettum, se þearfa berþ æmtigne pusan, i. 254

Linked entry: posa

esole

(n.)
Grammar
esole, (-ele), an; f.
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A she-ass Ofer eoselan folan sitteude, Bl. H. 71, 5. Gyt gemétaþ eoselan (asinam) gebundene and hire folan, 79, 28: 69, 35. Eosula and fola asinam et pullum, Mt. R. 21, 7. Eoslena asinorum, Gr. D. 185, 3

Linked entries: eosele esol

CRABBA

(n.)
Grammar
CRABBA, an; m.

A CRAB, crayfish ⬩ cancer ⬩ a sign of the zodiac ⬩ cancer ⬩ signum zodiaci ⬩ cancer

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A CRAB, crayfish; cancer Crabba cancer Ælfc. Gl. 102; Som. 77, 74; Wrt. Voc. 55, 78; 77, 68. Hwæt féhst ðú on sæ? Crabban and lopystran quid capis in mari? Cancros et polypodes Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 11. a sign of the zodiac, cancer; signum zodiaci, cancer

melda

(n.)
Grammar
melda, an; m.

a narrator ⬩ an informer ⬩ announcer ⬩ a betrayer

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a narrator, an informer, announcer Ðæs ðe ic ǽfre on ealdre ǽngum ne wolde monna ofer moldan melda weorþan what I would never relate to any man upon earth, Exon. 50 b; Th. 176, 3; Gú. 1203: 73 b; Th. 275, 28; Jul. 557. Sió æsc biþ melda, nalles þeóf

tunne

(n.)
Grammar
tunne, an; f.

A barrel ⬩ cask

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A barrel, cask Tunne cuba, Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 56: 17, 29: cupa, i. 24, 54: 83, 26: cantarus, ubi aqua mittitur, velydria, ii. 128, 11. Twá tunnan fulle hlútres aloð, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 203, 8: Chr. 852; Erl. 67, 38. Tunnena cuparum, modiorum, Hpt. Gl

scytta

(n.)
Grammar
scytta, an; m.

A shooter ⬩ an archer

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A shooter, an archer Sagittarius ðæt is scytta, Lchdm. iii. 246, 2. Strǽlbora and scytta arcister, Wrt. Voc. ii. 7, 32. Ðá gebende án scytta his bogan, Homl. Skt. i. 18, 219. On scyttan fæn, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 132, 22. On scyttan mere; ðæt on scyttan

Linked entries: scota scytere

blǽdre

(n.)
Grammar
blǽdre, blǽddre, an; f.

That which is blown out ⬩ an inflated swelling, blister, pimple, blain, pustule ⬩ pustula, papula ⬩ the BLADDER, receptacle for the urine ⬩ vesica

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[bláwan to blow; flare] That which is blown out, hence an inflated swelling, blister, pimple, blain, pustule; pustula, papula Be ǽghwylcum uncúþum blǽdrum ðe on mannes nebbe sittaþ of all strange blisters which exist on a man's face, Herb. cont. 2, 19

Linked entry: blǽddre

úhta

(n.)
Grammar
úhta, an; m.

the last part of the night ⬩ the time just before daybreak ⬩ the time at which the earliest of the seven canonical services was held, the time of nocturns ⬩ De nocturna celebratione.

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the last part of the night, the time just before daybreak Þis wæs on úhtan eall geworden ǽr dægréde, Cd. Th. 294, 2; Sat. 465. On úhtan mid ǽrdæge, Beo. Th. 252; B. 126: Andr. Kmbl. 469; An. 235: 2775; An. 1390: Elen. Kmbl. 209; El. 105. Syle drincan

Windles-óra

(n.)
Grammar
Windles-óra, an; m.

