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þeór-ádl

(n.)
Grammar
þeór-ádl, e; f.

Some disease

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Similar entries v. preceding word Wiþ þeórádle on eágum ðe mon gefigo hǽt, Lchdm. ii. 38, 5. Lǽcedómas wið þeórádlum ... Drenc wiþ þeórádle, 116, 1, 13: 118, 1, 18: 172, 30. Drencas and sealfa wiþ þeórádlum, 12, 1, 3

Linked entries: þeór þeór-drenc

seonu-wealt

(adj.)
Grammar
seonu-wealt, (sionu-, sinu-, sino-, sine-, sin-, syne-); adj.

That may be always rolled ⬩ round ⬩ round ⬩ circular ⬩ cylindrical ⬩ round ⬩ spherical ⬩ globular ⬩ of a building ⬩ having a concave roof or dome

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Se móna went his hrigc tó ðære sunnan, ðæt is, se sinewealta ende ðe ðǽr onlýht biþ, Lchdm. iii. 242, 14. Ðæs sinewealtan hringes teretes(-is ?) cycli, Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 60.

Linked entries: syne-wealt sine-wealt sino-walt sin-wealt

fór-beran

(v.)
Grammar
fór-beran, fóre-beran; p. -bær; pp. -boren [fór, fóre before; beran to bear]

To fore-bear ⬩ to bear or carry before ⬩ to prefer ⬩ præferre

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To fore-bear, to bear or carry before, to prefer; præferre Ðæt ic fórbær rúme regulas and réðe mód geongra monna that I preferred the lax rules and rough minds of young men, Exon. 39 b; Th. 131, 22; Gú. 459.

Linked entry: fóre-beran

ge-rif

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

A seizing, taking away, a catching-as of fish, also that which is caught ⬩ raptura, captura

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A seizing, taking away, a catching-as of fish, also that which is caught; raptura, captura Án gerif fisca, oððe án snǽs fisca oððe óðra þinga one taking of fish, or one spear of fish, or of other things; una sorta, Mone A. 141; Recd. 37, 77; Wrt.

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nyllan

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Oft monn bið ðǽre earfoðnesse láreówdóme underðiéded, ðeáh hé ǽr nolde his láreówes lárum bión, Past. 35, 11. Hwæt be him nellendum gewurðan. sceoldon (hwæt hí sceolan nyllan, v. l.) quid de eis nolentibus fiat, Gr. D. 61, 18. Add

up-ryne

(n.)
Grammar
up-ryne, es; m.

A coming up ⬩ rising of a heavenly body ⬩ coming of day

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Æfter sunnan setlgange ǽr mónan upryne, Lchdm. i. 330, 18. Ymb ðæs dæges uppyrne circa exortum diei, Bd. 4, 8; S. 576, 11

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feó-gýtsung

(n.)
Grammar
feó-gýtsung, e; f.

Money-desire ⬩ greed ⬩ avarice ⬩ pĕcūniæ cŭpīdo ⬩ avārĭtia

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Money-desire or greed, avarice; pĕcūniæ cŭpīdo, avārĭtia Ðæt he sceolde his treówe for feógýtsunge and lufan forleósan that he should lose his truth for desire and love of money, Bd. 2, 12; S. 514, 40

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ymb-standend

(n.)
Grammar
ymb-standend, es; m.
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Sum mon of ðǽm ymbstondendum quidam de circumstantibus Mk. Skt. Rush. Lind. 14, 47

flicce

(n.)
Grammar
flicce, es; n.
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Mon selle .IIII. scép and tuá flicca, C. D. i. 293, 9. Feówer swín and feór fliccu, 164, 31. Add

ge-snid

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Cf. sníþan ; Beóð oft ðá wunda mid ele gehǽlda, ðá ðe mon mid gesnide ( incisione ) gebétan ne meahte, Past. 271, 2. killing. Cf. sníþan; Swá swá sceáptð gesnide, R. Ben. 27, 10

meltan

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Add Geríst ꝥ him mon lytlum þá mettas selle þá þe late melten, leax, and þá fixas þá þe late meltan, Lch. ii. 176, 22-24

on-legen

(n.)
Grammar
on-legen, e; f.

An on-laying, (medicinal) application

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Mid onlegene swá swá mon of swelcum þingum wyrcþ . . . Lácna mid onlegena beres, 82, 14-24. Gesodene wuduæpla and hlafes cruman and swilce onlegena, 190, 15

síde

(n.)
Grammar
síde, an; f.

Silk

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Monast. Th. 27, 7

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Ǽr he [Ercol] ongan mid Creáca scypum, ðe mon dulmúnus hǽt, ðe man segþ ðæt in scip mǽge in þúsend manna before he [Hercules] began with Grecian ships, which are called dulmunus, of which it is said that one ship can hold a thousand men, Ors. 1, 10; Bos

on-dryslíc

(adj.)
Grammar
on-dryslíc, -drystlíc, -ðyrstlíc, deslíc; adj.

Terrible, dreadful

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Cwæð ðæt se mon wǽre ondrysenlíc (onderslíc, MS. T. : ondrislíc, MS. B.) on tó seónne ( terribilis aspectu ), Bd. 2, 16; S. 519, 35. Ondeslíc terribilis, Rtl. 69, 4 : orror (?), 162, 28. Ácwellan ondryslícum wítum, Shrn. 111, l0.

Linked entries: on-drislíc on-drysnlíc on-drystlíc

tó-standan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-standan, p. -stód; pp. -standen.

to stand apart ⬩ be distant ⬩ to differ ⬩ be different ⬩ to stand aloof ⬩ not to be forthcoming

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Tó-standendum mægna distantes vires, i. discordes, 26. to stand aloof, not to be forthcoming Be ðon ðe mon wíf bycgge, and ðonne sió gift tóstande. Gif mon wíf gebycgge, and sió gyft forð ne cume, L. In. 31; Th. i. 122, 3-6

fore-wrégan

(v.)
Grammar
fore-wrégan, p. de; pp. ed

To accuse strongly ⬩ valde accūsāre

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To accuse strongly; valde accūsāre He bútan leahtrum wæs clǽne geméted ðara þinga ðe hine mon forewrégde he was found without crimes clean of the things of which he was accused; absque crīmĭne accūsātus fuisse inventus est, Bd. 5, 19; S. 639, 30

Linked entry: wrégan

níw-cumen

(adj.)

newly come (to a particular belief) ⬩ a neophyte

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Tǽce him mon siððan tó nígcumenra manna húse, 97, 11

in-ylfe

Grammar
in-ylfe, Add: <b>, in-elfe, in-ifle, in-efle</b>
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Him mon selle góse innefle, Lch. ii. 176, 24. Wiccgan innelbe, 134, 4

giung

(adj.)
Grammar
giung, def. se giunga; adj.

Young ⬩ youthful ⬩ jŭvĕnis ⬩ adolescens

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Young, youthful; jŭvĕnis, adolescens Wæs sum giung mon ĕrat quidam adolescens, Bd. 4, 32; S. 611, 17, Se giunga the young man, Cd. 224; Th. 297, 3; Sat. 511. Ic ðé giungne underféng I took thee young, Bt. 8; Fox 24, 23

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