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list

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

Artskillcraftcunningartifice

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fela onginþ leornian lista many arts doth he learn, 28, 153; Met. 28, 77: Cd. 13; Th. 16, 5; Gen. 239. Mid listum speón idese on ðæt unriht with wiles he lured the woman to that wrong, 28; Th. 37, 12; Gen. 588: 32; Th. 43, 8; Gen. 687.

úht-sang

(n.)
Grammar
úht-sang, es; m.

One of the services of the churchnocturns or matins

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One of the services of the church, nocturns or matins Hú fela sealma on nihtlícum tídum tó singenne synt. On wintres tíman is se úhtsang þus tó beginnenne ... quanti psalmi dicendi sunt nocturnis horis.

wyrt-wala

(n.)
Grammar
wyrt-wala, an; m.: -walu, e; f.
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the root of a plant Swá fela bóga treówes of ánum wyrtwalan ( radice ) spryttaþ, Scint. 3, 17. Genim wegbrǽdan wyrtwalan, Lchdm. i. 82, 19: 90, 6, 23: 94, 19, 23. Wyrtwalan radices, Ps. Surt. 79, 10.

car-ful

Grammar
car-ful, (care-).
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Add: of persons, filled with anxiety, anxious, troubled Ðú eart carful and bysig ymbe fela ðing thou art careful and troubled about many things (Lk. 10, 41), Hml. Th. ii. 440, 8. Ne beó ðú carful ymbe woruldlicum gestreónum, 344, 2.

láf

Grammar
láf, <b>. I.</b>
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Add Him féla láf ( used with collective force and taking verb in plural? ) ne meahton sceððan, B. 1032. Add: Þǽr Alexandres láf wæs and his sunu, Ors. 3, 11; S. 148, 31. Of wífe ł hláfe seofa bróðra de uxore septem fratrum Mt. p. 19, 6.

fricgan

(v.)
Grammar
fricgan, fricgean, fricggan; part. fricgende; ic fricge, ðú frigest, frigst, frihst, he frigeþ, frigþ, frihþ, pl. fricgaþ; p. ic, he fræg, ðú frǽge, pl. frǽgon; impert. frige; subj. pres. fricge, pl. fricgen; pp. ge-frigen, -fregen, -frægen

To askinquirequestionfind outseek afterlearnget information ofinterrŏgāresciscĭtāripĕtĕrefando accĭpĕrecompĕrīre

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Gomela Scylding, fela fricgende, feorran rehte the aged Scylding, learning much, related [things] from [times] remote, Beo. Th. 4218; B. 2106: Exon. 92 b; Th. 347, 17; Sch. 14.

(prep.)
Grammar
bí, prep. dat. [Bí is more frequently shortened into be. In compounds it is generally written be- or bi-; but bí- is long where it is used for big, or is a contraction, thus, - bí-spell for big-spell, and as bí-breád for beó-breád. v. be.]

By, near to, at, in, uponjuxta, prope, apud, inOf, aboutde, quoadBy, through, because of, after, according to, in comparison withper, secundum, pro, ex

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Ðisses fugles gecynd fela gelíces bí ðám gecornum Cristes þegnum the nature of this bird is much like to the chosen servants of Christ, 61 b; Th. 225, 12; Ph. 388. sometimes bí is separated from its case Bí wædes ófre by the shore of the sea, Exon. 96

á-gán

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D. iv. 56, 27. to come out, become known Hé létt ágán út hú fela hundred hýda wǽron innon þǽre scíre he made it come out how many hundred hides there were in the shire , Chr. 1085; P. 216, 18

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hold

(adj.)
Grammar
hold, adj.
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Fela sceal tó holdan hámes geréfan, Angl. ix. 265, 10. Lilla ðæs cyninges þegn him se holdesta (heoldesta, v. l. amicissimus ), Bd. 2, 9; Sch. 147, 6.

on-sendan

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</b> of a destructive agency, to send out of this life :-- Bealocwealm hafað fela feorhcynna forð onsended, B. 2266

