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here-gild

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Ic ðat só fele síðe só men gildeð hire gilde tó heregilde, C. D. vi. 205, 23. Ab illa magna heregoldi exactione quae per totam Angliam fuit, 180, II.

norþ

(adv.)
Grammar
norþ, adv.
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Fela hund manna hí námon, and lǽddon norð mid heom, 1064; P. 192, 9. Hit is án hund and syfan and fíftig mila lang súð and norð, Ors. 1, 1; S. 28, 8.

tówendan

(v.)
Grammar
tówendan, p. de

To overthrowupsetsubvertoverturnto overthrowdemolishto overthrowdestroyto destroy by changingto repeal a lawabrogateabolishoverthrowdestroy

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Mid þusend-feld wrenches he þe herte towendeð, O. E. Homl. ii. 191, 26

gnornan

(v.)
Grammar
gnornan, gnornian; p. ede, ode; pp. ed, od

To grievemournbe sadbewaillamentmœrere

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Gif hí fulle ne beóþ fela gnorniaþ si non fuerint saturati, et murmurabunt, Ps. Th. 58, 15. Ðæt wíf gnornode the woman mourned, Cd. 37; Th. 48, 4; Gen. 770: Beo. Th. 2239; B. 1117: Elen. Kmbl. 2518; El. 1260.

GRIM

(adj.)
Grammar
GRIM, adj.
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Sharp, bitter, severe, fell, fierce, dire, savage, cruel, GRIM, horrible; acer, immanis, sævus, crudelis, atrox, dirus He him æt his ende grim geweorþeþ and hine gelǽdeþ on éce forwyrd he [the devil] will become cruel to him at his end, and will lead

Linked entry: grym

scrýdan

(v.)
Grammar
scrýdan, p. de.
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Ne scríde nán wíf hig mid wǽpmannes reáfe, Deut. 22, 5. to clothe, to furnish with clothes, provide with clothes Hé scrýt mé wel and félt, Coll. Monast. Th. 22, 33. Gif æcyres weód God scrýt, Mt. Kmbl. 6, 30. Scrýtt, Lk. Skt. 12, 28.

Linked entry: -scrid

hádianv

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Hér mon hádode Byrnstán bisceop tó Wintanceastre, Chr. 931; P. 106, I. with acc. of office Ðá apostolas hæfdon him mid fela leorningchidta, of þám hí hádodon mæsse-preóstas and diáconas, Hml. Th. ii. 490, 25.

oþ-hrínan

(v.)
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Gif man mid unclǽnum handum hwylces metes onhríne, oððe him hund oððe catt oððe mús oðhríne se quis immundis manibus cibum aliquem tetigerit, vel canis, vel felis, vel mus tetigerit, Ll. Th. ii. 164, 9.

Linked entry: hrínan

orsorglíce

(adv.)
Grammar
orsorglíce, adv.

without anxietycarelessly, rashlysecurely, safely

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Sió nafu færþ micle fæstlícor and orsorglícor ðonne ða felgan, 39, 7 ; Fox 220, 30

un-rím

(adj.)
Grammar
un-rím, and un-ríme; adj.

Innumerableincalculablenot to be numberedan immense, incalculable good

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Wǽron on ðyssum felda unríme gesomminge erant in hoc campo innumera conventicula, S. 629, 24. Monige sindon geond middangeard, unrímu cynn, Exon.

ofer-brǽdan

(v.)

to overspread, overshadow, act as a covering overto overspread, put a covering over

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Sticmǽlum mid wuda oferwexen, sticmǽlum mid grénum felda oferbrǽded, Homl. Th. i. 508, 24. Mid ðy feó oferbrǽded and beþeaht, Blickl. Homl. 199, 3. Bewrigen and oferbrǽded mid baswe godwebbe, 207, 16.

Linked entries: of-brǽded fore-brǽdan

Gregorius

(n.)
Grammar
Gregorius, gen. Gregories; dat. Gregorie; acc. Gregorium; m.
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Felix, se eáwfæsta pápa, wæs his fifta fæder.... Gregorius is Grécisc nama [ = Γρηγόριος watchful, from γρηγορέω I watch], se sweigþ on Lédenum gereorde, Uigilantius, ðæt is on Englisc Wacolre.

weá

(n.)
Grammar
weá, an; m.

woe misery evil afflictiontroubleevilwickedness malice

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Hý magon weána tó fela geseón onhim selfum, synne genóge. Exon. Th. 77, 30; Cri. 1264

Linked entries: wáwa weó

Beormas

(n.)
Grammar
Beormas, gen. a; pl. m.

The Biarmians

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Biarmia ortum versus ad mare album vel gandvikam sita est :' - Fela spella him sǽdon ða Beormas, ǽgþer ge of hyra ágenum lande, ge of ðǽm landum, ðe ymb hý útan wǽran; ac he nyste hwæt ðæs sóðes wæs, forðæm he hit sylf ne geseah.

hwæðer

(con.)
Grammar
hwæðer, hweðer; conj.

Whether

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Sceáwiaþ ðæt land hwæðer hit wæstmbǽre sí ... and hwæðer ðæt landfolc sí tó gefeohte stranglíc oððe untrumlíc, feáwa on getele hwæðer ðe fela, Num. 13, 19-20

ge-dón

(v.)
Grammar
ge-dón, ic -dó, ðú -dést, he -déþ, pl. -dóþ; p. -dyde, pl. -dydon; pp. dén, -dón

To domakeputcauseeffectreach a placefacere

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Swá fela wundra swá we gehýrdon gedóne quanta audivimus facto, Lk. Bos. 4, 23. Ðæt he us ðæt cúþ gedó that he make that known to us, Blick. Homl. 139, 31.

wícing

(n.)
Grammar
wícing, es; m.
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Ðá flotan, wícinga fela, 133, 60; By. 73: 134, 40; By. 97. Ðý geáre gegaderode ón hlóþ wícenga (-inga, v. l. ), Chr. 879; Erl. 80, 28. Ðá métton hié .xvi. scipu wícenga (-inga, v. l. ), 885; Erl. 82, 28.

Linked entry: scegð-mann

wód

(adj.)
Grammar
wód, adj.

Madravingblasphemousmadragingfurious

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Fela wóde menn heora gewit underféngon, Homl. Skt. ii. 27, 130. Hé wódum mannum gewitt forgeaf, Homl. Th. i. 480, 14. Hé ða deóflu áfligde of dám wódum wyrhtum, Homl.

for-þencan

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fela word spraec, forþóht ðearle (cf. ormód, Bt. 1; S. 8, 4), ne wénde ǽfre cuman of ðǽm clammum, Met. 1, 82. Hwæt mæg ic, earm, forðóht, máre geðencan?, Hml. S. 23 b, 477.

ge-fyrn

Grammar
ge-fyrn, long ago.
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Hé wæs gefyrn worulde, and swíþe fela geara synd nú ágáne syððan hé gewát of þysan lífe, Hml. S. 23, 727. Swá Sedulus iú gefyrn giddode, Angl. viii. 332, 16