Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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dúre-þínen

(n.)

a female door-keeper

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Bos. 18,6

díhlíce

(adv.)

secretly

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Bos. 1, 19: 24, 3

for-slagen

(v.; part.)
Grammar
for-slagen, pp. of for-sleán.

slain

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slain, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 62, 10;

for-slóh

(v.; part.)
Grammar
for-slóh, p. of for-sleán.

slew

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slew, Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 33, 34;

for-wurdon

(v.)
Grammar
for-wurdon, p. pl. of for-weorþan.

perished

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perished, Ors. 1, 7; Bos. 30, 31;

bí-gyrdel

(n.)

a girdle, purse

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Bos. 10, 9

Linked entry: gyrdel

ge-drync

(n.)

drinking

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drinking, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 22, 25

ge-fædred

(v.)
Grammar
ge-fædred, part.

Fathered

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Fathered, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 60, 19

Linked entry: -fædred

brýme

(adj.)

famous

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famous, Ors. 2, 2; Bos. 41, 30

ge-sýclian

(v.)

to be infirm,

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Bos. 4, 46

háls

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In l. after 'forgeaf' add: gefreóde and gefreoðade folc under wolcnum, and at end: v. mund-heáls: <b>háls-bóc</b>. v. heáls-bóc: <b>halscod</b>

brice

(n.)
Grammar
brice, bryce, es; m. [from briceþ, brycþ, pres. of brecan to break ]

A breaking, rupture, fracture, fragment, violation, breach ⬩ fractio, ruptura, fractura, fragmentum, violatio

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Bos. 24, 35. We witon ful georne, ðæt to miclan bryce sceal micel bót nýde id compertum est nobis, immanis ubi facta est ruptura, ibi opus esse, ut large resarciatur, Lupi Serm. i. 3; Hick. Thes. ii. 99, 30.

Linked entry: bryce

FISC

(n.)
Grammar
FISC, es; pl. nom. acc. fiscas, fixas, fisceas; gen. fisca, fixa; dat. fiscum, fixum; m.

A FISH ⬩ piscis

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Bos. 5, 6: Mt. Bos. 15, 34: Mk. Bos. 6, 43: 8, 7. Hí geféngon þreó hund fixa missenlícra cynna they caught three hundred fishes of diverse kinds, Bd. 4, 13; S. 583, 1.

Linked entry: fen-fixas

BITER

(adj.)
Grammar
BITER, bitor, bitter, bittor; g. m. n. biteres, bitres, bittres; f. bitre; sup. biteresta, bitresta; adj.

BITTER, sharp, severe, dire ⬩ amarus, acerbus, acer, dirus, atrox

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Hí béheóldon bogan [MS. boga], þing [þingc MS.] biter intenderunt arcum, rem amaram, Ps. Spl. 63, 3: Ps. Th. 78, 5. Bitter, Exon. 82 a; Th. 309, 10; Seef. 55. Bittor, Exon. 47 a; Th. 161, 13; Gú. 958.

Linked entries: bitter bittor

ge-sceót

(n.)
Grammar
ge-sceót, es; n.

shooting, hurling ⬩ rapid movement as of anything shot

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Similar entries v. gesceot ge mid stána torfungum both with shootings and flingings of stones, Ors. 3, 9: Bos, 68, 19. rapid movement as of anything shot Ða wǽmna flugon mid swiftum gesceóte on heora fínd the weapons flew with swift movement on to their

borh

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</b> what is given as security Fó tó þam borge sé þe þæs weddes waldend sý, Ll. Th. i. 254, 21. add: of a body of persons Hér swutelað seó gewitnes and se borh þe þǽr æt wǽron ( here follows a list of names ), C. D. iv. 235, 19

ENGEL

(n.)
Grammar
ENGEL, ængel, angel, engyl; gen. engles; dat. engle; pl. nom. acc. englas, engel; gen. engla; dat. englum; m. An ANGEL, a messenger; angelus = ἄγγελος
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Bos. 2, 10: 1, 13 : Mt. Bos. 28, 5 : Gen. 22, 12. Godes engel stód on emn hí the angel of God stood before them, Homl. Th. i. 30, 15, 17: Mt. Bos. 1, 20, 24: Jn. Bos. 5, 4. Ðæt mæg engel ðín eáþ geferan that thine angel may more easily travel. Andr.

Linked entries: ængel Angel angel Angle englas engyl

DUMB

(adj.)
Grammar
DUMB, def. se dumba, seó, ðæt dumbe; adj.

DUMB, speechless, mute ⬩ mūtus, e-linguis

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Bos. 9. 33: Lk. Bos, 11, 14. Dumbes elinguis, Glos. Prudent. Recd. 143, 1. Híg brohton him dumbne man obtŭlērunt ei hŏmĭnem mūtum, Mt. Bos. 9, 32: Mk. Bos. 9, 17: Ex. 4, 11.

æftyr

after ⬩ according to ⬩ secundum

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Bos. 9, 29

áðer

(pronoun.)

either ⬩ alter

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either; alter, Ors. 3, 9; Bos. 68, 11

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