Eást-Seaxe
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Eást-Sexena landes is syofon þúsend hýda, C. D. B. i. 414, 30. Add
an-bíd
Awaiting ⬩ expectation ⬩ expectatio ⬩ mora
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Næs ic on náuht [ne, áht, áuht] ídlum anbíde, ðeáh hit me lang anbíd þúhte, ðá ðá ic anbídode Godes fultumes expectans, expectavi Dominum, Ps. Th. 39, 1. Earmra anbíd the expectation of the miserable, Cd. 169; Th. 212, 2; Exod. 533: Elen.
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á-mǽran
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To exterminate Ne wæs ǽnig cyninga ꝥ má hiora landa út (úte v. l.) ámǽrde and him tó gewealde underþeódde nemo in regibus plures eorum terras, exterminatis indigenis, tributarias fecit, Bd. 1, 34; Sch. 104, 3.
eáþe
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Eáðre mé þincð on drígum lande tó farande, Solil. H. 21, 23. of persons, easy to be entreated, gentle Þú eart eáðe God . . . þú eart sóð Metod . . . þú eart Hǽlend God, Hy. 3, 4-9
þreátung
compulsion ⬩ force ⬩ violence ⬩ oppression ⬩ ill-treatment ⬩ rebuke ⬩ reproof ⬩ threatening
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Hié heora land tó bismere oferhergodan, and him ðæs nǽnige bóte dydon búton ofermódlíce wíg and þreátunge they harried their land, and for that they made them no amends, but in their arrogance made war on them and harassed them, Blickl.
æfes-weorc
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Pasturage Æfsweorc sive lǽnes landes bryce fructus Wrt. Voc. ii. 39, 31, v. æfese, æfesn
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sliht
a striking of coin. ⬩ a stroke ⬩ flash of lightning ⬩ slaughter ⬩ death by violence
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Icel. slátr butcher's meat; slátra to slaughter cattle) Gafolswáne gebyreþ ðæt hé sylle his slyht be ðam ðe on lande stent. On manegum landum stent ðæt hé sylle ǽlce geáre . xv. swýn tó sticunge, L. R. S. 6; Th. i. 436, 11
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sceatt
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Ðæne dǽl ðæs landes ðe se arcebisceop for his sceatte him tó lét, C. D. iii. 352, 7. Þone sceat þe on þám lande stent the mortgage money, Cht. Crw. 9, 120.
heolor-bledu
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The scale of a balance Mid þá efnan helurblede justa lance, Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 40
scegð
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Syððan hé tó lande cymþ, ðonne forlǽt hé ðæt scyp standan; for ðam him þincþ syððan ðæt hé mǽge ǽð bútan faran ðonne mid.
Etna
Etna, the volcano of Sicily
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On ðam geáre, asprang up Etna fýr on Sicilium, and máre ðæs landes forbærnde ðonne hit ǽfre ǽr dyde in that year [B. C. 135 ], fire sprang up from Etna among the Sicilians, and burnt more of the land than it ever did before, Ors. 5, 2; Bos. 103, 16.
ge-lǽtan
To allow ⬩ make over to any one
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To allow, make over to any one Eádgár æðeling wearþ belandod of ðám ðe se eorl him ǽror to handa gelǽten hæfde Edgar Atheling was deprived of those lands which the earl had before made over to him, Chr. 1091; Erl. 227, 24.
westane
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From the west, in the west Ða beorgas onginnaþ westane fram ðæm Wendelsǽ in Narbonense ðære ðeóde, and endiaþ eást in Dalmatia ðæm lande æt ðæm sǽ Alpes a Gallico mari exsurgentes, primum Narbonensium fines, deinde Galliam Rhetiamque secludunt, donec
cyne-wíse
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Ðeós cwén on þám lande manege nytwyrðe dǽda gefremede Gode tó lofe, and eác on þá kynewísan wel geþéh ( she proved too of great advantage to the state ), Chr. 1067; P. 202, 17
Gyrwas
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Norþ-, Súþ-Gyrwas On Gyrwan (Gyrwa, v. l. ) lande in regione Gyrviorum, Bd. 4, 6; Sch. 381, 19.
ham
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'It is so frequently coupled with words implying the presence of water as to render it probable that, like the Friesic hemmen, it denotes a piece of land surrounded with paling, wicker-work, etc., and so defended against the stream, which would otherwise
un-tíma
a wrong time ⬩ an improper time ⬩ a bad time ⬩ an unhappy condition of things ⬩ a mishap
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French malheur) Ic ásende ofer eówer land ǽlcne untíman, ðæt bið egeslíce greát hagol, se fordéð eówre wæstmas, and unásecgendlíce þunras..., Wulfst. 297, 7
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be-gang
exercise ⬩ labour ⬩ business ⬩ cultivation ⬩ religious practice
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H. 113, 30, cultivation Fram ǽlce bi-gonge (cultura) þis land ligeð tólýsed, Gr. D. 258, 18. religious practice Ðǽre godcundnesse begang (bigong, v.l.) diuinitatis cultus, Bd. 2, 13; Sch. 164, 10. Bigeon[g] ðes cultus isle, Rtl. 24, 21.
butsa-carlas
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['The " butsecarls" stand in the same relation to the "scip-fyrd" that the housecarls occupy towards the " land-fyrd "; i. e. they are the king's standing force, as opposed to the national levies.
dípe
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Ofer dýpe, Rä. 4, 21. a deep place on land On dígelre dýpe [dýpen (= -an), Hpt. Gl. 516, 28] in latebroso (carceris) fundo, An. Ox. 4767. [v. N. E. D. deep; sb. Goth. diupei: O. L. Ger. diupí profundum: O. H. Ger. tiufi: Icel. dýpi