grípan
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To GRIPE, grasp, seize, lay hold of, apprehend; capĕre, rapĕre, prehendĕre, apprehendere Ic on Lothe gefrægn hǽþne heremæcgas handum grípan I heard that the heathen leaders seized on Lot with their hands, Cd. 114; Th. 149, 32; Gen. 2483: 219; Th. 281
Linked entry: ge-grípan
GRINDAN
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To GRIND, grind together, rub, rub together; molere, commolere, terere, frendere, allidi, collidi Ic seah searo grindan wið greóte I saw a machine grind against the dust, Exon. 108 b; Th. 414, 30; Rä. 33, 4. Ic grynde molo, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 3; Som. 31,
ísern-óre
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Cf. ísen-græf
ge-drítan
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To drop excrement Nim þæt græs þǽr hund gedríteþ, Lch. i. 364, 9
Linked entry: dríting
grísan
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To shudder, to be frightened; horrere
Linked entry: grislíc
rípian
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Æpla, græs, and wyrtan, and treówen foraldiað and forsériað and cumað oððer, grénu wexað, and gearwað and rípað (-iað?), Solil. H. 10, 5. Add
hǽwe
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Grǽg, hǽwe ferrugine (cf. ísengrǽg ferrugine, i. ferreo colore, 31: ferrugo vel ferrugineus, i. color purpurae subnigrae, Wülck. Gl. 236, 32), Wrt. Voc. ii. 35, 34. v. wann-hǽwe, and next word
weax-bred
a table, tablet for writing on ⬩ a table, list
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Ne bóc, ne weaxbreda, ne græf, R. Ben. 56, 20. Ðonne ðú græf habban wille, ðonne sete ðú ðíne þrí fingras tósomne, swilce ðú græf hæbbe, and styra ðíne fingras swilce ðú wríte.
han-créd
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Cf. han-grǽd
twín-wyrm
coc
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Ðorme grǽt se láreów swá swá kok on niht . . . Ðæs cocces ðeáw is . . . Past. 459, 29-461, 2. Se kok ðe wé ymb sprǽcon, 12. Coca pullorum, An. Ox. 4891. Cocca, 2, 398. Add
reóc
Fierce, savage
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Fierce, savage [Grendel] grim and grǽdig, reóc and réðe, Beo. Th. 244;B. 122
mǽl-mete
Food to eat
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Food to eat Ne biþ ðec mǽlmete nymþe mores græs no food shall there be for thee but the grass of the moor. Cd. 203; Th. 252, 7; Dan. 575. [Grein, quoting Dietrich, would read mǽl méte ( = obvius), v. Hpt. Zeitsch. x. 358.]
Lǽden-stæf
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A Latin letter Hit wæs áwriten grécisceon and lédenstafon erat scribtum græce et latine, Jn. Skt. 19, 20
geoguþ-myru
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Ic þá wihte (a young bull) geseah wǽpnedcynnes geoguðmyrwe grǽdig (hungry with the hunger of a young creature. Cf. grǽdig applied to the hungry young of animals in Ps. Th. 103, 21 León hwelpas sécað þæt him grǽdigum ǽt God gedéme) Rä. 39, 2
HWǼTE
WHEAT
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Grǽg hwǽte far, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 17; Som. 9, 52. Þurh ða gemetgunge hwǽtes per mensuram tritici, Past. 63; Swt. 459, 13. Fyrsas ða ðe willaþ derian clǽnum hwǽte, Bt. Met. Fox 12, 9; Met. 12, 5. Hé hí fédde mid hwǽte, Ps. 80, 15.
Creácas
The Greek ⬩ Græci
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The Greek; Græci Mid eallan Creáca cræftum with all the arts of the Greeks Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 33, 29, 31; Bos. 34, 6
wull-tewestre
A female wool-carder
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Mǽden grǽdig, wulltewestre, 196, 2
Linked entry: tewestre
Crécas
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Crécas Graeci, Rtl. 194, 17. Criécna Graecorum, Mt. p. 2, 15. Mid Crécum apud Grecos, 11. Add
hǽwen
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Add: green Hǽwen oððe grǽg gla[u]cum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 72. Basu, hǽwen indicum, 49, 55. Gréne, hǽwen, fáh, deorc ceruleus, i. glaucus. Color est inter album et nigrum, subniger, 130, 34. Hǽwen stán cyanea lapis, 137, 74.