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gímeleáslíce

(adv.)
Grammar
gímeleáslíce, adv.
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Ðára stówa sum raþe rotaþ gif hire mon gímeleáslíce tilað. Lch. ii. 84, 25. Þá wénde hé ꝥ hé þá leóhtfatu gýmeleáslícor bétte þonne hé sceolde lampades negligenter exstinxisse se credidit Gr.

wæterian

(v.)
Grammar
wæterian, p. ode

To water, supply with water,give drink to living creaturesto water plantsto irrigate

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Hé wæterode hire heorde adaquavit gregem, Gen. 29, 10. Hí heora orf wæterodon refectis gregibus, 29, 3. Orf wæterian, Ex. 2, 16. Oxan wæterian, Coll. Monast. Th. 20, 1. Ðá hét ic wætrigan úre hors and úre niéteno, Nar. 12, 12. Tó wætranne, Lk. Skt.

Linked entry: wætrian

ǽ-welm

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-welm, -wellm, -wylm, -wylme, -wielme, es; m. [eá water, wælm a welling or boiling up]

A welling up of waterspringfountainsourcehead of a riverbeginningaquæ fons

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Andlang Lígan óþ hire ǽwylm along the Lea unto its source, L. A. G. 1; Th. i. 152, 9. Ðære ǽwylme [MS. L. ǽwielme] is neáh ðære eá Rínes whose spring is near the river Rhine, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 18, 25.

Linked entries: ǽ-wylm eá-wylm

lyre

(n.)
Grammar
lyre, es; m.

Lossdamagedestructiondetriment

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Hire lima lyre [of a person paralysed], Homl. Th. ii. 546, 31. 'Ic wille ofgán æt ðé his blód' ðæt is his lyre 'I will require at thy hands his blood,' that is, his destruction, i. 6, 27. Lífes lyre death, Exon. 44 b; Th. 151, 26; Gú. 801.

un-bindan

(v.)
Grammar
un-bindan, p. -band, pl. -bundon; pp. -bunden

To unbinduntie

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Se engel hire ðá unband, Homl. Th. i. 466, 31. Swá hwæt swá ðú unbindst ( solveres) ofer eorðan, ðæt byð unbunden (solutum) on heofonum, Mt. Kmbl. 16, 19: 18, 18. Ðæs fæder tungan his nama unband, Homl. Th. i. 352, 31. Álésde ł unband soluit, Ps.

Linked entry: on-bindan

un-trumness

(n.)
Grammar
un-trumness, e; f.

Weaknesssicknessillnessinfirmity

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Ðá gestód his wíf untrumnes on hire eágan ingruente oculis coligine subita, 4, 10; S. 578, 18. Líchomlícre untrumnesse ðrycced corporea infirmitate pressus, 4, 24; S. 598, 25. Of untrumnysse ( infirmitate ) ðæs gecyndes, 1, 27; S. 494. 13.

wull

(n.)
Grammar
wull, e; wulle, an; f.

Wool

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Ða loccas hire heáfdes wǽron swá hwíte swá wull, Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 177. Gá seó wǽge wulle tó .cxx. p., L. Edg. ii. 8; Th. i. 270, 3. Wulle flýs lanam, Ps. Th. 147, 5. Ne wát ic mec beworhtne wulle flýsum (uullan fliúsum, Txts. 150, 3), Exon.

Linked entries: wul wyll

an-lícnes

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Seó anlícnyss is tó understandenne on þǽre écnysse, and seó gelícnyss on hire þeáwum, Angl. vii. 20, 178.

hen

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His módor gewunode tó fédenne henna on hire húses cafortúne, ac hig gelómlíce áweg bær án fox . . . Cóm se fox, swá his gewuna wæs, and gelæhte áne henne (hæn, v. l.), Gr. D. 69, 22-70, 2.

leóma

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Seó sunne hæfð ðreó ágennyssa on hire; óðer is se leóma oððe beorhtnys ǽfre of ðǽre sunnan, seó ðe onlíht ealne middangeard, Hml. Th. i. 282, 9. Þonne se móna beó full, and his leóma ealne middaneard oferscíne, Angl. viii. 323, 6.

