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bricg-weard

(n.)
Grammar
bricg-weard, es; m. [bricg
a bridge
, weard
a keeper, guardian
]

a bridgea keeper, guardianA keeper or defender of a bridge pontis custos vel defensor

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Th. 134, 16; By. 85

Linked entry: brycg-weard

heáh

(adv.)
Grammar
heáh, adv.
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Hí woldon þone stán heár and gerysenlícor ásettan ut lapis amoueretur et altius reponeretur, Bd. 3, 8; Sch. 224, 9. fig, in an exalted position : — Swá micelum swá hé deóppur byð ásliden swá micelum swá hé hégur (excelsius) byþ upp áhafen, Scint. 84,

be-stelan

(v.)
Grammar
be-stelan, bi-stelan; p. -stæl, pl. -stǽlon; subj. p. -stǽle, pl. -stǽlen; pp. -stolen

To steal away or uponfugere, obrepere

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Hí nihtes bestǽlon ðære fyrde they stole upon the army by night, Chr. 876; Erl. 79, 13. Ðý-læs he on niht onweg fluge and bestǽle lest he should have fled and stole away by night, Bd. 4, 22; S. 591, 11

be-standan

(v.)
Grammar
be-standan, p. -stód, pl. -stódon; pp. -standen

To stand by or near, to stand around, surround, to stand on or upon, occupy, detainadstare, circumstare, circumdare, detinere

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Th. 133, 51; By. 68. Ahrede me æt ðám ðe me habbaþ útan bestanden redime me a circumdantibus me, Ps. Th. 31, 8.

Linked entry: be-stód

Bret-walda

(n.)
Grammar
Bret-walda, an; m.

A ruler of the Saxons in Britain, the chief Saxon king in EnglandSaxonum in Britannia rex supremus.

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Turner and Lappenberg suppose that the Bretwalda was elected by the other Saxon kings and by the collected nobility and other electors in Britain, because Hunt. lib. ii. about A.

slite

(n.)
Grammar
slite, es; m.

a slit, tear, rent in cloth,a rent, tear made by an animal, a bitea coila breach, infraction of a law

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Se slite byþ wyrsa pejor scissura fit Mt. Kmbl. 9, 16; Mk. Skt. 2, 21. a rent, tear made by an animal, a bite Similar entries v. slítan, IV. Wið hundes slite Lchdm. i. 148, 7. Íces slite oððe hundes ii. 86, 2. Be hundes slite.

Linked entry: slítan

rand-burh

(n.)
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Or are the walls formed by the water compared to the arrangement of the line of battle when the shields overlapped, called scild-burh q. v. ? v. next word

of-weorpan

(v.)

to kill by casting (a stone, etc. ) to knock down and kill by a missile

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to kill by casting (a stone, etc. ) to knock down and kill by a missile David nam fíf stánas and ðeáhhweðere mid ánum hé ðone gigant ofwearp. Blickl. Homl. 31, 18. David mid his liðeran ofwearp ðone geleáfleásan ent, Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 18 : Homl.

for-legen

adulterous

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Eallswá scyldig byð geteald se forlegena cniht swá ꝥ forlegene mǽden, Hml. A. 20, 152. For mé earmlicre forlegenre, Hml. S. 23 b, 598.

gyltig

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Add: culpable, delinquent Gil hit gelimpð for oferflówen hysse metes oððe drinces, he byð gyltig (citlpabilis), Ll. Th. ii. 200, 31. Se bróðor, sé þe giltig ámeldod bið þám abbode þurh óðerne man and nó þurh hine selfne, R. Ben. 71, 13.

weorþ

(adj.)
Grammar
weorþ, adj.
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Ꝥ word byð wítes wyrðe (wíte wyrðe or wítewyrðe, v.l.) sermo reprehenditur, Gr. D. 208, 8. Add Hé wæs swelce Rómáne þá wyrþe wǽron dignus Romanis punitor, Ors. 6, 3 ; S. 256, 24.

wæter-seóc

(adj.)
Grammar
wæter-seóc, adj.

Dropsical

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Ydropicus byð se wæterseóca, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 56;Zup. 68, 3. Wæterseóces mannes þurst gecélan, Lchdm, i. 146, 13. Hit fremaþ ðam wæterseócan 204, 2, Wæterseóce hydropicorum, Hpt. Gl. 478, 3. Heó gehnǽceþ ða anginnu ðám wæterseócum, i. 272, 15.

ǽw-fæst

(adj.)
Grammar
ǽw-fæst, adj.

firm in observing the lawreligiousbound by the lawmarriedreligiosusvinculo nuptiarum constrictus

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firm in observing the law, religious, bound by the law, married; religiosus, vinculo nuptiarum constrictus Ǽwfæst religiosus, Scint. 28. Ǽwfæst man a married man, L. C. S. 51; Th. i. 404, 21

Linked entry: ǽ-fæst

án-lápe

(adj.)
Grammar
án-lápe, adj.

Going aloneone by onesinguli

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Going alone, one by one; singuli Ánlápum oððe syndrigum hond gesette singulis manus imposuit, Lk. Lind. War. 4, 40. Ða síe awritten ánlápum quae scribantur per singula, Jn. Lind. War. 21, 25

Linked entry: án-lápum

ceallian

(v.)
Grammar
ceallian, ode; od;[calla = a caller, herald]

To CALL, cry out, shoutclamare

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Th. 134, 28; By. 91

efn

(adj.; prep.; adv.)
Grammar
efn, adj.

Even, equal æquus, plānus, æquālis

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On even ground, by, near, aside with; in æquāli, juxta, Beo. Th. 5798; B. 2903

Linked entry: on-efn

for-heáwan

(v.)
Grammar
for-heáwan, p. -heów; pp. -heáwen

To hewcut downcut in piecesslaughterconcīdĕreoccīdĕre

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Th. 135, 9; By. 115

twínen

(adj.)
Grammar
twínen, adj.
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Gl. 526, 30: at the same place, byssina is rendered by línen) twínen subucula bissina, Anglia xiii. 37, 285

Linked entry: twín

þri-fingre

(adv.)
Grammar
þri-fingre, adv.

By a distance equal to the breadth of three fingers

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By a distance equal to the breadth of three fingers Gif se ord sié þreofingre ufor ðonne hindeweard sceaft, L. Alf. pol. 36; Th. i. 84, 17. Cf. Grmm. R. A. l01

wór-hana

(n.)
Grammar
wór-hana, an; m.

A pheasant

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Voc. ii. 34, 71: fusiaims, i. 280, 29: fursianus (fursianus is glossed by mórhana. Hpt. Zeit. 33, 240, 27), 62, 24

Linked entry: mór-hana