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leác-tric

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See leáh-tric

Linked entries: leáh-tric léh-tric

leód-geþyncþ

(n.)
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leód-geþyncþ, es. l.

leód-hwæt

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In the passage l. leódhwata, and add: cf. brego-róf, cyning-beald

leód-wita

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Add: cf. þeód-wita

líf-fæst

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Add: having life, quickened, Vy. 6 (in Dict.) life-giving Þá lýffæstan gerýnu ( the eucharistic elements'), Hml. S. 23 b, 625. settled in respect to domicile Ic wille ǽrist mé siolfne Gode forgeofan tó ðére stówe æt Crístes cirican, and mín bearn dér

líf-leás

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Add: that has ceased to live Sum man . . . his feorh forlét. . . . Se hálga wer geneálǽhte þám lífleásan men (cf. þone sáwlleásan líchaman, Hml. S. 31, 249), Hml. Th. ii. 504, 35. not endowed with life Geoffrian heora lac þám lífleásum godum. Hml. S

líf-welle

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Add: life-giving. Cf. dead-wille

líg-berend

(n.; adj.)
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líg-berend, <b>líg-berend,</b> es; m.
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AJlame-bearer; flam-miger, Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 9. Líg-berende; adj. Flame-bearing; flam-miger, Wrt. Voc. ii. 36, 52. Substitute:

lim-gesihþ

(n.)
Grammar
lim-gesihþ, physical vision, sight by means of the bodily eye (? cf. A man has na lym þat he is warere wiþ þan wiþ his eghe, Hamp. Ps. 16, 9. Þe lyme of syȝte
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organum visus, N. E. D. under limb; I) Ealle menn árísað mid limgesihðum (corporibus), Ps. Rdr. 301, 4

Linked entry: ge-siht

lim-wérig

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Add: — Limwǽrigne, Txts. 126, 16

lín-æcer

(n.)
Grammar
lín-æcer, (?), es; m.
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A field where flax is grown In línæceran (be ?) wege þám innmæstan ; of línaceran innan ðone hege, Cht. . 239, 10, Cf. lín-leáh, fleax-æcer

lín-leáh

(n.)
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lín-leáh, f.
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A flax-field On línleáge geat, and ðonne on línleáge middewearde, C. D. ii. 172, 14. On línleáge eástewearde, v. 207, 21

lín-sǽd

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Genim línsǽd, gegriud, bríwe wið þám elmes drænce; ꝥ bið gód sealf foredum lime, Lch. ii. 66, 25. On længctene . . . línséd sáwan, Angl. ix. 262, 10. Add: —

lín-wǽd

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Þá línwǽda linteamina, Angl. xiii. 428, 894. Add

mǽr-lacu

(n.)
Grammar
mǽr-lacu, a boundary stream, v. lacu,
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where also see gemǽr-lacu

-menged-líce

(adv.; suffix)

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-metend-líce

(adv.; suffix)

Similar entry: wiþ-metendlíce

mis-lár

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Substitute : Incitement to evil, suggestion Sé þe gelustfullunge gemídlað gálfulre misláre ( auggestionis ), Scint. 88, 7. Gif forman misláre (suggestioni) ná byþ wiðstanden, 210, 10. Onþæslice gewilnunga flǽsclicra mislára inportunas desideriorum carnalium

módig-líce

(adv.)
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Add:

mund-leów

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Munléuu vescada Txts. 104, 1055. Hé hét geótan wæter on mundleów misit aquam in pelvem Hml. A. 155, 102. Add

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