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Anglo-Saxon

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felt-wurma

(n.)
Grammar
felt-wurma, an; m. [felt = feld?]

The plant wild marjoram ⬩ orĭgănum

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Ben. Lye: Lchdm. Glos. vol. iii. p. 349, col. 2, 32

Linked entry: feld-wurma

flóde

(n.)
Grammar
flóde, an; f.

A place where anything flows ⬩ a channel ⬩ sink ⬩ gutter ⬩ cloāca ⬩ lăcūna

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Ben. Lye

bí-leofen

(n.)
Grammar
bí-leofen, -lifen, e; f. [bí, leofen living, livelihood]

Food, provisions ⬩ annona, pulmentum

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Ben. 43. Bílifen pulmentum, Cot. 171

Linked entry: bí-lifen

un-álífedlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-álífedlíce, adv.

Unlawfully

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Ben. 16, 19. Unálýfedlíce illicite, Dial. 2, 2

druncen-scipe

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Ben. Lye' Gif ðá druncengeornan men heora druncenscipes geswícan nellað, Hml. A. 145, 34

feþer-cræft

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Ben. Lye' substitute

hand-cræft

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Ben. 95, 16. Add

hlúd-clipol

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Ben. I. 35, II. Add

for-lǽtan

Grammar
for-lǽtan, <b>; II.</b>
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Ben. 4, 18. Add

Cone-ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Cone-ceaster, gen. -ceastre; f.

Caster, a town seven miles from Newcastle ⬩ oppidum septimo a Novo-castro milliario

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Ben. Lye

á-werian

(v.)

to wear out

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Ben. 88, 12

grǽdiglíce

(adv.)
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Ben. 139, 27

hnifol-crumb

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with the face bent downwards Hnifol-crump, gebíged cernua curvaque (cf. cernua curvaque vetustas, Ald. 18, 17), Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 46, 47. Nióle oððe hnifolcrumbe cernuas 18, 42. Substitute:

sendlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
sendlíc, adj.
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Ben. Interl. 113, 4

un-sceádlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-sceádlíce, un-sceádelíce; adv.

Unreasonably

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Ben. 54, 13

un-slæclíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-slæclíce, adv.

Not slackly ⬩ not languidly ⬩ strenuously

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Ben. 20, 18

Linked entry: slæclíce

un-geswícendlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-geswícendlíce, adv.

Unceasingly ⬩ incessantly

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Ben. 19, 4 note

Linked entry: ge-swícendlíce

rest-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
rest-leás, ;adj.;

Restless, disturbed

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Ben. 121, 14

hnípan

(v.)
Grammar
hnípan, (?)

to bow

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to bow, bend the head Ásige ł hnípte (hnimpte. An. Ox. 1579) procumberet, caderet Hpt. Gl. 443, 50. Hnípendre (hnipendre = hnipiendre ?) curua An. Ox. 1279. Hnipenre cernua Hpt. Gl. 436, 61

Linked entries: hnipend hnipian hnippan

edisc-weard

(n.)
Grammar
edisc-weard, es; m.

The keeper of edish, of a park, warren, etc ⬩ vivarii custos

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Ben. Lye

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