Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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súþ-weardes

(adv.)
Grammar
súþ-weardes, adv.
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Southwards, in the south, Met. 1, 4

-swidung

(suffix)
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in ge-swidung. Lchdm. iii. 168, 2

æ-swáp

Grammar
æ-swáp, v. swǽpa
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in Dict., and An. Ox. 608: 4155

brycg-bót

Grammar
brycg-bót, v. bric-bót
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in Dict., and see the following word

drófig

(adj.)
Grammar
drófig, adj.
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See first passage under dróf in Dict

ge-heálgian

(v.)
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In l. 4 for 13 read 12

ge-cláþian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-cláþian, p. ode
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To clothe, v. ge-cláded in Dict

Linked entry: ge-cláded

ge-unwendness

(n.)
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In the passage read geunwendnes for ungewendnes

hilfling

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Take here helfling in Dict., and add:

hwǽstrian

(v.)
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Take here hwástrian in Dict., and add:

holt-wudu

(n.)
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In Kr. 91 the MS. has holmwudu

morgen-mete

(n.)
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In l. 3 for 129 l. 192

ríp-ness

(n.)
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In l. 2 read 39 for 29

sám-wís

(adj.)
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In l. 4 for 201 l. 202

bed-gerid

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Substitute : The food in an ants' nest

ge-springan

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Substitute: To spring. to burst forth, of a fluid to spirt out, of sparks, drops, &c. (lit. or fig.), to fly Þæt blód gesprang, B. 1667. Of þám wróhtdropan wíde gesprungon, Gn. Ex. 196. of energetic speech, to burst forth in words In ðæt mearda

COT

(n.)
Grammar
COT, cott, es; pl. nom. acc. cotu; gen. cota; dat. cotum, cottum; n.

A COT ⬩ cottage ⬩ house ⬩ bed-chamber ⬩ den ⬩ casa ⬩ domus ⬩ cubiculum ⬩ cubile ⬩ spelunca

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A COT, cottage, house, bed-chamber, den; casa, domus, cubiculum, cubile, spelunca Onbútan ða cotu about the cots Cod. Dipl. 551; A. D. 969; Kmbl. iii. 35, 6. Ongeán ða cotu towards the cots 559; A. D. 969; Kmbl. iii. 52, 16. We witan ðæt hý ne durran

Linked entries: eald-cot cott

K

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THE letter k appears to have had no distinct duty to perform in the oldest English, but to have been a mere variant of c. In the MSS. (more particularly the Cotton) of Alfred's translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care, where in the words kyning, kyun &

hér-bufan

(adv.)
Grammar
hér-bufan, adv.

Here above

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Here above Swá swá wé ǽr hérbiufan sǽdon on ðisse ilcan béc as we said before above in this same book; sicut in priori hujus voluminis parte jam diximus, Past. 50, 4; Swt. 393, 2

Linked entries: be-ufan hér

ge-pós

(n.)
Grammar
ge-pós, es; n.

The POSE, a cold in the head, catarrh ⬩ grăvēdo

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The POSE, a cold in the head, catarrh; grăvēdo Wið gepósu for colds in the head, Herb. 46, 1; Lchdm. i. 148, 12. Wið gepósum for poses, L. M. 1, 10; Lchdm. ii. 54, 17

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