ælmesse

alms, what is given in charitya charitable actionan offering

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Ne selle mon tó fela . . . ðý lǽs him gehreówe sió ælmesse, Past. 325, 8. Ðé þúhte ǽfre tó lytel úre ælmesse, Wlfst. 241, 3. Ælmæssan stipis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 78, 35.

ge-tæl

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tæl, -tel, -teal, es; pl. nom. acc. -talu; n.

a numberseriesreckoningcomputationnumerusseriescomputuscomputatioa companyracetribecenturiatribusa book of reckoninga registercataloguelaterculumcatalogus= κατάλoγos

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Els. 9, 2, God geíce fela þúsenda to ðison getale Deus addat ad hunc numerum multa millia, Deut. 1, 11. Twelf pund be getale twelve pounds by tale, Chart.

Linked entries: ge-tel ge-teal ge-tel

be-feallan

to fall,to get intoto fall into sininto the hands of a person, to fall to actionto fall upontake effect on a personto fall tobe assigned todeprived (of)

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(Cf. se gescyrta es underféhð fela naman, 51, 7.) Seó óðer præteritum geendað on ii, ac on ðǽre ne befeallað ná má worda, 166, 9. befeallen (æt) deprived (of) Hí wǽron æt hiora yldran befeallen(n)e, Lch. iii. 424, 13

hwílum

(adv.)
Grammar
hwílum, hwílon; dat. pl. as adv.

At times for a timesometimeswhilome

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Hwílum tó gebede feóllon sometimes they fell to praying, Cd. 37; Th. 48, 18; Gen. 777: 38; Th. 50, 17; Gen. 810. Hí hwílum gelýfaþ qui ad tempus credunt, Lk. Skt. 8, 13.

Linked entries: HWÍL hwílon

LÍM

(n.)
Grammar
LÍM, es; m.

LIMEcementmortarglueglutenpaste

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Swá lím gefæstnaþ fell tó sumum brede as glue, fastens a skin to a board, 44; Som, 45, 25. Límes calcis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 19, 52. Áfæstnod ic eom on líme grundes infixus sum in limo profundi, Ps. Spl. 68, 2.

blác

(adj.)
Grammar
blác, adj.

bright, shininglucidus, splendidusBLEAK, pale, pallid, livid, as in deathpallidus, de moribundis et mortuispallidus, subalbus

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Scylfing hreás blác Scylfing fell pale, Beo. Th. 4969; B. 2488: Runic pm. 29; Kmbl. 345, 16. Blácne pale, acc. Judth. 12; Thw. 25, 26; Jud. 278. He hæfde blæc feax and blácne andwlitan he had black hair and a pale countenance, Bd. 2, 16; S. 519, 34.

Linked entry: blǽc

meltan

(v.)
Grammar
meltan, p. mealt, pl. multon; pp. molten.

to meltbecome liquidbe consumed, dissolvedto digest

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Multon meretorras ( when the waters of the Red Sea fell upon the Egyptians ), Cd. 167; Th. 208, 16; Exod. 484. Ðonne mé mægen mylte dum defecerit virtus mea, Ps. Th. 70, 8. Ne sceal ánes hwæt meltan ( be consumed on the pile ), Beo.

ge-feohtan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-feohtan, p. -feaht, pl. -fuhton; pp. -fohten.

to fightpugnareto obtain by fightingpugnando acquirere

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Ðeáh hit sié on middurn felda gefohten though it be fought on mid-field, L.

ge-frédan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-frédan, ic -fréde, ðú -frédest, he -frédeþ, frét, pl. -frédaþ; p. -frédde; pp. -fréded

To feelperceiveknowbe sensible ofsentīre

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Hí swurdes ecge ne gefréddon they felt not the sword's edge, 544, 22. Ðæt he gefréde that he has sense, 302, 21

wrídian

(v.)
Grammar
wrídian, wríþian; p. ode

To put forth shootsbe productivegrowflourish

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Voc. ii. 38, 13. literal, of vegetable growen Se aeþela feld wrídaþ, wynnum geblówen, Exon. Th. 199, 17; Ph. 27.

Linked entry: wríþian