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fiþer-ríca

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Ox. 1799. Philippus se fyðerríca, Hml. Th. i. 364, 30. Take here fyþper-ríca in Dict. and add

for-scyldig

(adj.)
Grammar
for-scyldig, adj.

wicked ⬩ flagitious

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Ox. 4707. On forscyldegodum (-scyldigum, v. l.) monnan, Hml. A. 58, 170

ge-miscan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-miscan, ge-myscan
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Ox. 17, 47. v. miscan

Linked entries: mis-can ge-myscan

getimber-hálgung

(n.)
Grammar
getimber-hálgung, e; f.
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Ox. 56, 287

loþa

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Ox. 3725

Linked entry: hloþa

ongeán-hworfenness

(n.)
Grammar
ongeán-hworfenness, e; f.
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Ox. 2713

Linked entries: -hworfen-ness geán-hworfennis

smitta

(n.)
Grammar
smitta, l. smitte; f.
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Ox. 3491. Sió sáwl sceal nýde habban smittan þæs líchoman unþeáwa, 648, note

streóna

(n.)
Grammar
streóna, strína, an; m.
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Ox. 27, 1. Cf. Streóna as a nickname of Eádríc, the treacherous alderman of Mercia

Linked entry: strína

wiþ-ceósan

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Ox. 61, 27. Add

á-tyhtung

(n.)

intention ⬩ intentio ⬩ incentive

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Ox. 2, 304

tó-sceádan

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Ox. 441

æþele

(adj.)
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Ox. 2082

Linked entry: æþel

á-smeágan

to investigate, ⬩ to find out by investigation ⬩ devise

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Ox. 5101

Linked entry: smeágan

cwiddian

(v.)
Grammar
cwiddian, cweddian, cwydian (q. v. in Dict.); p. ode, ede
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Ox. 1881) ł secgcað contendunt, dicunt, Hpt. Gl. 450, 70. Þá hí cweddiað (cwyddiaþ, An. Ox. 1953) quam dicunt, 452, 43. Cwedd(iað), cwyddiað ferunt, dicunt, 504, 60. Befrán hé hú woruldmenn be him cwyddedon . . .

Linked entry: cweddian

ge-hendnys

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Ox. 2713. of kinship, relationship, propinquity Gehendnys propinquitas, An. Ox. 4180

níþ-full

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Ox. 2963. Níðfulle (printed hið-) hí synd, grame hí synd odiosi sunt, molesti sunt, Scint. 3, 4. Níþfulra swicful feónda gereónung liuidorum (i. inuidorum) fraudulenta emulorum factio, An. Ox. 2240

an-filt

(n.)
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Ox. 53, 33 : Wrt. Voc. i. 34, 56: cudo, 286, 77 : ii. 16, 72. Anfilt, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 60, 8: 178, ll. Ómiges anfiltes scabrae incudis. An. Ox. 479. Anfealte onsméðre, ii. 67

brægden

(v.; adj.; part.)
Grammar
brægden, bregden.
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Ox. 8, 84. Brǽdnes, 7, 54: Angl. xiii. 29, 39. (The passage to which all these refer is glossed by swicfulles, An. Ox. 732.) Þǽr man gecnáwan can ꝥ þǽr bregden bið (that there has been fraud), Ll. Th. i. 390, 13.

clæfre

Grammar
clæfre, l. clǽfre, dele 'n.' (in Lch. ii. 312, 20 reád clǽfre is nominative), and add:, clǽfer (?), cláfre. [From clǽfre comes claver (remaining only in dialects), from cláfre comes clover]
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Ox. 56, 429. Cleáfre, Lch. iii. 305, col. 2. Clǽfra fetta, Wrt. Voc. ii. 38, 47. Cláfrena (clǽfran, An. Ox. 94) caltarum, 75, 22

ge-ríman

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Ox. 3832. Add: —

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