Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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bi-seón

(v.)

to see

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to see. l. to strain upon

bén-feorm

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Substitute: A bean-feast. Cf. winter-feorm

bén-ríp

Grammar
bén-ríp, v. Seebohm Vill. Comm. s. v.
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Precariae

beó-móder

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Seó beómóder cosdrus, An. Ox. 258. Beómódra principum (apum), 240. Add

beó-þeóf

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Wolde gedón sum man reáflác on ðám ylcum beón, Gr. D. 229, 12. Add:cf

fearn-bed

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Fearnbed filiscetum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 35, 50: 148, 53 (gearn-, MS.). Andlang weges oꝥ hit cymꝥ tó fearnbedde, C.D.B. ii. 386, 13. For 'R. 85, Lye' substitute

fer-bed

A litter

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A litter Ferbed bajanula, Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 32. Substitute:

forliger-bed

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Ná on forligerbeddum and unclǽnnyssum non in cubilibus et impudicitiis (Rom. 13, 13), Hml. Th. i. 602, 4. Add

gearn-bed

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heorot-beg

(n.)
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some kind of berry Murus eorum i. pro omni feraci arbore posuit .i. aliquando fructus eius albus, aliquando rufus, aliquando niger .i. herutbeg (note on Ps. 78, 45), An. Ox. 54, 2

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herut-beg

Similar entry: heorot-beg

bed-cláþ

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Preósta bedcláðas ( lectualia ), Chrd. 65, 15. Add

bí-genga

Similar entry: eorþ-bígenga

bí-gengness

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ǽ-béc

Similar entry: ǽ-bóc

bed-clýfa

Grammar
bed-clýfa, l. -cleofa (-clyfa).
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In bedcleofan (cubili) his, Ps. Srt. 35, 5. Bedcleofum cubilibus, 4, 5: 149, 5. Add

bed-wahrift

Grammar
bed-wahrift, l. -wáh- (-wág-).

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bed-þén

Grammar
bed-þén, -þeg(e)n.
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Bedþegn cubicularius, custos cubili, Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 37. Add

westan-súþan

(n.; adj.; adv.)
Grammar
westan-súþan, in be-westansúþan
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to the south-west Be-westansúðan Corinton, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 22, 10, 24, 27

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bóc

(n.)
Grammar
bóc, g. bóce? béc; d. béc; acc. bóc; pl. nom. acc. béc; g. bóca; d. bócum, bócan; f.

a BOOK ⬩ liber ⬩ a charter ⬩ charta ⬩ for the books which a priest ought to possess ⬩ for his canonical hours

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a BOOK; liber Seó bóc is on Englisc awend the book is turned into English, Homl. Th. ii. 358, 30. On fórewerd ðære bóce [MS. bóc] oððe on heáfde bǽc awriten is be me in capite libri scriptum est de me, Ps. Lamb. 39, 9.

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