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Anglo-Saxon

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ELN

(n.)
Grammar
ELN, e; f.

the Royal

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An inch one 12th of a foot, and one 24th of an ell.

Linked entry: eln-gemet

GÁD

(n.; int.)
Grammar
GÁD, gǽd, es; n ?

A lackwantdesiredefectuspēnūriadesīdĕriumappĕtītus

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Ne wæs me in healle gád there was not a want to me in the hall, Exon. 94 a; Th. 353, 20; Reim. 15. Ne wyrþ inc wilna gǽd there shall not be to you two a lack of pleasures, Cd. 13; Th. 15, 21; Gen. 236.

ge-sendan

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In cummenum foreonfoeng, in gesendena embichta in venientibus praesumtio, in missis obsequium, p. 8, 2. with a sense of compulsion or violence, to send to prison, into exile, &c. Mæht gesenda ł tó gesendanne in tintergo, Lk. L. 12, 5.

sped-dropa

(n.)
Grammar
sped-dropa, (spéd- ?), an; m.

rheumydrop

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drop Mec (a book) fugles wyn (a pen) geond speddropum (ink) spyrede, Exon. Th. 408, 6; Rä. 27, 8

CYCENE

(n.)
Grammar
CYCENE, cicene,an; f.

A kitchen coquīna, culīna

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Wurpon hí ða anlícnysse inn to heora cycenan [MS. kycenan] they cast the image into their kitchen, ii. 166, 3. Gif ceorl hæfde cirican and cycenan [MS. kycenan] if a free man had a church and a kitchen, L. R. 2; Th. i. 190, 15

Linked entry: cicene

heaðu

(n.)
Grammar
heaðu, heaðo

war

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war; a word occurring only in compounds. The word is found in proper names in Icelandic, e.g. Höð the name of a Valkyria, Höðbroddr, Höðr the slayer of Baldr; and in O. H. Ger. e.g. Hadu-praht

gealg-treów

a gallow-tree

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Add: a gallow-tree (gallows-tree comes in only in the 19th cent. The older form remains in local names e. g. Gallowtree-gate in Leicester) Tó ðám galhtreówe on deópan dene, C. D. iii. 439, 12

tó-tellan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-tellan, p. -teled

To distinguish in countingcount separately

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in winter day.

hama

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In l. 6 dele 'in spíder (inspíder?)'

deáþ-denu

(n.)
Grammar
deáþ-denu, e; f.

The valley of death mortis vallis

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The valley of death; mortis vallis In ðisse deáþ-dene in this valley of death, Exon. 12 b; Th. 21, 33; Cri. 344. In ðas deáþdene in this death-vale, Exon. 61 b; Th. 226, 35; Ph. 416

stán-hol

(n.)
Grammar
stán-hol, es; n.
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A hole in rocks Hié (serpents and wild beasts) in stánholum hié selfe dígliaþ saxorum latebris occulta, Nar. 6, 1. Ðá flugon hié in ða wæter and hié ðǽr in ðám stánholum hýddon, 22, 13

ge-tweó

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tweó, gen. -tweón; m.

Doubtambiguity

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Doubt, ambiguity In gituiá in ambiguitate, Rtl. 105, 9

Linked entry: tweó

þorfendness

(n.)
Grammar
þorfendness, e; f.
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Poverty, destitution In ðorfendnisse in paupertate, Rtl. 105, 11

on-fealdan

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Ger. int-faldan explicare Add

citere

(n.)
Grammar
citere, citre, an; f.
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In citran in cythara, 42, 4: 70, 22. In citra, 32, 2

Linked entry: cytere

ge-lǽte

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Substitute: A place where roads meet, where one road opens into another. Cf. ge-lætan; Biuium twégra wega gelǽte, triuium þreóra wega gelǽtu, competum fela gelǽtu, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 31, 5-7. In twéga wega gelǽte in bino (= biuio, Mk. 11, 4), Wrt.

ambeht

(n.)
Grammar
ambeht, n.
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In cummenum foreonfoeng dearfscipes in gesendena embichta ðeódómes is in venientibus praesumtio temeritatis, in missis obsequium servitutis est, Mt. p. 8, 2

cwic-súsl

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Intó écere cwicsúsle, Wlfst. 289, 9. Uncyst hine besencte on cwycsúsle, Hml. Th. i. 328, 22. On deorce cwicsúsle in tetra tartara, An. Ox. 1249. Add

hilte

(n.)
Grammar
hilte, an; f.

A hilt, handle

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Swá ðæt ða hiltan eodon intó ðam innoþe the haft went in after the blade, Jud. 3, 22. Óþ ða hiltan capulotenus, Mone Gl.432

Linked entry: hilt

land-bóc

(n.)
Grammar
land-bóc, f.
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A charter in which land is granted Ðis is ðara xxv hída landbóc ðe Eádgár cyng gebócede Gode and Sca. Marian intó Abbandúne, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 29, 10. Ic wylle ðæt man ágyfe ðám híwum æt Domrahamme hyra landbéc, ii. 116, 35.