posel
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a small lump, a pill Gǽten smeoro geþýd tó poslum swelge let him swallow goat's grease squeezed to pills, Lchdm. i. 354, 9. v. next word
sundor-freódóm
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B. i. 155, 17: 154, 22. v. next word
Linked entry: freó-dóm
sweord-wyrhta
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-Móna se án and twentigoða unnytlíce tó wyrcenne bútan swurdwyrhtan (but the word glosses gladiatoribus), Lchdm. iii. 194, 10
á-latian
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Cf. the gloss to the same word: Uilesceret i. tardaret vel latode, Angl. xv. 208, 13
Linked entry: latian
circol-wyrde
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Angl. viii. 306, 26. v. next word
ofer-glésan
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to write an English word over a Latin one to explain the latter, make an interlinear gloss Aldred hit oferglóesade on Englisc, Jn. p. 188, 7
Linked entry: glésan
swíþrian
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Word unrihtwísra swýðradon ofer ús uerba iniquorum praeualuerunt super nos, Ps. L. 64, 4. Swýrian prevalere, R. Ben. I. 59, 14. Swýðrenda, prevalens, 12, 16. Add
windel-stán
A tower with a winding staircase
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A tower with a winding staircase Windelstán coclea, gewind circuitus ascensus (the word occurs in a list of names of buildings), Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 3
symbelmónaþ-líc
comitiales
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; the word translates comitiales in the gloss Ða symbelmónaðlícan ádla comitiales, Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 39
slícian
To make sleek, smooth, or glossy
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The word is also applied to making a fair show in speech: Alle ðine wordes beoð isliked, And so bisemed and biliked O. and N. 841. Wordes afaited and ysliked Ayenb. 212, 2. He can so well his wordes slikeGower ii. 365, 22.
risne
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B. v. ge-risene and next word
tó-slítere
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Skt. p. 2, 11. v. next word
Linked entry: slítere
canter-stæf
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A staff used by a cantor (v. preceding word)] III. canterstafas III. baculi cantorum (baculi quibus in ecclesia utebantur cantores, Migne), Cht. Th. 429, 23
for-strogdness
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This word is glossed by fortrúgadnisse in Ps. Srt. 51, 6: Ps. Spl. T. 51, 4: could for-strogdnis be an error for this form?
geond-leóhtend
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One who gives light over or through; the word, however, is used to gloss perlustrator: O Thoma Christi perlustrator (geondleóhtend) lateris, Hy. S. 128, 12
Linked entry: leóhte
líc-lic
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Likely, apparently suitable for a purpose Ídele word oððe hlehtre oððe gamene lí(c)lic verba vana ant risui apta, R. Ben. 1. 21, ii
rex-geníþla
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geníþlan Elene; either word alliterates with cwéne), hé wæs on þǽre cwéne gewealdum, El. 610. (?)
láð-weorc
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An evil work, work that is hateful to another Leornedan láðweorc Gode, Ps. Th. 105, 26
wibba
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A worm or beetle Se glisigenda wibba the glow-worm; cicindela, Wrt. Voc. i. 23, 77
hristung
A quivering
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A quivering, spasmodic action Ceolan hristung and hreóung hlýdende swíðust innan [or should hristlung (v. preceding word) be read ?], L. M. 2, 46; Lchdm. ii. 258, 18