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lacu

Grammar
lacu, For 'A pool ...
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Be healfan stréme intó Sandfordes læce; swá andlang ðǽre lace intó Sandforda; of Sandforda eást andlang ðǽre lace, C.D. iv. 134, 21-24. Oð ðá lace; andlang lace út on Temese, v. 302, 34: 330, 28: vi. 2, 12: vi. 8, 26. On þá fúlan lace, v. 13, 22.

-læg

(suffix)
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Add: ge-læg (at ge-lagu), ofer-læg

lama

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Lama debilis Wrt. Voc. i. 75, 40. Sum mǽden wearð lama quaedam puella paralytica Gr. D. 228, 9. Seó wæs ǽr fíf geár loma, Shrn. 128, 20. Þes lama wǽdla búton handcræfte (cf. sé læg bedryda fram cildháde oð his geendunge, 96, 21), Hml.

land

Grammar
land, <b>. I.</b>
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L. 15, 15. a land, ridge in a ploughed field. v. heáfod-land, land-gewyrpe Eást on ðá furh; ðæt tó ðám sceortan lond, C. D. iii. 437, 24. Tó ðon eásteran lande, v. 194, 27. On ðæt scorte land súðeweard, 379, 32.

láþ

(adj.)
Grammar
láþ, adj.
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Láþ inuitam (but perhaps the glosser has read inuisam ), An Ox. 5406

bí-lage

(n.)
Grammar
bí-lage, [bí by, near, lagu a law]

A BYE-LAWlex privata

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A BYE-LAW; lex privata,Chr. W. Thorn. an. 1303

lǽs

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Seó lǽs is tóforan eallum mannum gemǽne on ðám hǽðfelda the pasture on the heathfield lies open to admit all men C. D. iii. 419, 21. Án lǽs on waruðe, 429, 16. Sceáp lǽsuwe (léswe, Ps. Srt.) his oues pascuae eius Ps. L. 99, 3. On stówe lǽswen (lǽswe?

late

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Add: slowly Þá mettas þe late melten, Lch. ii. 176, 23. Listnie and late gange let him listen and go slowly (?); gradu lento [but late might be instrumental of læt], Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 76.

laga

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Laga statutum Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 80. Add

lang

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Lang bið syððan þæt se gást nimeð æt Gode . . . Seel. 5. Ne bið lang ofer þæt þæt Israhéla æðelu móten rícsian, El. 432

lást

(adj.)
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Lást orbitae, Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 73. ¶ on lást afterwards, at last :-- Heó on lást tiliað tó cwémanne Gode and mannum mid wordum postea in ore suo benedicent Ps. Th. 48, 12.

leáh

Grammar
leáh, lye.
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Leág, lǽg lexiva Txts. 74, 591. Lǽcedónias wiþ miclum heáfodece . . . and sealf tó þon ilcan, and leáh and eágsealfa, Lch. ii. 172, 28 : 302, 23. Add

laser

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Laser zizania Wrt. Voc. ii. 124, 28. Þurh þæs sǽd þe ǽgðer sǽwð ge laser ge coccul, Angl. viii. 300, 24. Lasera, coccela loliorum, zizaniorum Hpt. Gl. 462, 23. Add

lata

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For the passage substitute Þeáh þe heó þæs bearnes lata wǽre, heó þonne Gode (þæs bearnes MS., but see Latin) nóht lata ne wæs erat tarda soboli, sed non tarda Deo Archiv cxxii. 248, 20-22; Bl. H. 163, 8

lamb

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Swá swá lamb þonne hit man scyrð, Hml. Th. ii. 16, 21. Sceáphyrdes riht is ꝥ hé hæbbe . . . .i. lamb of geáres geogeðe, Ll. Th. i. 438, 23. Lombur scépa agni ovium Ps. Srt. 113, 4. Lomberu, 6. Lo[m]bra agnorum ii. 193, 1. .xx. lamba, C.

leáh

(n.)
Grammar
leáh, g. leás; m.

A leameadow

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A lea, meadow, open space, untilled land Ðanne is ðér se leáh ðe man ðæt lond mid friþe haldan scæl an eásthealfe sió ealdæ strǽt c. now there is the open space(?) by which the land is protected; on the east side the old road c., Cod. Dip.

Linked entries: leáh léh

leác

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Laec ambila Wrt. Voc. ii. 100, 20. Leác alium, 6, 53: allium i. 78, 72. Hé leác sette he planted vegetables Shrn. 61, 20. v. cípe-, rysc-leác, fugeles leác. Add

lǽl

Grammar
lǽl, <b>. I.</b>
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Add: Lǽl liuor, An. Ox. 32, 24. ¶ The word glosses linor = envy :-- Lę́la liuoris (rancida liuoris inuidia, Ald. 40, 14), An. Ox. 4, 52. Cf. lǽlian

lám-seáðe

(n.)
Grammar
lám-seáðe, [?], an; f.
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Substitute: <b>lám-seáþ</b>, es; m. Cf. lám*-*pytt for use of the plural

Eota land

(n.)
Grammar
Eota land, es; n.

The land of the Jutes, Jutland Jūtia

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The land of the Jutes, Jutland; Jūtia Mǽgþ seó is gecýd Eota land a province which is called Jutland, Bd. 4, 16; S. 584, 24