slítan
To slit, tear, rend ⬩ to tear a garment ⬩ rend ⬩ to tear, split, rend, cleave, divide ⬩ to tear, rend, as an animal does with the teeth or feet, a bird with its beak, ⬩ to tear, bite ⬩ irritate ⬩ to tear ⬩ to destroy, waste, consume ⬩ to carp at, back-bite ⬩ to tear ⬩ attero ⬩ to tear, split ⬩ to tear, break ⬩ scindere, lacerare, laniare, lacessere, saevire, delere ⬩ to slit, tear, break
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Similar entries v. slite II., slítung Fótum ic fére, foldan slíte Exon. Th. 393, 17; Rä 13, 1. Hrefn hine slíteþ 329, 20; Vy. 37. Hine se wulf slíteþ 342, 27; Gn. Ex. 148. Hé (the evil spirit) bítes and slítes hine Mk. Skt. Rush. 9, 18.
a-slídan
To slide or slip away ⬩ labare
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To slide or slip away; labare Ne aslít his fót non supplantabuntur gressus ejus, Ps. Th. 36, 31. Ðæt mín fór asliden wǽre motus est pes meus, 93, 17. Asliden beón labi, Scint.13, 24, 78
Linked entry: aslád
slítness
a tearing, rending, laceration ⬩ a wasting, destroying, desolation
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a tearing, rending, laceration Similar entries v. slítan, IV. Ða slítnysse gedígean a laceratione (by wolves or dogs) convalescere L. Ecg. C. 40; Th. ii. 166, 25. a wasting, destroying, desolation Similar entries v. slítan, VI Slítnese desolationis
snǽdan
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Add: [Mid seaxum tósnǽdod, H. R. N. 28, 5.]
slífan
To slive ⬩ findo, effisso ⬩ avulsio, abscissio ⬩ slice
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To slive ('Slive to cut, slip, or slicc off. . . Palsgrave, "I slyve a gylowfloure or any other floure from his branche or stalke."' Baker, Northants Gloss.)
Linked entry: sléfan
fram-slítnes
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in Dict
slá-wyrm
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A slow-worm, blind-worm (cf. a slaworme cecula, Cath. Angl. 343), a kind of snake: — Sláwyrm stellio, Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 25: 78, 60: spalangius, 24, 27: Hpt. Gl. 450, 26: regulus (cf. regulus est serpens, avis, et rex parvulus omnis, Wrt. Voc. i. 221, 9
slá-wyrm
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Eal swá sláwyrm (regulus) áttru hit tósend, Scint. 105, 9. Add
sliccan
to strike, slap
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Gif hwilc slicþ eacniende wíf 21, 22. (cf. colloquial lick = to beat. Halliwell gives slick as an Oxfordshire word for a blow, slap)
Linked entry: slic
slípan
⬩ he slips off ⬩ to move freely, as any weighty body which is dragged through a mire ⬩ labi
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To slip, glide
Linked entries: slépan slípe-scóh slýpan
tó-sleán
To strike to pieces, ⬩ knock to bits ⬩ to demolish, ⬩ knock down a building ⬩ to divide in two by a blow or stroke ⬩ to drive away thoughts
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To strike to pieces, knock to bits Tóslóg, tislóg concidit, Txts. 51, 516. Tóslóh, forheów concidit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 16. of material objects, to demolish, knock down a building þunor tóslóg heora hiéhstan godes hús aedes salutis ictu fulminis disfoluta
from-slitnis
Desolation ⬩ desolatio
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Desolation; desolatio, Mk. Skt. Rush. and Lind. 13, 14
Linked entry: slítness
ge-sleán
To strike ⬩ pitch [a tent] ⬩ smite ⬩ slay ⬩ quell ⬩ forge ⬩ fight ⬩ obtain by fighting
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To strike, pitch [a tent], smite, slay, quell, forge, fight, obtain by fighting Hí lágon swylce hí wǽron deáþe geslegene they lay as if they were stricken by death, Judth. 10; Thw. 21, 23; Jud. 31. Se geslagena biþ mid deáþe gegripen the man stricken
Linked entry: ge-slóh
slífan
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slífan
To slip or put a garment on a person ⬩ to dress carelessly ⬩ A garment rumpled up about any part of the person ⬩ a snore slop worn by bankers or navigators
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To slip or put a garment on a person Hé hine sylfne ungyrede, and ðæt reáf ðe hé on hine hæfde hé sléfde on ðone foresprecenan man . . . Sóna swá hé mid ðan hrægle swá miccles weres gegyred wæs Guthl. 16; Gdwin. 68, 18.
Linked entry: slífe-scóh
slǽd
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and add Andlang slades, C. D. v. 379, 19. Sleades, 70, 26. On slade . . . eft on sled, 286, 27-34. Of sleade, iii. 384, 28. v. wæter-, wíþig-slæd
slincan
to crawl ⬩ to slink away ⬩ repere, reptare
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Hé gescóp eall wyrmcynn and creópende and fleógende and swymmende and slincgende Anglia viii. 310, 17. fig. to slink away Se earma flýhþ uncræftiga slǽp slincan on hinder Dóm. L. 240
be-slógon
bereft
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bereft, Cd. 4; Th. 4, 17; Gen. 55; Similar entries p. of be-sleán
wiþ-sleán
To counteract
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To counteract Hí woldon ðæra hálgena líc besencan on flóde, ac se ælmihtiga Scyppend wiðslóh ðam unrǽde, Homl. Skt. ii. 29, 324