Windsor

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Windsor Æt Windlesóran, Chr. 1061; Erl. 194, 3. Wæs se cyng on Windlesóran, 1095; Erl. 231, 22. Ðis writ wæs gemaced æt Windlesóran, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 209, 27. Ic habbe gegefan Criste and Sancte Petre intó Westmynstre Windlesóran and Stáne, 227, 6:

Élíg

(n.)
Grammar
Élíg, e; f. [él = ǽl an eel, íg an island]

The isle of ELY, Cambridgeshire ⬩ insŭla Eliensis in agro Cantabrigiensi

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The isle of ELY, Cambridgeshire; insŭla Eliensis in agro Cantabrigiensi Is Élíg ðæt land on Eást-Engla mǽgþa, hú hugu syx hund hída, on eálondes gelícnesse; is eall mid fenne and mid wætere ymbseald, and fram genihtsumnesse ǽla ða ðe on ðám ylcan fennum

wurma

(n.)
Grammar
wurma, wyrma, an; m.: wurme, an; f.

A shell-fish from which a purple dye was obtained, ⬩ a purple dye ⬩ woad, a plant from which a dye is got

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A shell-fish from which a purple dye was obtained, a purple dye; also woad, a plant from which a dye is got Wurma murex, wurma, weoloc murice, Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 64, 62. Wurma, reád godwebb ostrum, 64, 10. Wyrma ostrum, i. 286, 34. Wurman murice, ii.

mynster-hata

(n.)
Grammar
mynster-hata, an; m.

A hater or enemy of monasteries

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A hater or enemy of monasteries Hér syndan sacerdbanan and mynsterhatan, Wulfst. 165, 28

cipe

(n.)
Grammar
cipe, ciepe, an; f.

An onion ⬩ cæpa, allium cæpe

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An onion; cæpa, allium cæpe, Lin Cipe an onion, L. M. 1, 39; Lchdm. ii. 102, 24. Genim garleac and cipan take garlic and onion, 1, 3; Lchdm. ii. 40, 15. Twá cipan oððe þreó gebrǽd on ahsan roast two or three onions in ashes, 1, 69 ; Lchdm. ii. 144, 14

Linked entry: ciepe

þeóstre

(adj.)
Grammar
þeóstre, þeóster (-or),(-ur), and þiéstre, þístre, þýstre; adj.

Dark ⬩ without light ⬩ of absence of spiritual or mental light, or of cheerfulness

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Dark. in a physical sense, without light Ðis (hell) is ðeóstræ hám, Cd. Th. 267, 14; Sat. 38. Ðá hangode swíðe þýstru wæter on ðám wolcnum tenebrosa aqua in nubibus, Ps. Th. 27, 11. Wæs se óðer beám eallengasweart, dim and þýstre, Cd. Th. 30, 36; Gen

morþor-wyrhta

(n.)
Grammar
morþor-wyrhta, an m.

A worker of iniquity or of murder

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A worker of iniquity or of murder Hér syndan mánsworan and morþorwyrhtan, Wulfst. 165, 30

ge-wíder

Grammar
ge-wíder, l. ge-widere, and in l. 3 for gewidor abidon l. gewidora bidon.
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Add: The word seems to occur only in pl. Sumor æfter cymeð, wearm gewideru, Met. 11. 61. Of untídlican gewideran, þæt is, of wǽtum sumerum and of drýgum wintrum temporum turbata temperies, hoc est, aut siccitas hiemis, aut humor aestatis, Ors. 3, 3 ;

un-scrýdan

(v.)
Grammar
un-scrýdan, p. de

To undress ⬩ strip ⬩ divest

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To undress, strip, divest Unscrýdde exfibulat, i. exsolvit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 24. Byþ unscrýdd exuitur, Scint. 226, 9. Unscrídde exutos, nudatos, Hpt. Gl. 423, 52. Unscrýdde, Homl. Skt. i. 11, 146. Grammar un-scrýdan, with acc. of person Baðiendra

miltestre

(n.)
Grammar
miltestre, an; f.

A harlot

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A harlot Myltestre meretrix vel scorta, Wrt. Voc. i. 86, 72: Gen. 38, 15. Ne lǽt ðú ðíne dohtor beón myltestre me prostituas filiam tuam, Lev. 19, 29. Beclypte seó myltestre ðæt clǽne mǽden, Homl. Skt. 2, 169: 7, 178. Cómon tó ánre miltistran húse ingressi