a-blend
Blinded ⬩ cæcatus
Entry preview:
Blinded; cæcatus Wénaþ ða ablendan mód the blinded minds think. Bt. 38, 5; Fox 206, 6
á-steóran
To steer ⬩ guide ⬩ govern
Entry preview:
To steer, guide, govern Þú ástýrst and wildest æallum þís middangearde, Shrn. 168, 9
Linked entry: á-stýran
á-stregdan
Entry preview:
Stregd (ástregd,v. L.) þis gehálgode wæter ofer þæs mannes líchaman, Gr. D. 82, 17. Ástregde (-stréde, v. 1.) man þone wǽtan mid háligwætere liquor aspergatur aqua benedicta, Ll. Th. ii. 214, 29. Ástrogden asparsus, Rtl. 118, 5 : 119, II: 122, 22
tropere
One of the service books of the Church, that which contained the tropes ⬩ tropariurn
Entry preview:
Ðonne ðú tropere haban wille, ðonne wege ðú ðíne swí[þ]ran hand, and tyrn mid dínum swíþran scytefíngre ofer ðíne breóst foreweard, swilce ðu notian wille, Techm. ii. 119, 10-12. A tropere troparium, Wülck. Gl. 617, 38: 755, 3. A tropery, 719, 34.
Unecunga
Entry preview:
The word occurs in a list of territorial names Unecung(a?)ga (Ynetunga, p. 415; Unecung-ga, p. 416) twelf hund hýda, Cod. Dip. B. i. 414, 26
á-speoftan
To spit out
Entry preview:
To spit out Áspeaft (-speoft, R.) expuit, Jn. L. 9, 6
wæter-bucca
An aquatic insect, a water-spider
Entry preview:
An aquatic insect, a water-spider Wæter-buc[c]a vel[wæter]gát tippula, Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 14
swearm
A swarm, crowd ⬩ swarm ⬩ examen ⬩ tumult ⬩ a swarm ⬩ a swarm; rioting ⬩ a swarm, crowd
Entry preview:
A swarm, crowd Sue[a]rm examen, Wrt. Voc. ii. 107, 82. Swearrn, 32, 17: 144, 43 (examen has been omitted here by Wright, see Wülck. Gl. 230, 6) : Ælfc. Gr. 9, 12 ; Zup. 40, 14: examen, multitudo, Hpt. Gl. 457, 37 : 496, 14
bed-cófa
Entry preview:
Voc. i. 58, 8. Bedcof[a] cubile, Gern. 388, 10. Hyt ys belocen on mýnre bedcofan, Hml. A. 189, 242
þreáp
a troop ⬩ band
Entry preview:
M. 13310. This þrepe (the siege of Troy) for to leue, Destr. Tr. 9845: perhaps, also, in sense of troop : -- An feondes trume ... þe saules ... awarieþ al a-þrep (in a troop? or = Ital. a gara) al so wulues doþ þe step, Misc. 149, 85.
a-hón
To hang ⬩ crucify ⬩ suspendere ⬩ crucifigere
Entry preview:
To hang, crucify; suspendere, crucifigere He Andreas hát ahón on heáhne beám he commanded to hang Andrew on a high tree, Exon. 70a; Th. 261, 3; Jul. 309: Gen. 40, 19. Ic ahó suspendo; ic ahéncg suspendi, Ælfc. Gr. 26, 6; Som. 29, 12.
unlyb-wyrhta
A poison-maker ⬩ one who prepares poisons for purposes of witchcraft ⬩ a sorcerer
Entry preview:
A poison-maker, one who prepares poisons for purposes of witchcraft, a sorcerer Unlybwyrhta veneficus, Wrt. Voc, i. 74, 39. Wyccan and wælcyrian and unlybwyrhtan, Wulfst. 298, 19.
Linked entry: lyb-wyrhta
adesa
Entry preview:
Voc. ii. 10, 20. A&sa dolatorium, ascia, Hpt. 33, 250, 10. Mid adesan ascia, Ps. Th. Spl. L. 76, 6. Eadesan, Ps. Srt. Adosan, Bd. 4, 3; M. 264, 6. Hé sceal habban æcse, adsan, bil, Angl. ix. 263, 1. Add
searwian
To act with craft or treachery ⬩ to feign
Entry preview:
Gif preóst searwaþ be winde, gebéte ðæt if a priest do not conduct an ordeal rightly, let him make 'bót.' If a priest uses deceit in respect to the wrapping up of the hand or arm exposed to the ordeal, let him make 'bót,' L. N. P.
Linked entry: searwaþ
a-flyge
A flying ⬩ flight ⬩ volatus
Entry preview:
A flying, flight; volatus
a-wrygenes
a discovery ⬩ revealing
Entry preview:
a discovery, revealing
a-þoht
A thinking out ⬩ an excogitation ⬩ a device ⬩ an invention ⬩ commentum
Entry preview:
A thinking out, an excogitation, a device, an invention; commentum, Cot. 35
á-wár
Anywhere ⬩ alicubi
Entry preview:
Anywhere; alicubi Swilce he áwár wǽre, ǽrðan ðe he geboren wǽre as if he were anywhere, before he was born, Homl. Th. ii. 244, 19
a-geofan
to restore ⬩ give back ⬩ repay
Entry preview:
to restore, give back, repay,Heming, p. 104