be-hófian
To have need of ⬩ to need ⬩ require ⬩ egere ⬩ indigere ⬩ Impersonally ⬩ it BEHOVETH ⬩ it concerns ⬩ it is needful or necessary ⬩ oportet ⬩ interest
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Ðeáh ða scearpþanclan witan ðisse Engliscan geþeódnesse ne behófien though the sharp-minded wise men may not have need of this English translation MS. Cot. Faust A. x. 150 b; Lchdm. iii. 440, 32. Behófaþ oportet Jn. Lind. War. 3, 7
Linked entries: a-behófian hófian be-héfe bi-hófian
full-fremman
To do fully ⬩ fulfil ⬩ finish ⬩ perfect ⬩ practise ⬩ perfĭcĕre ⬩ perăgĕre ⬩ patrāre
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Ðeáh hí on manegum þingum síen fullfremede though they are perfect in many things, Past. 65; Hat. MS
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hreów-líce
Miserably ⬩ cruelly ⬩ grievously
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Hreówlíce gefærþ seðe hine sylfne ðus forþ forscyldigaþ and gesǽlig biþ hé ðeáh ... miserably does he fare who thus continues to incur guilt; and yet he will be happy ..., L. Pen. 12; Th. ii. 280, 28: Chr. 1096; Erl. 233, 22
ræfnan
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Ðeáh hé deáþes cwealm ræfnan sceolde, Exon. Th. 240, 24; Ph. 643. to do, perform, accomplish, carry out Ða ðe ræfnaþ hér wordum and weorcum wuldorcyninges láre, 149, 20; Gú. 764 : 139, 17; Gú. 594.
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under-lecgan
to underlay ⬩ support ⬩ supponere ⬩ substernere
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Ðeáh hit mid náne anwald ne sié underléd cum nulla potestate fulcitur, Past. 17; Swt. 113, 25.
ge-hende
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Z. 232, II. local Hai þe þǽr gehende wæs, Jos. 7, 2. temporal Ne bið seó geendung þyssere worulde ná gyt, ðeáh ðe heó gehende sý, Hml. Th. ii. 342, 21.
tind
A tine, ⬩ prong, ⬩ tooth of an implement
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Ðeáh ánra gehwylc horn hæbbe .xii. tindas írene, and ánra gehwylc tind hæbbe synderlíce .xii. ordas, Salm. Kmbl. p. 150, 25. Tindes the rungs of a ladder, A. R. 354, 20. Tynde branch of a tree, Allit. Pms. 3, 78. Tindes of harowis, Alex. 3908.
weccan
To wake, waken. ⬩ to rouse from sleep ⬩ to rouse ⬩ to rouse ⬩ to enliven, stimulate, refresh ⬩ to rouse ⬩ to excite, stir up ⬩ to raise what is depressed ⬩ to give life to, to cause, give rise to, produce, raise
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Kmbl. 1699; An. 852. to rouse from the sleep of death Býman weccaþ of deáðe eall monna cynn, Exon. Th. 55, 21; Cri. 887. Ic gǽ ðætte of slépe ic wecce hine, Jn. Skt. Rush. 11, 11.
licgan
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Geseah hé his swegre licgende and hriðgende, Mt. 8, 14. expressing the posture of a dead body Se líchoma inne læg þæs deádan mannes, Bl. H. 219, 15. Hé nolde fleógan . . . þá his betera læg.
be-wegan
To cover, cover over, surround ⬩ obducere, circumdare
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To cover, cover over, surround; obducere, circumdare Bewegen wælmiste covered with the mist of death, Exon. 87 b; Th. 329, 30; Vy. 42. He hí bewæg mid wuda útan he surrounded them with wood, Bt. 39, 4; Fox 216, 25
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ge-mynd-dæg
A commemoration day, day of birth or of death
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A commemoration day, day of birth or of death Ðære abbudissan gemynd-dæg cujus natalis, Bd. 3, 8; S. 532, 39. Ðý dæge ðe his gemynd-dæg wǽre die depositions ejus, Bd. 4, 30; S. 608, 35: Th. Chart. 496, 4
swenc
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Trial, tribulation, affliction In niðrung ł in suoenc deáðes in damnationem mortis, Lk. Skt. Lind. 24, 20. On swencum (suoenccum, Lind.: geswincum, W. S.) ł costungum mínum in temtationibus meis, Rush. 22, 28.
níþing
A villain ⬩ one who commits a vile action
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Se cing and eall here cwǽdon Swegen for níþing ( Swegen had treacherously put Beorn to death ), Chr. 1049; Erl. 174. 31
sár-stæf
an insult, a reproach
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A term intended to pain, an insult, a reproach Godes andsacan sægdon sárstafum swíðe gehéton ðæt hé deáþa gedál dreógan sceolde God's adversaries said with bitter words, vehemently vowed, that he should suffer death, Exon. Th. 116, 10; Gú. 205
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wæl-niþ
Deadly hate ⬩ mortal enmity
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Deadly hate, mortal enmity Ðæt ys sió fǽhðo, and se feóndscipe, wælníð wera, Beo. Th. 5992; B. 3000. Æfter wælníðe, 170; B. 85. Áwehte ðone wælníð Nabochodonossor, Cd. Th. 218, 28; Dan. 46. Weallaþ wælníðas, Beo. Th. 4136; B. 2065
brand-hát
a burning ⬩ hot ⬩ Burning hot, very hot, ardent, passionate ⬩ ardentis-simus, vehemens, fervidus
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Burning hot, very hot, ardent, passionate; ardentis-simus, vehemens, fervidus Brandháta níþ weóll on gewitte ardent malice boiled in their mind, Andr. Kmbl. 1536; An. 769. Born in breóstum brondhát lufu ardent love burned in his breast, Exon. 46 b; Th
Eofes-ham
EVESHAM, Worcestershire ⬩ oppĭdi nomen in agro Vigorni*-*ensi
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D. 1037] died Æfic the noble dean at Evesham, Chr. 1037; Th. 294, 36, col. 2. Ælfward wæs abbad on Eofeshamme ǽrest Ælfward was first abbot of Evesham, Chr. 1045; Th. 303, 2.
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gár-leác
GARLIC ⬩ allium
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Nim gárleáces gódne dǽl take a good deal of garlic, Lchdm. iii. 12, 15. Nim gárleác take garlic, L. M. 1, 47; Lchdm. ii. 118, 12 : 1, 58; Lchdm. ii. 128, 10 : 1, 63; Lchdm. ii. 138, 3 : 2, 56; Lchdm. ii. 276, 15.
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hwíl-tídum
At times ⬩ sometimes
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Ðeós woruld ðeáh ðe beó myrige hwíltídum geþuht sý this world though sometimes it appear joyous, Homl. Th. i. 154, 17. Seó sǽ is hwíltídum smylte and myrige on tó rówene, hwílon eác swiðe hreóh and egeful on tó beónne, 182, 32
á-cwician
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D. 90, 7. to come to life Ealle deáde menn mannes bearnes stefne gehýrað, and hí ealle ácuciað, Hml. S. 23, 385. On niht hé forþférde, ac on dagunge hé eft ácwicode, Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 13. trans. To make lively; vivificare, Ps. Th. 118, 159