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be-witan

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be-witan, <b>; I.</b>
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Ðú, man, bewite þé sylfne scito, homo, temetipsum, Verc. Först. 128, 16. Add

be-wreón

Similar entry: in-bewreón

be-wuna

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Hé þæt feoh tó sellanne næfde his here swá hié bewuna wǽron, Ors. 3, 7; S. 116, 15. Add

big-spæc

Similar entry: bí-swæc

be-áhsian

(v.)

Similar entry: be-áscian

be-blonden

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Dele

be-bod

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Bebod decretum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 46: imperium, An. Ox. 1247. Man mót wífian æt þám þriddan cneó æfter þǽre ealdan ǽ bebode (secundum veteris legis sanctionem), Ll. Th. ii. 216, 21. Hét hé beódan þæt hié fóron ealle út ætsomne. Þá ætsǽton ða Centiscan

be-bregdan

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Séteras ðá ðe hiǽ sóðfæsto bebrugden (simularent). Add

be-búgan

(v.)

to avoid.

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to avoid. Hé bebeáh hí and warnode hine wiþ hí swá swá wið þone ealdan feónd eam quasi hostem cavens, Gr. D. 276, 2. Ongan hé his freónd and his geféran bebúgan amicos coepit et familiares deserere, 181, 1. Add

be-bodian

(v.)

to commendentrust

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to commend, entrust Bebodadon ł gefeastadon commendauerunt, Lk. L. R. 12, 48

Linked entry: bodian

be-bláwan

(v.)

to blow upon

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to blow upon On bebléw hine inflammavit eum, Ps. L. 104, 20. Ne lǽte hine wind bebláwan þý dæge, Lch. ii. 288, 28

be-clýsan

to closeshut what is open to closeput an end toto shut up in a place

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Add: to close, shut what is open Hé his duru beclýst, Lk. 13, 25. Þá blóstman hý sylfe beclýsað, and eft hig hig sylfe geopeniað, Lch. i. 154, 1. Þú beclýsedest þyses mannes múð, Hml. S. 22. 86. Ðæs scræfes locstán hí wel fæste beclýsdon, Hml. S. 23,

be-cnáwan

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Ben. 38, 17. Mon, hwi nultu the bicnowe? R. S. 1, 31. Add

be-cerran

Similar entry: be-cirran

be-clemman

Grammar
be-clemman, Dele:
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'Beclæmed Lye.' glutinatus

be-cyrran

Similar entry: be-cirran

be-dragan

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Dele, and

be-cwiddian

(v.)

Similar entry: be-cwyddod

be-cyme

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be-dyppan

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Heó wæs gelǽded tó ánre eá and bedypped in ꝥ wæter (in aquam mersa), Gr. D. 73, 24. Add