Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

in-waru

(n.)
Grammar
in-waru, e; f.
Entry preview:

Performance of services due in the case of in-land. v. werian ; c .iii. hída tó inware, and óðer healf tó útware, Cht. E. 235, 28

sceaft

(adj.)
Entry preview:

D. shaftment. v. web-sceaft: lang-sceaft; adj

sǽ-upwearp

(n.)

jetsum

Entry preview:

what is thrown up on land by the sea, jetsum Ic habbe gegeofen Ælfwine abbod . . . ða sǽupwearp on eallen þingen æt Bramcæstre, Chart. Th. 421, 33

for-wurþan

(v.)

to perishpĕrīre

Entry preview:

to perish; pĕrīre Ðæt eall Egipta land mót forwurþan quod pĕrierit Ægyptus, Ex. 10, 7: Mt. Bos. 8, 25: Hy. 7, 112; Hy. Grn. ii. 289, 112

Linked entry: for-weorþan

Cumere

(n.)
Grammar
Cumere, (-as ?); pl.
Entry preview:

Cumber-land in Dict

ge-irfeweardian

(v.)
Entry preview:

., and add Cynren his geyrfeweardað ( hereditabit ) land, Ps. L. 24, 13. Geyrfweardiað hereditabant, 36, 11

Linked entry: ge-yrfeweardian

ge-werian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-werian, p. ede, ode; pp. ed, od.

to defendprotecttake care ofmake [land] free from claimsdefendĕreprocurareto associate with for the cause of defenceto make a treaty withassŏciāre defensiōnis causajungere fœdĕre

Entry preview:

to defend, protect, take care of, make [land] free from claims; defendĕre, procurare Ic gewerige defendo, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 6; Som. 32, 29. Se ðe land gewerod hæbbe he who has defended land, L. C. S. 80; Th. i. 420, 19.

wæstm-bǽre

(adj.)
Grammar
wæstm-bǽre, adj.

Fruitful, fertile, productive

Entry preview:

Wæstm*-*bǽru fecunda, 38, 22. referring to inanimate things Ðæt wæstm*-*bǽre land campi uberes, Ors. 1, 3;Swt. 32, 2. Sceáwiaþ ðæt land, hwæðer hit wæstmbǽre sí considerate terram, qualis sit, bona an mala, humus pinguis an sterilis, Num. 13, 19.

þri-milce

(n.)
Grammar
þri-milce, es; m. (?)

The early name for the month of May

Entry preview:

Ðonne Drymelces mónað bið geendod ðonne bið seó niht eahta tída lang, 87, 28. Ðrymylce mónað, Chr. Erl, Introd. xxxi, margin

Linked entries: meolcian -milce

swǽr

(adj.)
Grammar
swǽr, swǽre, and swár; adj. [Halliwell gives sweer unwilling as a Northumbrian word, and swere dull, heavy, as a Durham one. In Jamieson's Dictionary the forms sweir, swere, sweer, swear are given with meanings lazy, indolent; unwilling; unwilling to give.]
Entry preview:

heavy as a burden, of great weight (lit. or fig.), oppressive Swǽr is seó byrðen ðe Godes bydel beran sceall, gif hé nele georne unriht forbeódan, L. I. P. 5; Th. ii. 308, 35: Wulfst. 178, 8. Hé bið deófles tempel, and byrð swíðe swǽre byrðene on his

Linked entry: swár

ge-ríp

Entry preview:

Fela landa wuniað gyt on hǽðenscipe and úres Hǽlendes geríp mænigfeald is on mancynne, Hml. S. 29, 128.

innor

Entry preview:

Férde hé forð ... in þá inran land ...; þá gít hé wilnode ꝥ hé innor férde, Hml. S. 30, 310. Hine seó ýð gegráp and hine fram lande innor áteáh quem unda rapuit et eum a terra introrsus traxit, Gr.

treów-gewrid

(n.)
Grammar
treów-gewrid, es; n.
Entry preview:

A thicket of trees Ys on Bretone land sum fenn unmǽtre mycelnesse . . . Ðǽr synd . . . manige eáland and hreód and beorhgas and treowgewrido, Guthl. 3; Gdwin. 20, 7

Linked entry: ge-wrid

hócor-wyrde

(adj.)
Grammar
hócor-wyrde, adj.

Using scornful, mocking language

Entry preview:

Using scornful, mocking language Hér sind on earde hócorwyrde ǽghwǽr there are in the land here everywhere men of scornful speech, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 109, 156

Angel

(n.)
Grammar
Angel, gen. dat. acc. Angle; f.

Anglen in Denmark, the country between Flensburg and the Schley from which the Angles came into BritainAngulus, nomen terræ quam Angli ante transitum in Britanniam coluerunt

Entry preview:

Ðæt land, ðe man Angle hǽt the land, which is called Anglen, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 18, 37. Hí ðá sendon to Angle they then sent to Anglen, Chr. 449; Th. 20, 12

teón-word

(n.)
Grammar
teón-word, es; n.
Entry preview:

A word that conveys reproach, insult, abuse, calumny; a word that does wrong Hig tǽldon ðæt land mid heora teónwordum they slandered the land with their calumnies, Num. 13, 33.

þán

Entry preview:

Add: watered, having water (of land) 'Geýc mé ꝥ and syle mé þán land.' Þá sealde se fæder hire þán and leóht bufan and þán and leóht beneoðan ... Seó sáwel bideð æt ðám fæder þánes landes and wǽtes 'junge irriguam (terram)'.

swítan

(v.)
Grammar
swítan, (?); p. swát in for-swítan
Entry preview:

to exhaust, impair, impoverish land (?) Ðe lond æt Moran ic mid míne wífe bigat, and ic it siðen náwer ne forswát (-swác?) ne forspilde, Chart. Th. 584, 5

deád-wille

(adj.)
Grammar
deád-wille, adj.
Entry preview:

Unproductive, barren Ðá beorgas tódǽlað ꝥ wæsmbǽre land and þæt deádwylle sand mons dividit inter vivam terram et arenas, Ors. 1, 1; S. 26, 19. Cf. cwic-wille

Egipte

Entry preview:

(e)na Egiptena land, Angl. viii. 322, 3. Egiptna, Nar. 34, 34: 35, 20. Geseah ic miccle meniu Affricána and Egypta, Hml. S. 23 b, 346