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Anglo-Saxon

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ár-weorþlic

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Ox. 2012. Árwyrðlicne venerabilem, Rtl. 77, 27. Add

bufantigera

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Ox. 2, 440; thiara hætte, 325. So tigera from Latin tiara ), Hpt. Gl. 525, 9

camp-lic

(adj.)
Grammar
camp-lic, adj.
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Ox. 11, 156: 12, 9. Réþe, camplice tyrannici (militonum commanipulares), 858

cirman

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Ox. 4605. Cyrmyndre, 8, 264. Cermenda sonantia, 46, 6. Add

ed-staþelung

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ed-staþelung, restoration.
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Ox. 2214

cyne-wiþþe

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Ox. 5241: Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 44. Cynewiððan, Hpt. 33, 239, 16

Linked entry: wiþþe

ge-scola

(n.)
Grammar
ge-scola, an; m.
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Ox. 2271, note

heáfod-frætewness

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Ox. 4821), Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 48. Heáfodfrætennesse, 26, 77

Linked entry: fræteness

gristan

(v.)
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Ox. 4605. [v. N. E. D. grist to gnash the teeth.] See preceding word. (?)

Linked entry: gyrst

hem

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Ox. 50, 51. Feald þú mid þínre swíðran hande þane hem þínes wynstran earmstoces ofer þínne wynstran scytefinger, Tech. ii. 128, 2. Add

hlyn

Grammar
hlyn, hlynn.
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Ox. 17, 7. Add:

leoþu--wǽcan

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Ox. 3802

mǽgþ-rǽdenn

(n.)
Grammar
mǽgþ-rǽdenn, e ; f.
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Ox. 2, 109. Mǽgðrédena necessiíudinum (Osburga niihi conlribulibus necessiíudinum nexibus conglutinata, Aid. l, 12), 7, 2. Mǽgðrǽdena, Angl. xiii. 27, 2

ófer

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Ox. 4798. Cf. (?) ýfer. Add

þeód-wita

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Ox. 8, 349. <b>II b.</b> add :-- Þeodwitan philosophi, Scint. 106, 6

bí-geng

(n.)
Grammar
bí-geng, (big-).

practice ⬩ exercise ⬩ doing ⬩ cultivation ⬩ tillage ⬩ observance ⬩ worship

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Ox. 2283 infra.) practice, exercise, doing Líf mid gódra weorca bigenge frætwian, Ll. Th. ii. 402, 5. Bígencge, Hml. Th. ii. 48, 28. Biggenge, R. Ben. 3, 7. For lárlicere bígenge propter gymnicum (philosophiae) stadium, An. Ox. 2283.

Linked entries: -geng bí-genge heofon-bígenged

ge-tynge

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Ox. 3122. skilful, v. ge-tyngnes; III Þá forewittigan ł getincge glǽw[nesse] sagacissimam, i. peritissimam industriam (animi exercere ), An. Ox. 70

á-cwencan

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Ox. 4391. of other things Gesihða yfele ácwencð ( extinguit ) hungor, Scint. 56, 14. Se crístendóm ne mihte beón þanonforð ácwænced nǽfre, Ll. Th. ii. 372, 20

singal

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Ox. 11, 163. Ðæt mód ðætte næfð singale sorge hit self tó behealdanne si a circumspectionis sollicitudinecor desiituitur, Past. 431, 8. of other things Singal perpes, An. Ox. 508.

be-smittian

(v.)
Grammar
be-smittian, p. od

To pollute ⬩ defile

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Ox. 4156. moral Heora for*-*mænig mid ídelum lofe byþ besmittad multos ex eis cenodoxiae morbus commaculat, R. Ben. 139, 19

Linked entry: smittian

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