heáfod
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Add: A head Heáfod caput, heáfud cephal, Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 40, 41. the head of a living creature. of a human being Bróht wæs heáfud (-od, L. ) his on disce, Mt. R. 14, 11. Þeáh him mon sleá mid sweorde wiþ þæs heáfdes though one strike at his head with
heorr
a hinge
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Add: glossing cardo Heor cardo Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 39. a hinge; the bar which forms part of a hinge Heorras serras (seras portarum tuarum, Ps. 147, 13), Bl. Gl. a cardinal point (local) Heorras eorðan cardines terrae, Ps. Srt. ii. 186, 29. Heorra, Ps
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-hearwa
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heall
A stone ⬩ rock
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A stone, rock Þám strengestan(-e, MS.) stáne, healle robustissim petre (cf. Mt. 7, 24), An. Ox. 4111. ¶ in place names, as the name of a person. Cf.Icel. Hallr: In halles burge, C. D. iii. 377, 24. Heallingwara mearc wið Halles meres, 400, 27. In locum
heardra
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hearch
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hearra
A lord
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A lord. The use of this word, which occurs only in poetry, is noticeable. It occurs twenty-three tines in that part of the Genesis [vv. 235-851] for which Sievers claims an old Saxon origin, and only four times elsewhere, Cd. 192; Th. 240, 28; Dan. 393
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heán
to elevate
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to elevate. Ðú úp hést mec of geatum deáðes exaltas me de portis mortis, Ps. Srt. 9, 15. Þá staðolas þǽre cyrican . . . hé ongann hýn (heán, v. l.) and miclian, Bd. 2, 4; Sch. 127, 10. Add:
heorr
A hinge ⬩ cardinal point ⬩ cardo
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A hinge, cardinal point; cardo Ðeós heorr hic cardo, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3; Som. 8, 61. Seó hior ðe eall gód on hwearfaþ the hinge on which all good turns, Bt. 34, 7, Fox 142, 35. Wæs ðæt beorhte bold tóbrocen swíðe heorras tóhlidene the splendid dwelling was
heoru
A sword
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A sword, Beo. Th. 2574; B. 1285: Exon. 92 a; Th. 346; 10; Gn. Ex. 202. The word is a poetical one both in English and Icelandic, and in these dialects, as in Old Saxon, is mostly used in compounds
healf
a half
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a half
heorde
custody
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custody
-heort
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-heort
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-heáwa
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