carl-mann
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Gif hwilc carlman hǽmde wið wimman hire unðances, Chr. 1086; P. 220, 17. Add
case-bill
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a sceptre? Casebill clauam i. gestam̄ (for ? cáserbill gestamen; gestamen sceptrum, Migne: billus baculus, claua oblonga, ib.: so cáser-bill might be compared with cyne-gird), Germ. 394, 285
cǽg-bora
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Add: one who has charge of the keys of a jail, jailor Cǽgbora clavicularius. Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 45: ii. 17, 11. Sc̃s Heremus wæs cǽgbora in Róme, Shrn. 121, 23. [Cf. N. E. D. key-bearer.] Cf. cǽg-hirde
cǽg-loca
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Dele: 'The action . . . key-locking.' The cǽglocan in the passage are the repositories which the wife could lock up with keys (v. cǽg supra); if the stolen property were not put into these, the keys of which were in her keeping, she was to be held guiltless
camp-lic
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Military Camplic meniu a body of soldiers, Hml. S. 31, 1237. Camplicere mihte tribunicae potestatis, An. Ox. 11, 156: 12, 9. Réþe, camplice tyrannici (militonum commanipulares), 858
camp-weorud
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Ðæt compweorod (-uearod, L.) cohors , Jn. R. 18, 12. Þæs hiofoncundan compwerodes caelestis militiae, Lch. i. lxviii, 5. Ymbseald mid þon heofonlican campweorode, Bl. H. 11, 24. Add
camp-wísa
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A superintendent of public games; agonotheta, Hpt. Gl. 405, 4
ge-camp
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Add Gecampe bello, Wülck. Gl. 248, 13. warfare, battle. literal Cempa þe on nánum gecampe náht ðegenlices ne gefremode, Hml. Th. i. 342, 5. Iulianus wolde neádian preóstas tó woruldlicum gecampe, Hml. S. 25, 834. fig. spiritual warfare Hí sceolon mid
hors-camb
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Hé sceal habban horscamb and sceára, Angl. ix. 263, 8. Add
of-calen
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Utan hlýwan ofcalene and wǽfan nacode and syllan mete þám gehingredum, Wlfst. 119, 6. Add
weorold-camp
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-Gif hwilc preósthádes manna hine gebeóde silfne tó woroldcampe (militię seculari), Chrd. 97, 8. Add
of-calen
very cold
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very cold Petrus stód ofcalen on ðam cauertúne, Homl. Th. ii. 248, 27
Linked entry: calan
searu-cǽg
An insidious key
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An insidious key Flánþracu feorh onleác searocǽgum gesóht (of the insidious attacks of disease), Exon. Th. 170, 27; Gú. 1118
cald-heort
Cold-hearted, unfeeling, cruel ⬩ frigidus cordis, inhumanus, crudelis
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Cold-hearted, unfeeling, cruel; frigidus cordis, inhumanus, crudelis Cirmdon caldheorte the cold-hearted cried out, Andr. Kmbl. 275 An. 1, 8
camp-wǽpen
a battle-weapon, military weapon
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a battle-weapon, military weapon
Linked entry: comp-wǽpen
a-calan
To become cold ⬩ algere ⬩ frigescere
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To become cold; algere, frigescere Nó acól for ðý egesan he never became cold for the terror, Andr. Grm. 1267
ác-cærn
an acorn
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an acorn
hunig-camb
Honey-comb
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Honey-comb Hunigcamb teáres favum nectaris, Lchdm. ii. 396, col. 1
Linked entry: camb
care-líce
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