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Anglo-Saxon

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for-scríhan

Similar entry: screón

for-scunian

(v.)
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Dele

for-scytlic

(adj.)
Grammar
for-scytlic, adj.
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That may be shut or bolted Þǽre forscytlican dura vectifere valve, Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 55

Linked entry: -scytlic

for-þylman

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Add: <b>, -þylmian</b> to choke Þá máran wyrttruman beóð swýðe bittere on byrgincge, and hý habbaþ tó þám swýþlice mihte and frecenfulle ꝥ hý foroft hrædlíce þone man forþilmiaþ (-þilmað, v. l. ), Lch. i. 260, 13. Ðí lǽs strengð þǽre wyrte

for-tihtend

Similar entry: for-tyhtend

for-tín

(n.)
Grammar
for-tín, (?), es; n.
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A portent Bécun and fortína (béceno and fertíno, L.) signa et portenta, Mk. R. 13, 22

Linked entry: fer-tín

for-tog

(n.)
Grammar
for-tog, es; n.
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Gripes, colic Wiþ innan fortoge [innanfortoge?] and smælþearma ece, Lch. ii. 300, 27: 324, 8

Linked entry: tog

for-togen

Similar entry: for-teón

for-togian

(v.)
Grammar
for-togian, p. ode
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To contract Þá sina fortogiað, Lch. iii. 120, 8

Linked entry: togian

for-treding

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Múð dysiges fortredincg (contritio) his a fool's mouth is his destruction (Prov. 18, 7), Scint. 95, 10. Add

for-trendan

(v.)
Grammar
for-trendan, p. de
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To obstruct by rolling, stop an opening Hí námon swíðe micelne stán and fortrendon þǽre byrgenne duru they took a very big stone and stopped the sepulchre's mouth by rolling the stone to it, Nap. 62

Linked entry: trendan

for-tyhtan

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Faertyhted clinici, Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 14. Add

for-tyhtend

(n.)
Grammar
for-tyhtend, -igend, es; m.
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A seducer, an unchaste person Wrǽne fortyhtigend (-tiht- corruptor, Hpt. Gl. 484, 56) petulcus incestator i. maculator, An. Ox. 3337. Fortihtend clinice, i. lectus tetrus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 71

Linked entry: for-tihtend

for-wandigendlíce

(adv.)

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for-wel

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Forebeácn forwel manegum prodigium multis, Ps. L. 70, 7: Hml. S. 30, 7. Forwel oft interdum, i. aliquando, An. Ox, 3346. Add

Linked entry: wel

for-wénan

(v.)
Grammar
for-wénan, p. de
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To suspect, think ill of Forwéned suspecta, Nap. 25

for-wenedness

(n.)
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glosses insolentia Forwenednessa insolentiam, Nap. 25. v. preceding word

Linked entry: -wenedness

for-weornian

(v.)
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Forweornaþ (-wurnað, Hpt. Gl. 436, 53) marcescit, i. arescit, An. Ox, 1273. Hraðe se líchama áswint and forweornað, gif him oftogen bið his bigleofa, Hml. Th. i. 266, 3. Róme burh on hire sylfre forweornað (weosnað and brosnaþ, v. l., marcescet ], Gr.

for-wernedlíce

(adv.)

Similar entry: for-wirnedlíce

for-werod

Similar entry: for-wered

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