seón
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Add: 2 a. with an infinitive that has no subject Ic seah rǽpingas in ræced fergan, Rä. 53, 1. add: the imperative used exclamatorily Seh þé ecce (Lanc. sithee ), Ps. Vos. 7, 15
hold-rǽden
Faithfulness, ⬩ loyalty, ⬩ faithful discharge of duty to a superior
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Faithfulness, loyalty, faithful discharge of duty to a superior Hire hyrdeman þurh holdrǽdene sume ác ástáh her herdsman in the discharge of his duty had ascended an oak, Homl. Th. ii. 150, 30
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ilding
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Gif fǽrunga cymð se ýtemesta dæg, þonne bið losod seó yldi[n]g if the lost day comes suddenly to the man who has deferred his conversion, the time during which he has delayed will be lost (?), Archiv cxxii. 257, 17. Ylding dilalionis, Wrt.
riht-hamscyld
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As ham denotes a garment, it seems as if the English text might be a corrupt form of a law corresponding to the former of these two, and in the same note the following emendation is suggested: Gif man on unriht ham oððe scyld (= uestem seu scutum) þurhstinð
án-for-lǽtan
To leave alone ⬩ lose ⬩ relinquish ⬩ forsake ⬩ amittere
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To leave alone, lose, relinquish, forsake; amittere Ðú nú án-forléte thou hast now lost, Bt. 7, 3; Fox 20, 12: Bd. 1, 27, resp. 3; S. 490, 25: 4, 10; S. 578, 34
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sige-beorht
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Rendered illustrious by victory, triumphant Hié swá sigebeorhte and swá gebégde mid mycelre blisse tó hám fóran, Blickl. Homl. 203, 30. Cf. the proper name Sigebryht, -berht, Chr. 755 ; Erl. 48, 18 : Txts. 512
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cemes
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Substitute: A shirt Ham, cemes camisa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 13, 23. Bútan his kemese and eác gelómlíce bútan his tunecan hé eft cyrde sine linea, crebro etiam sine tunica revertebatur, Gr. D. 68, 6
drisn
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the hair-like filaments that hang from the root of a plant? Cf. rúh, <b>I,</b> and dreósan), Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 39. Add
súgan
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The verb seems to describe hiccough, and the passage at Lch. ii. 192, 13 might be translated 'when he has hiccough'. The form at Lch. ii. 160, 1 is sýgeþ
swefecere
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A sleeper Þá gedwyldmen man hǽt on Grécisc Nictates ( = Nyctages), and wé on úre geþeóde slúmeras hí magon oððe swefeceras nemnan, and eác hí man mæg sláperas hátan, Chrd. 26, 2. See next word
sóþ-bora
A truth-bearer ⬩ one who has exact knowledge
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A truth-bearer, one who has exact knowledge Ðone hæleð higegleáwe hátaþ wíde cométa be naman, cræftgleáwe men, wíse sóðboran (other MSS. have wóþboran, which suits better the alliteration), Chr. 975; Erl. 126, 27
be-reccan
to relate ⬩ recount ⬩ explain ⬩ narrare ⬩ exponere ⬩ to explain one's conduct ⬩ justify one's self ⬩ se excusare ⬩ se purgare ⬩ accusatorum criminibus respondere
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C. bereccean] mǽgen they always seek endless excuses, how they may justify themselves, Past. 35, 2; Hat. MS. 45 a, 19. Him wæs lýfnesse seald ðæt he him móste scyldan and besecgan [MS.
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for-pǽran
To turn away ⬩ pervert ⬩ ruin ⬩ destroy ⬩ pervertĕre ⬩ perdĕre
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Past. 39, 3; Hat. MS. 53 b, 8. Gif we us sylfe ne forpǽraþ if we do not destroy ourselves, Homl. Th. i. 216, 9: ii. 50, 5. Adam us forpǽrde þurh ánes æpples þigene Adam ruined us by the eating of an apple, Homl. Th. ii. 330, 32.
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BODIG
bigness or height of body, stature ⬩ statura ⬩ the trunk, chest or parts of the chest, as the back-bone ⬩ truncus corporis ⬩ the BODY ⬩ corpus
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Voc. 283, 26: spina, Cot. 177: 196. the BODY; corpus Ǽgðer ge his fét ge his heáfod ge eác eall ðæt bodig either his feet or his head or even all the body, Past. 35, 3; Hat. MS. 45 b, 12
EOFOR
a boar, a wild boar ⬩ ăper
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II. the figure of a boar on a helmet; signum apri sŭper găleam Swýn eal-gylden, eofer íren-heard the swine all-golden, the boar iron-hard, Beo. Th. 2228; B. 1112: 2660; B. 1328
læs
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Næfð nán man tó þæs hál eágan þæt hé ǽni hwíle mage lócigan ongeán þas sunnan þe wé hǽr geseóð, and húru þæs þe lǽs ( all the less ) gyf heó hefð unhále, Solil. H. 35, 1. Hys mé lyst swá læng swá lǽs, 36, 17.
íðe
Easy ⬩ pleasant
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Ús ðis se æðeling ýðre gefremede this the prince has made easier for us, Exon. 17 a ; Th. 39, 25; Cri. 627
þrág-bisig
Occupied for a time(?) ⬩ periodically employed(?)
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But the verse requires þrág, while the verb,þrægan, has a short vowel; and þrág seems always(?) used in the sense of time
heáfod-segn
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It would seem, then, to have been an ensign, which had at the head of its shaft ( hilte ) the figure of a boar. Perhaps the poet of the Exodus had the same kind of ensign in mind where he says that the tribe of Judah, ' '
spannan
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S. 9, 106. to join in matrimony Span[n]an adjungere (has sponsi ad prolem generis satagunt adjungere nuptas, Ald. 200, 10), An.