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wiþer-breca

(n.)
Grammar
wiþer-breca, an; m.

An adversary

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Ðú forbriccest wiþerbrecan conteruisti adversarios, Cant. Moys. Ex. 15, 7: Cd. Th. 4, 35; Gen. 64

cemban

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Add: to comb hair Genim þone camb þe heó ána hyre heáfod mid cemde (cæmde, v. l.), and nǽnig man ǽr mid cemde ne æfter cembe. Under ðám treówe cembe hyre feax ... ꝥ bið lǽcedóm þǽre ðe hyre heáfod þǽr cembeþ (cæmbeð, v. l. ), Lch. i. 332, 11-18.

frum-bearn

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. ¶ figurative :-- Banan mancynnes fácnes frumbearn (the devil ), An. 1296. one of the first two or three children, an elder child Adames and Euan aforan wǽron freólicu twá frumbearn cenned, Cain and Abel, Gen. 968.

ge-rinnan

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Add: of persons, to came together, congregate. Cf.

hlot

(n.)
Grammar
hlot, es; n.

A lot, portion, share

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Hie sendon hlot him betweónum they cast lots among them, Blickl. Homl. 229, 5. Hlotu wurpon mittentes sortem, Mk. Skt. 15, 24: Lk. Skt. 23, 34

Linked entries: hlét hlodd hlyt

hlýda

(n.)
Grammar
hlýda, an; m.

The month noisy with wind and storm, March

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The month noisy with wind and storm, March Hagolscúrum færþ geond middangeard Martius réðe Hlýda with hail-showers passes through the earth rude March [which we call] Hlyda, Menol. Fox 74; Men. 37.

Linked entry: hlýd-mónaþ

tó-feallan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-feallan, p. -feóll; pp. -feallen

To fall to pieces,fall away,collapse,fall down

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Him ða lima calic tófeóllan all his limbs fell off, Shrn. 62, 3. Scullen stanwalles biuoren him tofallen, Laym. 18867. Alls þatt temmple oferr hemm all tofelle, Orm. 16185.

Linked entries: tó-dreósan tó-fillan

mǽnan

(v.)
Grammar
mǽnan, p. de

To lamentmourncomplain

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Hú Boetius his earfoðu tó Gode mǽnde, Bt. tit. cap. 4. His tungan hé mǽnde swíðost he complained most of his tongue, Homl. Th. i. 330, 31. Basilius ménde ðæt unriht, Homl. Skt. 3, 322.

scild

(n.)
Grammar
scild, sceld, scyld, es; m.
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or can scyld here be connected with sculdor ? cf. (?) shield-bone = shoulder-blade quoted by Halliwell. Icel. skjöldr is used of shield-shaped things) Is se scyld ufan frætwum geféged ofer ðæs fugles bæc, 219, 17; Ph. 308

Linked entries: scyld hrung sceld

scínan

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Him mid síðedon twǽgen scínende englas, 25, 774. of that which can reflect light On ðǽm mæssehrægle scínð (candescit) ongemang óðrum bleóm ðæt twyðráwene twín, Past. 88, 1. On him byrne scán, B. 405. Under ðám scínendan brande, Hml.

DÆL

(n.)
Grammar
DÆL, gen. dæles; dat. dæle; pl. nom. acc. dalu, dalo; n. A

DALE, den. gulf vallis, barathrum

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We synd aworpene on ðás deópan dalo we are cast into these deep dens [hell], Cd. 22; Th. 27, 21; Gen. 421. On ðæt deópe dæl deófol gefeallaþ devils shall fall into the deep gulf, Exon. 30 b; Th. 93, 26; Cri. 1532

deád-lícnys

(n.)
Grammar
deád-lícnys, -nyss, e; f.

Deadliness, mortalitymortalĭtas

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He hæfde ealle deádlícnyssa aworpen he had cast off all mortalities, Homl. Th. ii. 290, 1

Linked entry: deáþ-lícnes

líðigian

(v.)
Grammar
líðigian, líðegian; p. ode

to assuagecalm

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To make, or be soft or yielding, to assuage, calm Gewylc ýða his ðú líðegast motum fluctuum ejus to mitigas, Ps. Spl. 88, 10.

Linked entry: líðian

mæðel-hégende

(v.; part.)
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mæðel-hégende, part. pres.

Attending, holding or addressing an assembly or councilconsultingconversing

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Ðá wæs tó ðam þingstede þeód gesamnod men came who had to attend the meeting . . Then was the people collected at the meeting-place, 2194; An. 1098. Hwæt se manna wæs meðelhégendra who of men that speak was he, 524; An. 262.

port-geráfa

(n.)
Grammar
port-geráfa, an ; m.
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Man cýððe ðam portgeréfan ( the case is one of buying in the market at Ephesus ), Homl. Skt. i. 23, 643.

tíd-ege

(n.)
Grammar
tíd-ege, (?), es; m.
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.), tó tweón weorþeþ ádl oþþe yldo oþþe ecghete fǽgum fromweardum feorh óðþringeþ ever in every case, before the fear of his end becomes doubtful (before his fear of death has lost any of its certainty?)

tunne

(n.)
Grammar
tunne, an; f.
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A barrel, cask Tunne cuba, Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 56: 17, 29: cupa, i. 24, 54: 83, 26: cantarus, ubi aqua mittitur, vel ydria, ii. 128, 11. Twá tunnan fulle hlútres aloð, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 203, 8: Chr. 852; Erl. 67, 38. Tunnena cuparum, modiorum, Hpt.

wapolian

(v.)
Grammar
wapolian, p. ode
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Ingá forrotednys on bánum mínum and under mé heó wapelige ingrediatur putredo in ossibus meis et subter me scateat, Cant. Habac. 16. v. preceding word

cnódan

(v.)
Grammar
cnódan, cneódan; pp. [ge-]cnóden.
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to impute, attribute Gif hwæt welgedónes bið, ðonne cnódað him ðæt ealle ðá ðe him under*-*ðiédde bióð mid herenesse omnes subditi, si qua bene gesta sunt, laudibus efferunt, Past. 111, 3. to attribute, call by a person's name, name after a person

wǽdelness

(n.)
Grammar
wǽdelness, e; f.

Povertywantindigencepenury

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Ðonne ðæs sellendan mód ne cann ða wǽdelnesse (inopiam) geðolian, Past. 44; Swt. 325, 14. Wédelnisse, Ps. Surt. 43, 24

Linked entry: wǽdlness