mór-berige
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A mulberry: — Hí mid mórberium gebyldon þá ylpas (to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries, 1 Macc. 6, 34), for ðám ðe mórberian him is metta leófost, Hml. S. 25, 576
óra
A species of money introduced by the Danes
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Icel. eyrir, the eighth part of a mark) þolie twelf órena mid Denum and .xxx. sciłł. mid Englum, L. E. G. 7; Th. i. 170, 16. Béte man ðæt æt deádum menn mid .vi. healfmarce, and æt cwicon mid .xii. óran, L. Eth. iii. 1 ; Th. i. 292, 11.
pilece
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Hwí worhte God pylcan Adame and Eve æfter ðam gylte? Ðæt hé geswutelode mid ðám deádum fellum ðæt hí wǽron ðá deádlíce, Boutr. Scrd. 20, 28
Linked entry: pylece
sweoloþa
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Mid hǽtan and mid swoluðan ardore et aestu, Deut. 28, 22. v. preceding word
mynster-clúse
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monastery, convent His gemæccean mynecyna mynsterclúsan swá unearges mid gewunan hyrdes heó bewerude swýþe wǽrlíce hé (Edgar) bebeád coniugi suę sanctimonialium mandras [mandra monasterium, Migne] ut impauidi more custodis defenderet cautissime precepit Angl
Linked entry: clúse
óga
the feeling which is excited in a person, terror, dread, horror, great fear ⬩ the exciting cause of such a feeling ⬩ an object which excites fear, a terrible, horrible thing ⬩ to fear ⬩ to terrify ⬩ to frighten ⬩ terrible
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Skt. 21, 11) of heofenum and micele tácna terrores de caelo et signa magna, 538, 32. Ógana terribilium, Blickl. Gl. God him sende swíðlíce ógan (the ten plagues) Ælfc. T. Grn. 5, 18. [Cf.
melda
a narrator ⬩ an informer ⬩ announcer ⬩ a betrayer
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Kmbl. 856; El. 428. a betrayer Gé sind meldan and manslagan ( betrayers and murderers, Acts vii. 52), Homl. Th. i. 46, 24
sprǽce
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Apollonius hyre árehte ealle his gelymp, and æt þáre sprǽcan ende him feóllon teáras of ðám eágum, Ap. Th. 15, 26
ác-hangra
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An oak wood on a slope On áchangran, C. D. v. 179, 28
sucga
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[In later times the word seems to apply to the whitethroat, which is called hazeck (Worcest.) and hay sucker (Devon), and to the hedge-sparrow, isaac or hazock (Worcest.), segge (Devon), E. D. S. Pub., Bird Names, pp. 23, 29.
Linked entry: sugga
widuwa
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A widower Ðæt bið rihtlíc líf ðæt cniht þurhwunige on his cnihtháde, óð ðæt hé on rihtre mǽdenǽwe gewífige; and habbe ða syððan, ða hwíle ðe seó libbe: gif hire ðonne forðsíð gebyrige, ðonne is rihtost ðæt hé þananforð wydewa þurhwunige, L. I.
ticia
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A tick (an insect infesting animals) Ticia ricinus, Txts. 109, 1130
mete-cleofa
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A pantry Met[e]clyf[a] cellarium, An. Ox. 56, 270
tungol-cræfta
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An astrologer, astronomer Tungelcræftum Chaldeorum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 18, 33: 82, 6. v. next word
Pante
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The river Blackwater in Essex Hí Pantan streám bestódon, Eástseaxena ord and se æschere, Byrht. Th. 133, 50; By. 68. Wódon wælwulfas ofer Pantan, 134. 41 ; By. 97.
ele-greófa
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An oil-pot (v. greófa); or fibrous material saturated with oil (?) (cf. O. H.
Linked entry: greofa
ísen-tanga
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Substitute: isen-tange, an; f. A pair of snuffers ísentange munctorium, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 314, 9
oter-hola
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An otter's hole Of ðam oterholan, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 23, 30
plegestre
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A female athlete Cemp[ena], plegestr[en]a luctatorum, An. Ox. 4735
fulla
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oþþe hwæt mæg beón geómrung and wánung, gyf ꝥ næs se fulla ǽgðres?, Hml. S. 23, 104