Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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for-týnan

To shut up ⬩ prevent passage along

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Substitute: To shut up, prevent passage along a road, into or out of a place Þá scearpan þing sint fortýnende þá innoþas, Lch. ii. 212, 1

for-wemman

(v.)
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for-wemman, p. de

To defile

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To defile Hé manega his mágan mánlice forwernde, Sal. K. p. 121, 38

for-wénan

(v.)

to overween ⬩ insolens

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to overween. Substitute: for-wened glosses insolens Feruuaenid, foruuened insolens, Txts. 70, 548. Þá forwenedan insolentiam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 53

for-togennes

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Wiþ fortogenysse, Lch. i. 370, 1. Fortogonysse, 368, 3. Add

for-tredan

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Contrivit geþrǽste minuit fortræd, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 80. Ꝥte hiá ne fortrédon (-un, R.) hine ne compremerent eum, Mk. L. 3, 9. Add

for-þyrrian

(v.)
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For þyr l. þyrre

for-tíhan

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Dele

for-wandodlic

Similar entry: -wandodlíc

for-wandodlíce

(adv.)

Similar entry: -wandodlíc

for-wandung

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Forwandunge pudore, Ps. Rdr. 34, 26. Forwandunga verecundiam, 68, 20. Add

for-wealwian

(v.)
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for-wealwian, p. ode

To wither up ⬩ wither away

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To wither up, wither away

for-trúwung

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Gerest ðæt mód hit orsorglíce on ðǽre fortrúwunga ( confidentia ), Past. 463, 11. For dǽre fortrúwunga ( fiducia ) his cræfta, 27. Add

for-wynned

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for-weorþan

to become ill ⬩ to go bad ⬩ to come to a bad end ⬩ to perish

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Add: to become ill Philippus forwearð on móde, Hml. S. 2, 104. of food, to go bad Gif salt forworðes si sal evanuerit, Mt. L. 5, 13. to come to a bad end His geféran ealle forwurdon tó deáðe, Ap. Th. 11, 6. to perish, of death Ealle þá ðe sweord nymað

for-werednes

decrepitude

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decrepitude. Similar entries Cf. for-weorenness. Add:

for-weren

Similar entry: for-weoren

for-worhta

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Dele, Similar entries and see for-wyrcan

for-worpness

Similar entry: for-weorpness

for-wisnian

(v.)
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Forwisnode emarcuit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 36. Forwisnade sónæ se fíc arefacta est continuo ficulnea, Mt. R. 21, 19. For þon þe hié næfdan wyrtryme forwisnadun ( aruerunt ), 13, 6. Forwisnende (-werniende, An. Ox. 59 ) corruptibilem, Hpt. Gl. 407, 34. Þá

for-word

(n.)
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glosses iota Foruord ł pricle iota, Mt. L. 5, 18

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