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eorþ-bigegnys

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eorþ-bigegnys, l. eorþ-bígengnes.

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eorþ-brycg

(n.)
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eorþ-brycg, e; f.
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A bridge made by placing poles across a stream and laying earth and sods on them Of eorthbrycge, C. D. B. iii. 223, 24

Linked entry: brycg

eorþ-búend

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eorþ-búend, eorþ-búend, -búgend, -búgi(g)end (-ende)
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an inhabitant of earth; inhabiting earth Ealle eorðbúend Drihten herian jubilate Deo, omnis terra, Ps. Th. 65, 1. Ealle eorðbúend gentes, 101, 13. Þeóda, ealle eorðbúend, 65, 7. Þá nú æðelingas, ealle eorðbúend, Ebréi hátað, Gen. 1648: Cri. 1279. Eorðbúend

eorþ-burh

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eorþ-burh, -byr(i)g.
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earth-work Scídwealles eorðbyri vallum, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 34. On eorðburge geat, C. D. v. 256, 11. Of ðǽre díc besúþan ðǽre eorðbyrg, vi. 129, 21. Ðone wudu æt ðǽre eorðbyrig, iii. 4, 11. Anlang hrycges tó ðǽre eorðburh middeweardre, 411, 23. On lythlan

eorþ-cafer

(n.)
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eorþ-cafer, eorþ-ceafer, es; m.

An earth-beetle

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An earth-beetle Eorðceaperas (printed -caferas, but see Angl. viii. 450) tauri (cf. a kind of earth-beetles called tauri, i. Buls, Holland's Pliny), Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 26. Substitute:

eorþ-cenned

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Eorðcende terriginae, Ps. Srt. 48, 3. Add

eorþ-cyn

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For 'each terrestrial species' substitute 'all that lives on earth,' and add:

eorþ-cyning

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Eorðcynincgas reges terrae, Ps. Th. 2, 2. Eorðkyningas, 47, 4. Se sélesða sinces brytta, Ǽlfryd mid Englum, ealra cyninga þára þe hé secgan hýrde, oððe hé hiorðcyninga ǽnigne gefrugne, Gr. D. 2, 16. Óðrum eorðcyningum tó bysne, Nar. 33, 2. Eorþcyningas

eorþ-denu

(n.)
Grammar
eorþ-denu, e; f.

A valley

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A valley Þonne ealle eorðware úp árísað of ðǽm ealdum eorðscræfum and of ðǽm ealdum eorðdenum, Nap. 20

eorþ-gemǽre

(n.)
Grammar
eorþ-gemǽre, es; n.
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An end of the earth Eall eorðgemǽru universi fines terrae, Ps. Th. 21, 25

eorþ-gemet

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Geometrica, ꝥ ys eorðgemet, Shrn. 152, 15. Eorþgemet, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 41: An. Ox. 55, 2. Eorþgemete geometrica, 2, 157. Eorþgemet geometricam, terram mensuram, 5442. For Cot. 95 substitute

eorþ-græf

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Eorþgræf pæðeþ it (the bucket of a draw-well) makes its way through a passage dug in the earth, Rä. 59, 9. Substitutefor citation

eorþ-gráp

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After wyrhtan add: forweorene, geleorene, heard gripe hrúsan, and for ' mighty workmen ' substitute ' masters and (?) makers. '

eorþ-hele

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A covering of the ground(?) Wæs þæt deáw swilce hit hagoles eorðhele wǽre the dew was as if there were a covering of hail upon the ground; ros jacuit. . . in similitudinem pruinae super terram, Ex. 16, 14. Substitute:

eorþ-hnutu

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eorþ-hús

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Se cásere hét hine gelǽdan intó ánum eorðhúse, and hét áne strange leó lǽtan in tó him, Hml. S. 30, 415. [He hehte hine makian an eorðhus . . . wes Astrild i þissen eorðhuse þat na mon heo þer nuste, Laym. 2360, 2381.] Add

eorþ-mata

(n.)
Grammar
eorþ-mata, (-maþa?), an ; m.

An earth-worm

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An earth-worm Eorþmata vermis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 44

Linked entry: maþa

eorþ-ríce

the earth

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Add: the earth Sé hæfde áre on eorþríce, sé þe ælmyssan dǽlde dómlíce, Lch. i. 400, 8. an earthly kingdom, earthly power Críst fleáh eorðríce tó underfónne regnum percipere vitavit in terris, Past. 33, 12

eorþ-scræf

a cavetombgrave

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Add: a cave Dauid wæs gehýd on ánum eorðscræfe (spelunca) . . . Ðá fór Saul forð bí ðæm scræfe, Past. 197, 12. a cave for burial, tomb, grave Ne þearf þæs nán man wénan ꝥ his líchama mæge þá synbyrþenna on eorþscrafe gebétan, Bl. H. 109, 31. Ealle erðware

eorþ-slihtes

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