feltún-grép
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The drain of a privy Wyrse is þæt mon ðæs ofer riht brúce þonne hine mon on feltúngrépe wiorpe; on þǽre grépe hé wiorðeð tó meoxe, Nap. 21
hand-griþ
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Add: security granted by a person in authority, cf. hand; 2 Cyricgrið binnan wágum and cyninges handgrið, Ll. Th. i. 166, 21. Godes cyricgrið and crístenes cynincges handgrið, 358, 261. Gehálgodes cyninges handgrið, Wlfst. 266, 11
grund-leás
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Add: of an earthly pit, gulf, &c. lit. bottomless, whose bottom has not been reached Andlang hagan tó ðám grundeliésan pytte, C. D. v. 148, 10. On ðone grundlǽsan pyt, vi. 41, 23. fig. Ne biþ se ðurst gefylled heora gítsunga, ac seó grundleáse
grund-stán
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Add: A ground-stone (v. N. E. D.) Grundstánas cementa, i. petre, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 64
grund-staþelian
grist-bite
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Gnashing of teeth In tóða gristbitum, Wlfst. 188, 5
gor-gráf
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a muddy copse (?) Æt gorgráfes slædę ... eft in on gorgráfes slæd, C. D. vi. 120, 8-26. Of gorgrǽfan, v. 579, 18. On gorgráues, 380, 4
Linked entry: gráf
gram-bǽre
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Ðá monðwǽran ... ðá grambǽran mansueti ... iracundi, 289, 5. Add
gran-wisc
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Gronuisc acus (cf. acus sifeþa, i. 83, 19) Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 16. Gronwisc, 4, 37. ?)
helle-grund
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helle-grut
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The abyss of hell Hellegrut baratrum, i. infernum. An. Ox. 689. Substitute:
hell-grund
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the depth of hell Þú in hellgrundes (helle-, v.l.) ástige, Angl. xii. 507, 8
Linked entry: helle-grund
mere-grot
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Add: material Heó hafað stánas hwíte and sinewealte swylce meregrotu (-grotan, v. l. ), Lch. i. 314, 21. Þá betstan meregrotu, Bd. 1, 1; Sch. 8, 18. figurative Þás mere*-*grota þám beforan lecgan þe þisra þinga gýman wyllað, Angl. viii. 308, 43
sǽ-grund
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Add: the deep Se apostol Paulus sǽde ꝥ hé sylf wunode on sǽgrunde middan ofer dæg and ofer niht ( nocte et die in profundo mares fui; a night and a day I have been in the deep, 2 Cor. 11, 25), Hml. S. 31, 899
wíþig-gráf
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On wíðiggráfe, C. D. v. 147, 32. Add
sand-grot
a grain of sand
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a grain of sand Geríman sǽs sondgrotu, Exon. Th. 466, 6; Hö. 117
grund-weall
A foundation
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A foundation Ðes grundweall hoc fundamentum, Ælfc. Gr. 8;Som. 7, 60. Ic lecge grundweall fundo, 37;Som. 39, 20. Se cræft is eallra bóclícra cræfta ordfruma and grundweall that art is the beginning and foundation of all literary arts, 50;Som. 51, 2;Wrt