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speld

(n.)
Grammar
speld, es; n.; pl. speld and speldru (? or speldra (see below) from speldr. Cf. 'Spelder of woode esclat, Palsgrave. The schafte to spildurs spronge,
  • Avow. of Arthur,'
  • Halliwell's Dict.
): speld, e; f.

A splintera thin piece of wood used as a torcha torch(splinters)splinter of a lancea tableta flakea tablet

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A splinter, a thin piece of wood used as a torch, a torch On spelde in favillam, Anglia xiii. 35, 213. Speldum favillis, 36, 234, Ðara spaca speldra malleoli Similar entries (v. spæc), Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 56. Biernende speld tedas, 95, 26.

Bryttas

(n.)
Grammar
Bryttas, Brittas, Brettas, Breotas, Brytas, Britas; pl. m.

BritonsBritonesBretonsArmoricani

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Ðætte Angel-þeód wæs gelaðod fram Bryttum on Breotone that the Angle-nation was invited by the Britons into Britain, 1, 15; S. 483, 2.

Linked entry: Brettas

blód

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Handa mid manna blódum befýlede, Angl. xi. 113, 36. Add

fers

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Add: a verse of poetry Engla sum . . . þás vers him mid gyldenum stafum áwritene on þám handum betǽhte . . . þǽra versa anginne þe benyðan þám forman verse stant, healfe þá vers gebyriað tó þám termene, Angl. viii. 325, 46-326, 10. sentence, verse of

mennisc

(adj.)
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mennisc, adj.
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Ic andette Gode and ðǽm (ðe, MS. ) menniscum men mínum gástlicum scrifte, Angl. xi. 99, 56. Hé ásende mennisce sprǽce on þone heort, Hml. S. 30, 44. Englas geþafodon ǽr Drihtnes tócyme þæt mennisce men him tó feóllon, Hml. Th. i. 38, 27.

mód-geþanc

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Ic ondette míne synna . . . for múð and mearh and módgeþonc, sionwe and sídan and swýran, Angl. xi. 98, 50. a thought Swilce beóð þæs mannes módgeþancas ita stint casus mentis, Gr. D. 6, 6.

notu

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Ne sceolde hé nán ðing forgýman ðe ǽfre tó note mehte, Angl. ix. 265, 7: 260, 14

on-gemang

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Ongemang interim, Angl. xiii. 393, 400: 405, 569: 408, 613. <b>II a.</b> with

rúmlíce

(adv.)
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Ymbe þises bissextus gefyllednysse wé wyllað rúmlícor iungum cnihtum geopenian, Angl. viii. 306, 15: 32. add: abundantly Se man þe næbbe of hwám hé mæge rúmlíce ælmes-san syllan, Hml. A. 141, 80.

wís-dóm

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wís-dóm, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Gyf þu wylle witan mid wísdóme (cf. witan mid fullum geráde, 312, 13) þǽra rihtinga gesceád, Angl. viii. 305, 8. Add 'Hú magon wé swá dýgle áhicgan . . . hú þé swefhede, oððe wyrda gesceaft wísdóm bude'. . .

þurh-scríþan

(v.)

to pass throughglide throughto go through a subjectexamineconsiderperlustrare

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our Lord's nature according to the flesh ), ne on him gelýfan swylce hé sý ánfeald man búton his godcundnysse, ac wé sceolon gelýfan ðæt hé ys sóð man and sóðlíce God, Anglia viii. 324, 1

pinn

(n.)
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a pin, peg Ne sceolde hé nán þing forgýman ðe ǽfre tó note mehte; ne músfellan, ne ðæt git læsse is, tó hæpsan pinn,Anglia ix. 265, 10. [From Latin pinna.] an instrument for writing, a pen Mið pinn ł urittsæx calami, Mt. Kmbl. p. 2, 17

swíþ-from

(adj.)
Grammar
swíþ-from, adj.
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Mín geswíþfroma ( addressing the Deity ), Anglia xii. 508, 1. v. next word

slá-wyrm

(n.)
Grammar
slá-wyrm, es; m.
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Angl. 343), a kind of snake: — Sláwyrm stellio, Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 25: 78, 60: spalangius, 24, 27: Hpt. Gl. 450, 26: regulus (cf. regulus est serpens, avis, et rex parvulus omnis, Wrt. Voc. i. 221, 9), Kent. Gl. 913: Engl. Stud. x. 40.

árfæstnes

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Add: piety Pietas árfæstnys, Angl. xi. 107, 8. Ǽrfastness, Wülck. Gl. 251, 18. mercy, clemency, kindness Ðurh ðá mildheortnesse his árfæsðnesse per pietatis viscera, Past. 99, 1.

ge-widlian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-widlian, l. ge-wídlian,
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Ic míne ciricean oft sóhte mid gewídlode líchoman and mid unclǽne gegierelan, Angl. xi. 99, 82

hýr-mann

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Symle sceal gód scýrman his hýrmen scyrpan mid manunge, and him eác leánian be ðám ðe hý earnian, Angl. ix. 260, 22. Add

ofer-hlifian

(v.)
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Add Manega trahtnedon ymbe þis angin . . . ac ic hig ealle oferhlifige oððe oferswýðe (ego sublimor), Angl. viii. 307, 8. Ofe[r]hleofað praecellat, i. superemineat, An. Ox. 309.

á-wéstan

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Þæne áwéstendan deófol, Angl. viii. 330, 25. Áwéstendum populantibus, An. Ox. 2715. Gehwilce ǽnlípige sind mid fǽrlicum slihte áwéste, Hml. Th. ii. 124, 10. Add

hóc

a hookchaindragginga fish-hook

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Gl. 289, II), 63, 81 (both glosses occur in lists of words connected with ships). a sharp bend or angle in the length of anything