Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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ofer-hyge

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Dele the bracket; the alliteration requires the compound. Cf. ofer-méde for form and meaning

rǽfan

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Dele the passage given; the reading is gerǽpte. v. Bt. S. 112, 1, and add

stig

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In l. 3 for suestrina substitute ustrina ubi porci ustulantur, dele last passage, and add: (?)

æfter-boren

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Dele [ = æfter-genga, q. v.], and add

ban-segn

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Dele. For bansegn, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 76 read: ban ( = bandum) segn, cf. 101, 57

mild-hleahter

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Dele, and read mid hleahtre in Ps. Spl. 34, 19. v. Ps. Cam. 34, 16

wíl

(n.)
Grammar
wíl, a wile.
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Dele: v. flige-wíl, and add (?) Wocia, wýla catenarum, An. Ox. 3560. Wíla, 7, 257

Linked entry: wyla

be-dróg

(v.; part.)
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Dele: 'p. of be-dragan,' and add = O. Sax. be-dróg, p. of be-driogan

an-æðelian

(v.)
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Dele an = un, and v. un-æðelian. Add: [Cf. O. H. Ger. ant-adalen to degrade.]

blícan

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In bracket dele: Laym. blikien: O. Nrs. blika, and add

loppe

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Dele 'flea (?), ' and the query after ' spider, ' and add: [v. N. E. D. lop.] Cf. lobbe

þreá

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Dele þreás (?), and in l. 50 for þreás l. dreámas. v. Bl. N. p. 2. Add:

blandan

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Dele: 'p. bleónd, -e, -on', (cf. Icel. p. blett), and add

fisc-mere

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Dele-' vivarium, . . . Lye,' and add

sporu

(n.)
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sporu, a heel.
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Dele (?) and add Hé spearn hine mid his spuran hunc calce pulsavit, Gr. D. 254, 27

tindting

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Dele: the word seems only a bad reading of tyhting. Cf. Tyhtingce suasionis, An. Ox, 3382

dohtig

(adj.; part.)
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dohtig, def. se dohtiga; adj. [dohte, p. of dugan to avail]
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DOUGHTY, valiant, good; fortis, valĭdus, probus Forþférde Hacun, se dohtiga eorl, on sǽ Hakon, the doughty earl, died at sea, Chr. 1030: Erl. 162, 40. Ðyssa þinga is gecnǽwe ǽlc dohtig man on Cent [MS. Kænt] and on Súþ-Seaxum [MS. -Sexan] every good

Linked entry: DYHTIG

crano-hawc

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Dele, and see Whitman, p. 45. Cf. O. H. Ger. 'accipiter, quem chranohári dicunt,' Grff. iv. 614

ge-beágian

(v.)
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Dele -bégian, and second passage, and add Gebeágað (so the MS.) coronat, Ps. Spl. C. 102, 4

hlígan

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Dele 'or hligan?', for the Latin in the second passage substitute ' scientiae sibi nomen extendunt', and add:

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