sceótan

Grammar
sceótan, <b>I a.</b>
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</b> add :-- Seó culfre fleáh þǽr út, and þá bróðra hire lócodon on, oþ ꝥ heó sceát in þone heofon (penetravit caelum), Gr. D. 275, 18. <b>IV c.

up-gang

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

a going uprising of a heavenly bodya going upa landingan incursiona way of going up

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Fram sunnan upgange óð hire setlgang, Ps. Th. 49, 2: 112, 3. Uppgange, 106, 3. Tóforan mónan upgonge, Nar. 13, 9.

Linked entry: up-gange

tó-sprǽdan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-sprǽdan, p. de

To spread outextendexpandspread in different directions

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Heó tósprǽt hire bósm ðǽr ðǽr ða réðan wuniaþ . . . and heó is genyrwed on ðone ende ðe ða gesceádwísan wuniaþ she expands her bosom where the fierce dwell. . . and is straitened in the quarter where the discreet dwell. Homl. Th. i. 536, 18.

stán-bucca

(n.)
Grammar
stán-bucca, Ælfric has wrongly given to the river-name Cinyps the meaning of
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Virgil Georg. 3, 312 and Isidore xii. 1. 14: &#39;Maiores hirci Cinyphii dicuntur a fluvio Cinyphe in Libya ubi grandes nascuntur.&#39; (Note by Dr. Craigie.)

be-fæstan

to fix,to place in securityto fix in the mindimplantto fix by promise or agreementto pledgeto committo commit to a person's chargeto commit to a placeto setbetake to an occupationto commendrecommend,to make acceptableto trust

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Dele passage under I, and add: to fix, to place in security Hié befæston hira wíf and hira scipu and hira feoh on Eást-Englum, Chr. 894; P. 88, 4. Þá Deniscan hæfdon hira wíf befæst innan Eást-Engle, 896; P. 89, 22.

swic-dóm

(n.)
Grammar
swic-dóm, es; m.
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hire sǽde þurh hire swicdóm, bepǽht, on hwam his strengð wæs, Jud. 16, 5.

a-fíndan

(v.)
Grammar
a-fíndan, l. á-findan ; p. -fand, -funde; pl. -fundon; pp. -funden,
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Eóde heó in tó hire berne; þá áfunde heó ꝥ hire sunu hæfde þearfum gedǽled þone hwǽte, Gr. D. 68, 17. Gif man áfinde ꝥ heora ǽnig on wóhre gewitnesse wǽre, Ll. Th. i. 204, 23.

ge-bróþor

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Swá se hálga wer sǽde þám mǽdene be hire gebróðrum (cf. hire bróðor Ecgfridus, 146, 13, his (Ecgfrith's) cyfesborena bródor, 148, 17), Hml. Th. ii. 148, 20. Hé geseah twégen gebróðra (-u, v. l. ), Mt. 4, 18. <b>I a.

á-styrian

(v.)

to move a thing from its placeto cause a living creature to move itself:--to stir up,to cause motion in somethingto cause emotion in a personto cause strifepassionTo stirmove one's self

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Ðí lǽs seó bóc ǽðryt þurh hire micelnysse ástyrige, Hml. Th. ii. 520, 5. Wearð ástyred mycel éhtnys, Hml. S. II, 5. Ástyrod, Ll. Th. ii. 342, 19.

Linked entry: á-styrung

ge-cynd

(n.)
Grammar
ge-cynd, f. also has gen. ge-cynd (Bl. H. 31, 32); dat.
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Swá déð eác seó sunne ... heó sécþ hire gecynde ... Swá déþ ǽlc gesceaft, wrígaþ wiþ his gecyndes, and gefagen biþ gif hit ǽfre tó cuman mæg. Bt. 25; F. 88, 22-29: Met. 13, 67. Onhelded wið þæs gecyndes (hire gecynde.