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þeód-loga

(n.)
Grammar
þeód-loga, an; m.
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Antecrist lǽrþ unsóðfæstnysse and swicolnesse ... and swá dóð ða þeódlogan, ðe taliaþ ðæt tó wærscype, ðæt man cunne lytelíce swician and mid unsóðe sóð oferswíðan, 55, 15

Linked entry: loga

strǽl-bora

(n.)
Grammar
strǽl-bora, an ; m.
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An archer Strélbora arcister, Wrt. Voc. ii. 101, 8. Strǽlbora and scytta, 7, 32. Strǽlbora, 55

lytel

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
lytel, adj., and neut. of adj. Add:: , lýtel (?). A. adj.
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Syle þicgean on wine geongum men fif cuceleras fulle, and gingrum and untrumum and wífum þrý cuculeras, litlum cildum ánne, Lch. i. 122, 24.

þeów-cnapa

(n.)
Grammar
þeów-cnapa, an; m.
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A servant-lad His ðeówcnapena án wearð þearle áwéd; ðá sette Martinus his handa him onuppon, and se feónd fleáh forht for ðam hálgan, and se ðeówa siððan gesundful leofode, Homl. Th. ii. 510, 27

lǽswian

(v.)
Grammar
lǽswian, lǽsian: p. ode, ede, trans. and intrans.

To pasturefeedgraze

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Ic hí lǽswige on dóme and on rihtwísnysse I will feed them in judgement and righteousness, Homl. Th. i. 242, 18. Hig man lǽswode on mórium lande pascebantur in locis palustribus, Gen. 41, 2.

Linked entry: lǽsian

eald-gefá

(n.)
Grammar
eald-gefá, an; m.
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An old foe Métte hiene his ealdgefána sum and hiene ofstang, Ors. 3, 7; S. 118, 34

ostre

(n.)
Grammar
ostre, an; f.
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An oyster Ostre ostrea, Wrt. Voc. ii. 63, 71: i. 65, 67: ostrea vel ostreum, 77, 70. Ðonne cumaþ ða oftost of mettum and of cealdum drincan swá swá sindon cealde ostran and æpla, Lchdm. ii. 244, 2: Coll. Monast. Th. 24, 9

sundor-hálga

(n.)
Grammar
sundor-hálga, an; m.
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Twegen men . . . án wæs sunderhálga, and óðer wæs openlíce synful, Bóceras and sunderhálgan, Scint. 203, 3. Ða Fariséiscan and sundorhálgan (scribes) hine tó deáðe fordémdon, H. R. 9, 28. Manega ðæra sunderhálgena (Pharisaeorum), Mt. Kmbl. 3, 7.

Linked entry: hálga

mýdrece

(n.)
Grammar
mýdrece, an; f.

A chest

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Ðǽs synt twá micle mýdercan, and án hræglcysð, and án lytulu towmýderce, and eác twá ealde mýdercan, Chart. Th. 538, 19-22.

Linked entries: méderce mídrece

renge

(n.)
Grammar
renge, rynge,ringe(?),an; f.

A spider or a spider's web

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Úre gǽr swá swá lobbe ł rynge beóþ ásmeáde anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur, Ps. Lamb. 89, 9. Áýdlian ðú dydest swá swá ǽtterloppan ł ryngan sáwle his tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus, 38, 13

Linked entry: rynge

deófles

(n.)
Grammar
deófles, of the devil, Andr. Kmbl. 86; An. 43; gen.
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of deófol

faca

(n.)
Grammar
faca, of spaces, Andr. Kmbl. 2741; An. 1373; gen. pl.
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of fæc

irfa

(n.)
Grammar
irfa, an; m.
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An heir Ðet hé ðis wel healde his dei and siððan forð bebeóde his erbum tó healdenne, C. D. i. 297, 5

sweord-wyrhta

(n.)
Grammar
sweord-wyrhta, an; m.
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-Móna se án and twentigoða unnytlíce tó wyrcenne bútan swurdwyrhtan (but the word glosses gladiatoribus), Lchdm. iii. 194, 10

canst

(v.)
Grammar
canst, knowest, canst, Andr. Kmbl. 135; An. 68: Maren 176;
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2nd pers. sing, pres. of cunnan

lúcan

Grammar
lúcan, [The transitive and intransitive uses should be separated. ]
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Luce conderet, i. clauderet, An. Ox. 28, 18. Add

weorc-geréfa

(n.)
Grammar
weorc-geréfa, an; m.
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An overseer of work Ða weorcgeréfan praefecti operum, Ex. 5, 10, 13. Sidrac, Misac, and Abdenago, ðe Nabochodonosor gesette him tó weorcgeréfan, Homl. Th. ii. 68, 5

hríseht

Grammar
hríseht, l. hríseht(e), and for 'Cot. 186, Lye'
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Voc. ii. 87, 27 (cf. bushy as an n

stig-wita

(n.)
Grammar
stig-wita, an ; m.
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An officer of a household (v. stig) Ða ðe Sodoma and Gomorra golde berófan bestrudon stigwitum those who robbed Sodom and Gomorrah of gold, despoiled their houses of officers, Cd. Th. 125, 14 ; Gen. 2079.

Linked entry: stí-wita

ge-scola

(n.)
Grammar
ge-scola, an; m.
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One of the same troop (scolu), companion, comrade Þæt wæs gegearwod fram fruman þisses middaneardes deóflum and his gescolum (cf. Mt. 25, 41), An. Ox. 2271, note