un-hýðig
Without that which is advantageous or beneficial ⬩ unhappy
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.), þeáh ðe þúhte ðæt ðú welig wǽre, ðonne ðú óþer twéga oððe hæfdest ðæt ðú noldest, oððe næfdest ðæt ðú woldest? Bt. 26, 1; Fox 90, 30. Gewát beorn unhýðig ( Guthlac's disciple when he had just lost his master ), Exon. Th. 185, 32; Gú. 1302.
spell
a story ⬩ narrative ⬩ account ⬩ relation ⬩ a historical narrative ⬩ history ⬩ a false or foolish story ⬩ a fable ⬩ an instructive talk ⬩ discourse ⬩ a philosophical argument ⬩ a sermon ⬩ homily ⬩ a saying ⬩ remark ⬩ sentence ⬩ statement of a single point ⬩ dictum ⬩ a saying that is to be repeated to another ⬩ a message ⬩ an announcement ⬩ speech ⬩ language of prose ⬩ a fable, tale ⬩ fabulatio, parabola ⬩ sermo, narratio, parabola, fabula, mythus ⬩ a saying
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Ðara abbuda stǽr and spell ðysses mynstres on twám bocum ic áwrát historiam abbatum monasterii hujus in libellis duobus descripsi, Bd. 5, 24; S. 648, 20, 28.
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steáp
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'Twa ehnen steappre þene steorren an þene ȝimstanes' Marh.9, 4. In the note on this passage Cockayne gives other instances of this use, e.g. Schinende and schenre þen eni ȝimstanes, steapre þen is steorre.
waru
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Hý ðæs wære cunnon, healdaþ hine twá hund wearda, Salm. Kmbl. 518 ; Sal. 258. His ware munitiones ejus, Blickl. Gl
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brecan
to shatter ⬩ demolish ⬩ to subdue ⬩ tame ⬩ reflex ⬩ to struggle ⬩ strive
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I. 5) Se leg ongan sleán and brecan ongeán þone wind, and efne swá se wind swíþor slóg on þone lég swá bræc hé swíþor ongeán þǽm winde, efne þǽm gelícost swylce ðá gesceafta twá him betweónan gefeohtan sceoldan, Bl. H. 221, 12-15.
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ge-hiwian
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THORN;ás twelf tácna sind swá gehíwode on ðám heofenlicum roderum, and synd swá bráde ꝥ hí gefyllað twá tída mid hyra úpgange, Lch. iii. 246, 6.
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þeáw
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</b> add :-- Hit is þeáw þǽre sprǽce and þǽre áscunge ꝥte simle þonne ðǽr án tweó of ádón biþ, þonne biþ ðǽr unrím ástyred, Bt. 39, 4; F. 216, 17. v. cniht-, weorold-þeáw. Add
heonan
afterwards ⬩ from now
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Súð heonon, Bo. 26. where relative position is marked: Hiona and ðona (on twá healla, W. S.) hinc et inde, Jn. L., R. 19, 18. with verbs of looking, showing, calling, &c. Þone (quem) nǽnig heonon ne sceáwaþ, Bl. H. 31, 9.
MǼD
MEAD ⬩ meadow
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(In the last two passages perhaps the forms are plural as in) Tó ðǽm mǽdwum wið súðan ða mǽdwa, 169, 2-3. [Mid lǽswe and mid mǽdwe, Chr. 777; Erl. 55, 12.]
smeart
Smart, painful
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Stede and twei sporen and ane smearte ʒerd O. E. Homl. i. 243, 23. Mid smerte smiten of smale longe ȝerden ii. 207, 6. Me him smæt mid smærte ȝerden Laym. 20318. If men smot it with a yerde smerte (adv.) Chauc. Prol. 149.]
a-styrian
To remove ⬩ move ⬩ agitate ⬩ stir violently ⬩ stir up ⬩ raise ⬩ amovere ⬩ removere ⬩ movere ⬩ commovere
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Simle ðonne ðǽr án tweó ofadón biþ, ðonne biþ ðǽr unrím astyred always when there is one doubt removed, then is there an innumerable multitude raised Bt. 39, 4; Fox 216, 19
wend
a course ⬩ an alternative ⬩ a case
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a course, an alternative, a case Ðonne gerecce hé, gif hé mæge, óþer twéga, oððe ðara spella sum leás oððe ungelíc ðære sprǽce ðe wit æfter spyriaþ; oððe þridde wend (a third course or alternative)ongite and geléfe ðæt wit on riht spirien Bt. 38, 2;
Beormas
The Biarmians
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In an Icelandic MS. on geography, written in the 14th century, Beormia and two Cwenlands are located together. Kvenlönd II, ok ero þau norþr frá Bjarmalandi.
ÍSEN
Iron ⬩ steel
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The two following passages refer to the ordeal [v. ísen-ordál] by hot iron :-- Gif hé hine ládian wille ðonne gá hé tó ðam hátum ísene and ládige ða hand mid ðe man týhþ if he be willing to clear himself, then let him go to the hot iron, and clear the
sib
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Hé biþ his móder on twám wísum tó sibbum getǽht, ðæt hé biþ ǽgðer ge sunu ge bróðer, Wulfst. 193, 7. Hát in gán seón sibbe gedriht samod ætgædere, Beo. Th. 779; B. 387: 1462; B. 729.
á-breóþan
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Substitute for all but the two instances from Ælfc. Gr. : intrans. To degenerate, deteriorate, fall away, fail, of persons, physical Oft hyre hleór ábreóðeð her good looks ore lost, Gn.
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tó-berstan
to burst asunder, ⬩ to break (intrans) in two, or in pieces, ⬩ be rent asunder ⬩ to break out in sores, ⬩ to break out
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to burst asunder, to break (intrans) in two, or in pieces, be rent asunder Ic tó-berste crepo, Ælfc. Gr. 24; Zup. 138, 5. Se heofon tóbyrst from ðæm eastdǽle óþ ðone westdǽl, Blickl. Homl. 93, 22. Tóbirsteþ, Exon. Th. 420, 7; Rä 39. 7.
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tweónung
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Tw(e)ónunge ambiguitatis, dubietatis, Hpt. Gl. 422, 32. Went nú moncyn on tweónunga men will be in doubt, Bt. 4; Fox 8, 18. Hí búton ǽlcere tweónunge sceolon on écnesse forwurðan, Homl. Ass. 145, 37. Bútan twýnunge absque ambiguitate, Ælfc.
feorran-cumen
stranger
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Hwæt sié freóndlufu ellþeódigra uncer twéga feorrencumenra, Gen. 1836. Ꝥ hí ælþeódige men and feorrancumene ne tyrian, Ll. Th. i. 326, 27
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hós
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Cf. ramus twig, Wrt. Voc. i. 285, 80: but hosa from its form seems to belong to hosu ), Ps. Cam. 57, 10