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un-styriende

(adj.)
Grammar
un-styriende, un-styrigende; adj.

Not movingunmovingstationary

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Ða styriendan nétenu habbaþ eall ðæt ða unstyriendan habbaþ, and eác máre tó ... For ðæm sint ðás sceafta ðus gesceapene ðæt ða unstyriendan hí ne áhebben ofer ða styriendan, Bt. 41, 5; Fox 252, 20-31

be-wǽfan

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Of þám Maria sumne hire líchaman bewǽfde, Hml. S. 23 b, 793. Bewǽfan obvolvere, Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 41. ꝥ treów biþ úton gescyrped and bewǽfed mid þǽre rinde, Bt. 34, 10; F. 150, 7. ꝥám scyccelse þe hé mid bewǽfed wæs, Hml. S. 23 b, 218. Add

deáþ-þénunga

(n.)
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Ðá þreó fǽmnan þám Maria hire deáþþénunga bebeád, Nap. 16

feó-laga

(n.)
Grammar
feó-laga, an; m.

A fellowcolleaguepartner

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A fellow, colleague, partner Án marc goldes míne félage . . . on his félowes witnesse, Cht. Th. 573, 15, 21.

Linked entry: felage

hell-sceaþa

a fiendthe grave

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Similar entries Cf. hell; I, 1 For ðon ná helsceaða andet ðé and ne deáþ herede quia non infernns confitebitur te neque mars laudabit te. Ps. Rdr. 277, 18

Linked entry: helle-sceaþa

rów

(n.)
Grammar
rów, e; f.

Quiet, rest

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Biteache mi gast and mi bodi baðen to ro and to reste, Marh. 20, 5. Cristess resste and Cristess ro, Orm. 7042

Linked entry: rów

bísgu

Grammar
bísgu, l. bisgu,

occupationtrouble

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Martha hí (Mary) wolde habban tó hire bysegan, Hml. Th. ii. 440, 21. Ongemang óðrum bisgum ðisses kyneríces, Past. 7, 18. Búton hwá mid bysegum ofset sý nisi in causa gravis utilitatis quis occupatus fuerit, R. Ben. 58, 15: 59, 3.

lád-rinc

Grammar
lád-rinc, For 'The word, ... vehicularius' substitute: In attempting to determine the meaning of this word it should be noticed that lád in all its other compounds, lád-mann, -scipe, -teáh, -teów, has the force of leading, guidance. The
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lád-rinc seems to be a guide, and his special character in the passage given above may be inferred from the following passage Si aduenae de aliis regionibus aduenirent, debebant ducatum habere ad aliam regalem uillam quae proxima fuisset in illorum uia

lopystre

(n.)
Grammar
lopystre, an; f.

A lobstera locust

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Crabban and lopystran quid capis in mari? Cancros et polypodes, Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 13. Lopestro (loppestra, Rush.) lucustas, Mk. Skt. Lind. 1, 6

reáfung

(n.)
Grammar
reáfung, e; f.
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Plundering, spoiling Atheniensum se sige and seó reáfung ðæs Persiscan feós tó máran sconde wurde forðon siððan hié welcgran wǽron hié eác bleáðran gewurdon castra regiis opibus referta ceperunt, non parvo quidem antiquae industriae damno.

híwian

(v.)

to marry

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to marry: Add:

gemynd-dæg

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Add: the anniversary of a person's death Scs Gregorius gemynddæg (March 12. Cf. On ðone twelftan dæg ðæs mónðes (March) bið Sce Gregories geleórnes, Shrn. 62, 18), Ll. Th. i. 92, 5

biscep-wyrt

(n.)

marsh-mallow

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marsh-mallow, Wrt. Voc. 286, 15

seár

(adj.)
Grammar
seár, The MS. reading at Lch. i. 384, 14 may be retained. v. Siever's Grammar, § 35, Anm, 2.

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lǽl

(n.)
Grammar
lǽl, lél, e; f.

withewhipswitcha wealstripemarkbruiseswelling

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Lélan vibice, 123, 68. a weal, mark left on the flesh by a stroke from a rod, stripe, mark, bruise, swelling Sylle wunde wið wunde lǽl wið lǽle reddat vulnus pro vulnere, livorem pro livore, Ex. 21, 25: L. Ælfc. 19; Th. i. 48, 22.

Linked entry: lél

hátan

(v.)
Grammar
hátan, pres. and p. hátte, pl. hátton

To be called or named, have for a nameI am called

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Hú ne hátte hys módor Maria nonne mater ejus dicitur Maria? Mt. Kmbl. 13, 55. Ðe swá hátte that was thus called, Cd. 180; Th. 226, 17: Dan. 172: Bt. Met. Fox 1, 105; Met. 1, 53.

flód-weard

(n.)
Grammar
flód-weard, e; f.

A flood-guardsea-wallmăris custōdiamăris mūrus

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A flood-guard, sea-wall; măris custōdia, măris mūrus Flódwearde slóh he struck the sea-wall [i. e. the wall caused by dividing the Red Sea ], Cd. 167; Th. 209, 3; Exod. 493

árod

(n.)
Grammar
árod, es; m? [árian to honour]

A mark of honourbadge of officethe pallium given by the pope to a bishop or archbishophonoris vel muneris signum

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A mark of honour, badge of office, the pallium given by the pope to a bishop or archbishop; honoris vel muneris signum Hér Ælfríc arcebisceop férde to Róme æfter his árde [?

ég-streám

(n.)
Grammar
ég-streám, éh-streám, es; m.

A water-stream, a river, the sea aquæ fluctus, flūmen, măre

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A water-stream, a river, the sea; aquæ fluctus, flūmen, măre Hæfde Metod égstreám eft gecyrred the just Creator had averted the stream, Cd. 71; Th. 85, 15; Gen. 1415. Here wícode égstreáme neáh the host encamped near the river, Elen.

Linked entries: eá-streám éh-streám

ge-dwimorlíce

(adv.)
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Add: in appearance only, not really Wearð án mǽden forbróden (changed to a mare) þurh drýmanna dydrung, ge-dwimorlíce swá deáh . . .