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hǽl

Grammar
hǽl, omen.
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Nǽfre on aldordagnm ǽr ne siððan heardran hǽle healþegnas fand never in all the days of his life, before or since, less auspiciously (cf. Icel. íllu heilli malo augurio ; m evil hour) did he come upon hall-thanes, B. 719. Add

hǽl

(n.)
Grammar
hǽl, e; f.

Health, safety, salvation, happinesssalusgood, luck, happinesssalus

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Héht Elenan hǽl ábeódan he bade them greet Elene, Elen. Kmbl. 2004; El 1003 : Beo. Th. 1311; B. 653. Ðíne hǽle syle salutare tuum da, Ps. Th. 84, 6

hál

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Gif slǽpð, byþ hál ( saluus ), Jn. 11, 12. Dryhten wine sínne grétte, . . . héht his líchoman háles brúcan . . . Árás þá mægene róf . . . hál, næs him gewemmed wlite, . . . bán gebrocen, An. 1472. Hálne valentem sospitem (Ald, 40, 1), Wrt.

hama

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Hér cóm in gangan in spíder (inspíder?) wiht hæfde him his haman on handa, Lch. iii. 42, 12

hát

(n.)
Grammar
hát, es; n.

Heatfervor, æstus

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Hát þrowian to suffer heat, Beo. Th. 5204; B. 2605

HÁD

(n.)
Grammar
HÁD, es; m.

personpersonasexdegree, rank, order, conditionstate, condition, kind, nature, formmanner, wayhonourpersona, sexus, ordo, gradus.

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The first person is he who speaks about himself alone . . . The second person is he whom the first speaks to . . . The third person is he about whom the first person speaks to the second person, Ælfc. Gr. 22; Som. 23, 49-53.

hǽs

(n.)
Grammar
hǽs, e; f.

A command, hest, behest

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A command, hest, behest Hǽs jussio, Ælfc. Gr. 9; Som. 8, 40. Gehír God mín gebed exaudi Deus orationem meam. On ðysum is gebed and ná hǽs hear my prayer, O God. In this there is a prayer, not a command, Ælfc.

Linked entry: be-hǽs

hál

(adj.)
Grammar
hál, adj.

Whole, hale, well, in good health, sound, safe, without fraud, honest; often used in salutation

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Se biþ hál geworden he shall be saved, Blickl. Homl. 21, 36. þurh ðæt sóna wearþ hál geworden he was at once by that restored to health, 223, 26.

Linked entry: hǽl

hár

(adj.)
Grammar
hár, adj.

Hoar, hoary, grey, oldcanus

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geseah sumne hárne stán he saw a grey stone, Blickl. Homl. 209, 32: Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 313. 26: Beo. Th. 1779; B. 887. Hárne middengeard canescentem mundum, Mt. Kmbl. p. i, 5.

hæt

(n.)
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Camb on hætte oððe on helme erista, 19, 10. Eówre hættas mitrę, 55, 21: 70. Haetas mitras, Txts. 113, 75

hæt

(n.)
Grammar
hæt, hætt, es; m.

A hat, covering for the headpileus, mitra, tiaraa hood, cowlhat

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A hat, covering for the head; pileus, mitra, tiara Fellen hæt galerus vel pileus, Ælfc. Gl. 18; Som. 58, 111; Wrt. Voc. 22, 26. Hæt calamanca, Wrt. Voc. 41, 8 : capitium, 74, 57.

Linked entry: hætt

Snotinga-hám

(n.)

Nottingham

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Nottingham Hér fór se ilca here innan Mierce tó Snotengahám (Snotinghám, MS. E.) Chr. 868; Erl. 72, 21. Fór tó Snotingahám and gefór ða burg and hét hié gebétan and gesettan ǽgðer ge mid Engliscum mannum ge mid Deniscum 922; Erl. 108, 30.

hæc

(n.)
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A hatch, heck, [hatch a gate or wicket; a flood-gate or sluice; a contrivance for trapping salmon: heck a grating or frame of parallel bars . . . used to catch fish at a weir, N. E. D.]

hama

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In l. 6 dele 'in spíder (inspíder?)'

-hád

(suffix)
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Add: with nouns. marking condition of life, weorold-hád. cf. hád. <b>III. 1.</b> with nouns of persons, marking natural condition, cild -, cniht-. fǽmn-, hægsteald-, mægden-, mægþ-, man-, wer-, wíf- hád. cf. <b>III. 2 a.</b> marking

hæb

Similar entry: hæf

hæf

(n.)
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what is lifted, v. hand-hæf

hár

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Add: grey-haired with age, old Wæs fród cyning, hár hilderinc, on hreón móde, B. 1307: By. 169: Chr. 937; P. 108, 20. Ic ( a plough) geonge swá mé wísað hár holtes feónd (the grey-haired ploughman ?, the enemy of the holt, because the wood has to be

hás

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Ic swanc hrýmende (clypiende, Ps. Rdr., Spl., Srt.), háse gewordene synt míne góman, Ps. L., Rdr., Spl., Srt. 68, 4. Add

hát

(n.)
Grammar
hát, a promise.
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ꝥ hát fadores promissum patris, Lk. p. 11, 14. Add