cawel-wyrm
A cabbage-worm, caterpillar ⬩ curculio, eruca
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A cabbage-worm, caterpillar; curculio, eruca Cawelwurrn gurgulu [ = curculio ], Ælfc. Gl. 23; Som. 59, 127; Wrt. Voc. 24, 2
Linked entry: wyrm
geolo
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Voc. ii. 87, 31 crocea þá geolwan.] ¶ used substantively (cf. preceding word) :-- Genim ǽges ꝥ geoluwe, Lch. ii. 22, 19. ¶ seó geolwe ádl jaundice :-- Wiþ þǽre geolwan ádle, Lch. ii. 106, 14: 172, 24: 294, 6.
ós
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Whether ós in the sense of god occurs as an independent word is doubtful.
Linked entry: ésa
telge
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Cockayne refers the word to telg and translates dyeing; but the passage at 190, 21, in which the same date is said to be 'eallum gód þingum gód' suggests a different meaning. The forms of the whole piece are corrupt. (?)
weorf
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Gl. 458, 1. v. next word
amer
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(v. next word)
ge-bǽte
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Hé hét þǽm þearfan ꝥ hors syllan mid þám cynelican gebǽtum (gerǽdum, v.l.) praecepit equum, ita ut erat stratus regaliter pauperi dari, 3, 14; Sch. 257, 14. v. preceding word
ofer-sewenness
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The word occurs only in legal documents.
Linked entry: ofer-gesewenness
heáfod-weard
A guarding of the [lord's] head, attendance as a guard upon the king. ⬩ a body-guard
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The word occurs in an enumeration of the services required of the thane and the 'geneat,' Th. i. 432, 8, 17. So in Beowulf it is said of Wiglaf that he 'healdeþ heáfodwearde,' keeps guard over the dead king, Beo. Th. 5811; B. 2909
frignung
Question ⬩ inquiry
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Question, inquiry Ac þá word mé secgendum óðru sócn and frignung ( fríninge, áxung, v.ll.) on mód becumen sed mihi haec dicenti alia suboritur quaestio, Gr. D. 137, 29.
Linked entry: frægning
frum-meolc
Milk fresh from the cow ⬩ the best milk
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, the best milk Frummeoluc nectar (in the same glossary nectar is variously rendered by wín, þone swétan smæc, wín-gedrinc, hunig oððe mildeáw, and nectareus by hunígteárlic, the word, as in later times, seems to have been used vaguely in a favourable
grislíc
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This word seems to belong to 'grísan' rather than to 'greósan,' so should be written with i rather than with y. The spelling in the Ormulum supports the short vowel
ie
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For words beginning with these combinations look under i, í, and see the preliminary remarks under the letter I
ege-leás
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Cf. ege-full, <b>II,</b> and see two following words
leóf
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La leóf nele hé gelýfan mínum wordum long ago 1 knew him, Sir ... Ah! Sir, he will not believe my words, Glostr. Frag. 2, 10, 19. Lá leóf O Lord, Gen. 18, 23, 25, 28, 30, 31.
heorcnian
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Hé heora wordum heorcnode, Hml. Th. i. 422 (not 442 as in Dict.), 2. with acc. Maria sæt heorcigende his láre (cf. his word heorcnigende, 440, 16), Hml. Th. ii. 438, 33
mid-eard
The world
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The world Mideardes ordfruman mundi originem, Hymn. Surt. 13, 30. Seó sunne ðe onlíht ealne mideard, Homl. Skt. 1, 72
Linked entry: eard
hrætele
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Rattle*-*wort Hrætelwyrt hierobotanum, Wrt. Voc. i. 68, 73
hón
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The words 'his hon' in l. 3 seem to be a repetition of 'his hon[godon] ' in 1. 2. (?)
orleg-weorc
War-work, action
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War-work, action Se ðæt orlegweorc ( the defeat of the people of Sodom) gecýðde, Cd. Th. 122, 2; Gen. 2020