leán
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See examples in Dict. with dat. of person, to speak with disapproval of something to a person, with the idea of dissuading or prohibiting Ne leá ic ðé ná ðæt ðú ǽgðer lufige I do not tell you that loving both is a bad thing Solil. H. 61, 17.
brýd-lác
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where a man marries a second wife, or a woman marries again, L.
swellan
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Wiþ ǽlcre yfelre swellendre wǽtan, Lchdm. ii. 6, 26. Swellende yfele swilas, 264, 12
Linked entry: a-swellan
un-treówlíce
With bad faith ⬩ perfidiously
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With bad faith, perfidiously Agothocles gedyde untreówlíce wið hiene, ðæt hé hiene on his wárum beswác and ofslóg per Agathoclem insidiis circumventus, occisus est, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 170, 9. Ðá bæd hé ðæt mon dyde beforan him ðone triumphan.
Beorg-ford
BURFORD in Oxfordshire
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Beorhforda], wið Æðelbald, Myrcena cing, and hine geflýmde here, in 752 Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons, fought in the twenty-second year of his reign, at Burford, with Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, and conquered him Chr. 752; Erl. 49, 13
lissan
to soften ⬩ weaken ⬩ tame ⬩ subdue
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... the wild bird she devours ... the wolf she conquers, Salm.
Berhte
Bertha ⬩ Bercta
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He received his wife from her parents on condition, that she should have his leave that she might hold the manner of the Christian belief, and of her religion, unspotted, with the bishop, whose name was Liudhard, whom they gave her for the help of that
Linked entry: Berþa
a-scádan
to separate
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Wih. 3; Th. i. 36, 19
clénsian
clear oneself
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Win. 22; Th. i. 42, 4
togung
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Spasm Wið sina togunge, Lchdm. i. 136, 9, 19
ác-melu
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Wið tóðwyrmum, genim ácmela, Lch. ii. 50, 16. Add
be-sceredness
Deprivation ⬩ abdication
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Deprivation, abdication Bescyrednesse abdicatione, Wit. Voc. ii. 7, 57
Linked entry: be-scyrednes
mete-cweorra
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Wið metecweorran, Lch. iii. 60, 4
Linked entries: -cweorra á-cweorran
ofer-hát
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Excessively hot Wið ómum oferhátum, Lch. ii. 10, 6
stunian
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Add Stunað heó wið attre, Lch. iii. 36, 7
wund-spring
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An ulcerous wound Wið wundspringum, Lch. i. 356, 20
-wintre
-metod
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Micel mildheortnys þæs metodan Dryhtnes, Hml. Th. ii. 316, 21. Menigfealde beóð þæs metodan Drihtnes egsan and swingla ofer scyldigum mannum, 328, 32 (both passages are alliterative).] Add: :-- Se metod eallra gesceafta (cf. se milda metod. Met. 29, 68
on-flyge
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Infectious disease, disease which, as it were, flies at people Ðú miht wið áttre and wið onflyge, Lchdm. iii. 32, 2, 16, 30. v. preceding word and ongeflogen; and cf. Icel. á-flog, flying at a person, fighting
mundbyrdness
protection ⬩ A protector ⬩ patron ⬩ advocate ⬩ a protection of rights granted by charter
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Frag. 106, 24. in a personal sense (v. mund, III. b), A protector, patron, advocate Ic ðé mé tó mundbyrdnysse geceóse wið ðín ágen bearn I choose thee for my advocate with thy own child, 106, 19.