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box

(n.)
Grammar
box, es; m? n? [box the box-tree]

A wooden case made of box-wood, a BOX ⬩ buxom, pyxis ⬩ a box

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Hundteontig boxa a hundred [of] boxes, Jn. Bos. 19, 39

neáh-west

Grammar
neáh-west, <b>. I.</b>
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Binnan ánes geáres fyrste næs gemét hǽðengild geond hundteóntig míla-neáwiste ( for a hundred miles round), Hml. Th. i. 562, 27. Add Ic wolde þaet hý mínre neáwiste wilnedon and þíne forhogedon, Wlfst. 255, 17.

cyrce

(n.)
Grammar
cyrce, gen. cyrcan, cyrcean; f.

A church ⬩ ecclesia

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A church; ecclesia Seó cyrce mid hire portice mihte fíf bund manna eáðelíce befón on hire rýmette the church with her porch could easily contain in its space five hundred men, Homl.

Linked entry: cyrc

lǽð

(n.)

a lathe

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Kent is divided into six lathes], a district containing several hundreds, v. Stubbs; Const. Hist. i. l00.

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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He [Xersis] hæfde scipa ðæra mycclena dulmúna in M and ii hund he [Xerxes] had one thousand two hundred of the large ships, dulmunus, Ors. 2, 5; Bos. 46, 32, 33. v.

wǽpen-getæc

(n.)
Grammar
wǽpen-getæc, -tak, es; n.

A wapentake,

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A wapentake, a term used in northern England where in the south hundred was used: &#39;Quod alii vocant hundredum, supradicti comitatus (counties northward from Northamptonshire) vocant wapentagium,&#39; L. Ed. C. 30; Th. i. 455.

ge-tellan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-tellan, ic -telle, ðú -telest, he -teleþ, pl. -tellaþ; p. -tealde, pl. -tealdon; pp. -teald, -teled

To tell ⬩ number ⬩ reckon ⬩ esteem ⬩ consider ⬩ ascribe ⬩ assign ⬩ numerare ⬩ computare ⬩ reputare ⬩ comparare ⬩ dinumerare

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Tyn hund geteled ten hundred in number, Cd. 154; Th. 192, 15; Exod. 232: Andr. Kmbl. 1329; An. 665: Ps. Th. 90, 7

Linked entry: ge-talian

gúþ-fana

(n.)
Grammar
gúþ-fana, -fona, an; m.

A military standard, ensign, banner ⬩ signum vexillum

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Ðǽr wǽron vii hund gúþfanena genumen there were seven hundred standards taken, 4, 1; Bos. 77, 29; Th. Chart. 430, 1. Under gúþfanum under the standards, Judth. 11; Thw. 24, 32; Jud. 219

Cásern

(n.)
Grammar
Cásern, e; f. [Cásere + en, f. termin. Cáseren, Cásern]
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He [Cásere] wearþ Rómánum swá leóf, and swá weorþ, ðæt hí hine nánuht ne héton búton fæder; and, him to weorþscype, hí héton his wíf, cásern [cásere + en, the f. termin.] eight hundred and sixty-seven years after the building of Rome, Hadrian succeeded

ge-hlinian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-hlinian, ge-hleonian; p. ode.
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L. 17, 7. of; things, to rest, lie Ðám godwebbe ðióstro ne magon cxxtigum míla neáh gehleonian darkness cannot lie within a hundred and twenty miles of that curtain . Sal. K. 152, 20

ceáp-stów

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Nis se man on lífe, ðe ǽfre gehýrde ðæt man crafode hine on hundrede oððon áhwár on gemóte, on ceápstówe oþþe on cyricware, Lch. iii. 288, 5. Ceápstówa nundinarum. Wrt. Voc. 79, 81: 59, 63.

HREÁW

(adj.)
Grammar
HREÁW, hrǽw [also written hreów]; adj.

RAW ⬩ uncooked

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Ete ðara hundteóntig hreáwra eat a hundred of them [lentils] raw, L. M. 2, 13; Lchdm. ii. 190, 17. Meng wið hreáw ægru mix with raw eggs, 1, 39; Lchdm. ii. 102, 7. Gif hí mon hreáwe swylgeþ if they are swallowed raw, L.

Linked entry: hreów

scrid

(n.)
Grammar
scrid, es; n.
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Screoda siex hun[dred]a six hundred chariots (cf. Exod. 14, 7), Exon. Th. 468, 9; Phar. 5. Lígbǽrum scridum vel crætum flammigeris quadrigis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 14

Linked entry: scriða

six-hynde

(adj.)
Grammar
six-hynde, adj.
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Of a class whose wergild is six hundred shillings Gif wealh hafaþ fíf hýda hé biþ sixhynde, L. In. 24; Th. i. 118. 10. Be syxhyndum men. Gif hit sié syxhynde mon, [gielde] ǽlc mon . lx. scił ł. , L. Alf. pol. 30; Th. i. 80, 11.

Linked entry: -hynde

cempa

(n.)
Grammar
cempa, an; m. [camp war, battle, -a, q. v.]

A soldier, warrior, CHAMPION ⬩ miles, bellator, athleta = ἀθλητής

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Twá hund cempna [ = cempena] two hundred [of] soldiers: manipulus, Ælfc. Gl. 7; Som. 56, 75; Wrt. Voc. 18, 27. Fíf hund cempena ealdor a commander of five hundred soldiers; cohors, 7; Som. 56, 61; Wrt. Voc. 18, 14

Linked entry: cæmpa

Bryten

(n.)
Grammar
Bryten, Bryton, Briten, Breoten, Breoton, Broten, Brittan, Britten, Brytten; gen. dat. acc. e; f. acc. also as nom.

BRITAIN ⬩ Britannia, Cambria

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BRITAIN; Britannia, Cambria Brytene ígland is ehta hund míla lang the island of Britain is eight hundred miles long, Chr. Th. 3, l, col. l: 3, 10, col. I. 3.

Linked entries: Breoten Breoton Breten Briten Broten Bryt-land Bryton Brytten

á-gán

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D. iv. 56, 27. to come out, become known Hé létt ágán út hú fela hundred hýda wǽron innon þǽre scíre he made it come out how many hundred hides there were in the shire , Chr. 1085; P. 216, 18

Linked entry: á-gangan

HLÁF

(n.)
Grammar
HLÁF, es; m.

Bread, ⬩ food, ⬩ a loaf

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Th. ii. 264. 3. cxx. huǽtenra hláfa and xxx. clénra one hundred and twenty wheaten loaves and thirty made without bran, 460, 16. cxx gesuflra hláfa, 32: 469, 3.

hundteóntigoþa

(num.; adj.)
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hundredth Se hundteóntigoða centesimus, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 283, 14. Se hundteóntigeþa-and-twá-and-feówertigeþa. R. Ben. 37, 23.

geár-dagas

(n.)
Grammar
geár-dagas, pl. m. [geár, dæg]

YORE-DAYS ⬩ days of yore ⬩ days of years ⬩ time of life ⬩ dies antīqui ⬩ annōrum dies

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Gen. 47, 9, &#39; The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years.&#39;]

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