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Anglo-Saxon

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Dorm-ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Dorm-ceaster, gen. -ceastre; f. [by the Britons called Cair-Dorm, by Antonīnus Durobrivæ, from the passage over the water; and the Anglo-Saxons, for the same reason, called it also Dornford]

Dornford or Dorgford, in Huntingdonshire, on the river Nen

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Ben. Lye

feld-rude

(n.)
Grammar
feld-rude, an; f.

Wild rue ⬩ silvestris rŭta

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Wild rue; silvestris rŭta, Ben. Lye: Lchdm. Glos. vol. iii. p. 325

fell

(adj.)
Grammar
fell, adj.

Fell ⬩ cruel ⬩ severe ⬩ crūdēlis

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Ben. Lye. Similar entries v. fel; adj

flot-smere

(n.)
Grammar
flot-smere, es; n. [smeru fat, grease]

Floating fat ⬩ scum of a pot ⬩ pinguēdo ollæ sŭpernătans

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Ben. Lye

Linked entry: smeoru

framian

(v.)

to avail ⬩ profit ⬩ vălēre ⬩ prōdesse

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Ben. 64, 72: R. Conc. 7

frécne-stíg

(n.)
Grammar
frécne-stíg, e; f.

A dangerous way or path ⬩ steep place ⬩ precipice ⬩ præcĭpĭtium

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Ben. Lye

frý-gyld

(n.)
Grammar
frý-gyld, es; n.

A free guild or society ⬩ lībĕrum sodālĭtium vel collegium

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Ben. Lye

Linked entry: freó-gyld

fyrdinga

(adv.)
Grammar
fyrdinga, adv.

In companies or flocks ⬩ by bands or multitudes ⬩ catervātim

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Ben. Lye

ge-ágennud

(v.)
Grammar
ge-ágennud, part. [ágen own]

Adopted ⬩ adoptīvus

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Ben. Lye

þeóf

(n.)
Grammar
þeóf, e; f.
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Ben. Interl. 19, 12

un-ácumendlícness

(n.)
Grammar
un-ácumendlícness, e; f.

Unbearableness ⬩ impossibility to be borne

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Ben. Interl. 114, 9

endemestness

Grammar
endemestness, endemest-ness (? ende-néhstness)

extremity

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Ben. I. 33, 15. Substitute:

for-wracnian

(v.)
Grammar
for-wracnian, p. ode
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Ben. 82, 2

ge-grétlic

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-grétlic, adj.
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Ben. I. 103, 6

ge-fandung

(n.)
Grammar
ge-fandung, e; f.
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Ben. 107, 9 note

Linked entry: fandung

ge-cwémlic

Grammar
ge-cwémlic, For pleased read
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Ben. I. 78, 5

Linked entry: cwém-lic

twéntig-feald

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Ben. I. 54, 15. Add

æt-speornan

Grammar
æt-speornan, <b>; II.</b>
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Ben. 5, 2

un-wrigedness

(n.)
Grammar
un-wrigedness, (-wrigenness?), e; f.

A revelation

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Ben. Interl. 42, 16

Linked entries: wrigedness wrigenness

weald

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
weald, adj.

Powerful ⬩ mighty

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Ben. 117, 5

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