Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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sáre

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Gyf hwá hæfð his hláforde sáre ábolgen, Wlfst. 155, 7. Add

sæc

(adj.)
Grammar
sæc, adj.

hostile, offensive, hateful ⬩ guilty,

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(-sæc) guilty, charged with guilt. and

Linked entry: bí-sæc

sæl

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Dele 'Icel. salr a hall' in bracket, and add:

see

Linked entries: mamorian middan-geard

swǽ

Similar entry: swá

sǽn

(adj.)
Grammar
sǽn, adj.
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Marine On sǽnum in glari(g)eris, An. Ox. 8, 128. Sénum, 6, 23. On sǽnum in marinis, 8, 157. Sǽnunum, 7, 201

Linked entry: sǽnig

same

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Ǽlc hiera bið on óðres nytte swǽ sama (some, v. l. ) swǽ on his selfes, Past. 232, 5. Add

sápe

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Dó þǽron ealdre sápan cucler fulne, Lch. ii. 76, 12. Gewyrce tó flynan swá mon sápan wyrcð, 98, 6. Borige on þám beáme stór and finol and gehálgode sápan and gehálgod sealt, i. 402, 1. Ðonne þú sápan abban wille, þonne gníd þú þíne handa tógædere, Tech

sár

Grammar
sár, n.
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2. Add Saarum doloribus, Bd. 4, 19; Sch. 447, 12

-sæc

(suffix)

Linked entry: sæc

sæx

Similar entry: seax

sám-

(prefix)
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half-; the prefix denotes imperfection

Linked entry: sǽmra

scæ-

(prefix)

Linked entries: sca- scá- scǽ-

sál

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Add Sál collarium, An. Ox. 53, 5

sǽt

(n.)
Grammar
sǽt, To judge by the former of the two passages given here the word in the latter of them should mean a place of concealment for the hunter where he lies in wait for the game which is driven towards him. Such driving of game is described by the hunter in Ælfric's Colloquy, Th. An. 21, 13-22, 18.
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Sǽte haldan would mean to keep the game from avoiding the ambush into which it was being driven. Cf. ge-sǽte

slǽ

Similar entry: sleahe

sié

Similar entry: sí

sac

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sackcloth

ság

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Add: a depression (?), cf. sígan

sár

(adj.)
Grammar
sár, adj.
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Heó on eallum limum egeslice wunda hæfde . . . Heó wæs gehǽled, ꝥ on hire líce næs gesýne áht þǽra sárra wunda, Hml. S. 7, 278. Add

Linked entry: sárian

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