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talu

Grammar
talu, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Þurh þínre leásan tale ic ongyten hæbbe ꝥ þú eart án torswíþe leás man, Hml. S. 23, 687. Add Talu disputatio, An. Ox. 27, 18.

hoppetan

(v.)
Grammar
hoppetan, p. te

To jump about [for joy], ⬩ leap, ⬩ rejoice, ⬩ to throb [of a wound]

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To jump about [for joy], leap, rejoice, to throb [of a wound] Swá benne ne burnon ne burston ne hoppetan so that the wounds should neither burn nor burst nor throb, L. M. 3, 63; Lchdm. ii. 352, 1.

ge-híwian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-híwian, <b>; IV.</b>
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Manega geleáfan Crtítes ... þurh leáse híwunge gehealdan hí gehíwiað ( simulant ), Scint. 129, 12. Add

þúfian

(v.)
Grammar
þúfian, p. ode

To become leafy or bushy

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To become leafy or bushy Þúfaþ and wridaþ frutescit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 38, 13

lár-sum

(adj.)
Grammar
lár-sum, adj.
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Ready to learn, docile Sién wé snotre . . . and lár*-*sume, Verc. Först. 95, 23

pic

(n.)
Grammar
pic, es ; n.
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Ðá hét se cásere meltan on hwere leád and scipteoran and pic, Shrn. 91, 7 : Lchdm. ii. 318. 4

tóm

(adj.)
Grammar
tóm, adj.

Empty; ⬩ figuratively, ⬩ free from.

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Cf. leás Ðæt hý móstun mánweorca tóme lifgan and tíres blǽd écne ágan (cf. the man farid imu an giwald Godes tionono tómig, Hél. 2490), Exon. Th. 74, 26; Cri. 1212. Tome saule (animam inanem) he filled with fode, Ps. 106, 9.

land-rest

(n.)
Grammar
land-rest, e; f.

A land-couch ⬩ grave

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A land-couch, grave Lǽtan landreste to leave the grave, Andr. Kmbl. 1561; An. 782

and-weorc

(n.)
Grammar
and-weorc, ond-weorc, an-weorc, es; n.

Matter ⬩ substance ⬩ material ⬩ metal ⬩ a cause of anything ⬩ materia ⬩ cæmentum ⬩ metallum ⬩ causa

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Ðæt leád is hefigre ðonne ǽnig óðer andweorc plumbum cæíeris metallis est gravius, Past. 37, 3; Hat. MS. 50 a. 16. Búton andweorce without cause, Bt. 10; Fox 30, 2: Bt. Met. Fox 17, 32; Met. 17, 16

Linked entry: an-weorc

cwice

(n.)
Grammar
cwice, an; f.

Quick-growing grass, couch-grass, quitch-grass ⬩ gramen

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Genym ðysse wyrte leáf, ðe man gramen, and óðrum naman cwice nemneþ take leaves of this herb, which is named gramen, and by another name quitch, Herb. 79 ; Lchdm. i. 182, 8: Lchdm. iii. 12, 28: 16, 8. Genim cwican take quitch, L.

gagel

(n.)
Grammar
gagel, es; m? gagelle, gagille, gagolle, an; f.

Gale ⬩ sweet gale ⬩ myrica gale

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Nim þré leáf gageles take three leaves of gale, Lchdm. iii. 6, 17. Genim gagellan ... dó of ða gagellan take gale ... remove the gale, L.M. 2, 51; Lchdm. ii. 264, 27 : 2, 53; Lchdm. ii. 274, 10. Genim gagollan take gale, 3, 14; Lchdm. ii. 316, 15

biter-nes

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Ágyld þú mé mid biternesse leán, R. Ben. 22, 19. Þes middangeard flýhþ from ús mid mycelre biternesse, Bl. H. 115, 17. Similar entries cf. biter, III. Biternes accedia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 9. Yfel biternesse anda, R. Ben. 131, 12

un-wrǽst

(adj.)
Grammar
un-wrǽst, -wrǽste; adj.

Weak ⬩ poor ⬩ sorry ⬩ miserable ⬩ wretched

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Eálá hú leás and hú unwrést is ðysses middaneardes wela, Chr. 1086; Erl. 220, 40. Hé wearð him on ánum unwrǽstum (unwrǽste, Th. 321, 10) scipe (cf. uneáðe ætburstan, p. 320, col. 2) férde ofer sǽ, Chr. 1051; Th. 319, 3.

Linked entry: wrǽst

seld-hwanne

(adv.)
Grammar
seld-hwanne, adv.

Seldom ⬩ rarely

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Ðeáh seldhwænne leáf geseald sié tó sprecenne quamvis rara loquendi concedatur licentia, R. Ben. 21, 16. Heó wolde seldhwænne hire líc baðian, Homl. Skt. i. 20, 44. Seldhwonne biþ ðaette áuht manegum monnum ánes hwæt lícige, Bt. 18, 3; Fox 64, 29

Linked entry: hwanne

wæl-fǽhþ

(n.)
Grammar
wæl-fǽhþ, e; f.

Deadly feud ⬩ hostility that leads to slaying

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Deadly feud, hostility that leads to slaying Hé wælfǽhða dǽl, sæcca gesette. Beo. Th. 4061; B. 2028

blóstma

(n.)
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Hire leáf and blóstman meng tógædere, Lch. ii. 24, 21. In passage from Bd. for blóstma substitute blóstmena (blósmana, v.l.), and add: blóstme; f. (?)

brítan

(v.)
Grammar
brítan, p. te

To pound ⬩ bruise ⬩ crush

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Genim wyrte leáf and brýt hý, Lch. i. 72, 4. Genim hý (garclive) dríge and dype on wearmum wætere, swá þú eáþelícost hý brýtan mæge, 130, 6. Brýtende friens, Wrt. Voc. ii. 37, 38 : 150, 74

Linked entry: brýtan

hund-feald

Grammar
hund-feald, [In the first passage perhaps hundfealdgetel should be read. v. þúsendfeald-getel.]
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Z. 13, 16. be hundfealdum a hundredfold: — -Be hundfealdum hé onfghð leán centuplum accipiet. Mt. 19, 29. ꝥ hí be hundfealdum m

sceand

(n.)
Grammar
sceand, es; m.

a buffoon, charlatan

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Ðonne sægde Petrus, ðæt hé wǽre leás drý and sceand and scyldig ǽswica then Peter said that he (Simon the sorcerer) was a false sorcerer and a shameless impostor and a guilty deceiver Blickl. Homl. 175,7.

Linked entry: sceond

hón

(n.)

tendrils of a vine [?]

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Ðá geseah ic gyldenne wíngeard trumlícne and fæstlícne and ða twígo his hongodon geond ða columnan. ða wundrode ic ðæs swíðe. wǽron in ðæm wíngearde gyldenu leáf and his hón and his wæstmas wǽron cristallum and smaragdus eác ðæt gimcyn mid ðæm cristallum