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Anglo-Saxon

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leá

Similar entry: leó

-lecg

(suffix)

Similar entry: ge-lecg

líft

Similar entry: lyft-wynn

lind

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Add: I. Lindan tilię, An. Ox. 2, 8. In ðá geápan linde, C. D. iii. 375, 5. II Stód under linde, under leóhtum scylde, Lch. iii. 52, 19

lang-lífe

(adj.)
Grammar
lang-lífe, -líf; adj.

Long-lived

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Langlífe hé biþ he shall live long, Lchdm. iii. 184, 4

list

(n.)
Grammar
list, es; m: list, e; f.

Art ⬩ skill ⬩ craft ⬩ cunning ⬩ artifice

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List art (of poetry), Bt. Met. Fox Introd. 5; Met. Einl. 3: Exon. 79 a; Th. 296, 13; Crä. 50. Þurh ealle list, 27 a; Th. 81, 5; Cri. 1319.

líf-bysig

(adj.)
Grammar
líf-bysig, adj.
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Busy about saving life, struggling for life, anxious about life Ðæt hé for mundgripe mínum scolde licgean lífbysig bútan his líce swice that for my handgrip he should lie struggling for life, unless his body should escape, Beo. Th. 1936; B. 966

lim-rǽden

(n.)
Grammar
lim-rǽden, The passage where this word is given as a gloss to chlamide is: Pro chlamide, quam angelicae puritatis liniamento . '. . adsciscebat, Ald. 35, 10. In Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 47, which refers to the same passage, liniamento is glossed by lim-gelecg : it is probable, then, that lim-rǽden is a gloss to liniamento rather than to chlamide, and has the same meaning as lim-gelecg (q. v.

a-grafen-líce

(n.; adv.)
Grammar
a-grafen-líce, an; n. [a-grafen carved, -lice a body]

That which is carved ⬩ a carved image ⬩ sculptile

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That which is carved, a carved image; sculptile He gebǽdon ðæt agrafenlíce adora verunt sculptile, Ps. Spl. 105, 19

deófol-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
deófol-líce, (deóf-); adv.
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as a devil. v. deófol-lic, <b>I </b>Antecríst áginð leógan deófollíce (deóflíce, v. l. ), Wlfst. 85, 1: 200, 1. like a devil, furiously, cruelly. v. deófol-lic, <b>II </b>Datianus deófollíce (deóflíce, v. l. ) geyrsode ongeán

Linked entry: deófel-líce

á-líf

(n.)
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everlasting life Þǽr bið eallum hálgum álíf sceapen, Först. Verc. 99, 2. Tó álífe gesceapen, 92, 15. [Icel. ei-lífi, -lífð.]

deád-líce

(adv.)
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Þá beóð ádwealde þe wénað þæt se man scyle deádlíce swyltan ( die and have no life after death ), efne swá nýten, Wlfst. 5, 9

hreóf-lig

(adj.)
Grammar
hreóf-lig, adj.

Leprous

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Láðlíc biþ ðæs hreóflian líc this leper betokened all mankind that was foully leprous ... Loathsome is the body of the leper, 16-21: 33. Wacode ealle ða niht mid ðam wædlian hreóflian. Homl. Swt. 3, 486. Reóflium menn gelíc like a leper, Homl.

Linked entries: hreóflia hreóf-líc

cym-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
cym-líce, l.
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cým-líce

alýfed-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
alýfed-líce, adv.

Lawfully ⬩ allowably

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Lawfully, allowably; licite:=a-lýfed allowed, líce; adv

líg-loccod

(adj.)
Grammar
líg-loccod, l.
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líg-loccode

sceam-lim

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printed scamescan lim) veretrum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 54. Add

cræftig-líce

(adv.)
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Substitute: Skilfully, cunningly, ingeniously Smiþ*-*líce fabrile, cræftig[líce] fabre, i. perfecte, ingeniose, artfficiose, Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 61. Smiþlíce fabrile, cræftiglíce fabre (MS. -i ), 35, 15. v. sundor-, wundor-cræftiglíce

lira

(n.)
Grammar
lira, an; m.

brawn

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Fleshy part of the body without fat or bone, brawn Lira pulpa vel viscum, Ælfc. Gl. 73; Som. 71, 37; Wrt. Voc. 44, 21. Lira pulpa, Wrt. Voc. 65, 17: 290, 48: ii. 76, 10. Sár þeóh and lira the thigh and the fleshy parts are sore, L.

horsc-líce

(adv.)
Grammar
horsc-líce, adv.
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[Hors[c]líce prudenter, Cot. 138, Lye. [O. H. Ger. horsc-lícho naviter, strenue, agiliter. ]

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