Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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ge-bécn-

(prefix)

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forþ-bǽro

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forþ-bǽro, forþ-bǽru.
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Substitute: Productivity, and add: cf. wæstmbǽru(-o)

heals-beág

a collar

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a collar Healsbeága mǽst . . . þone hring hæfde Higelác . . ., B. 1195. Add:

hrycg-bán

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Add: [v. N. E. D. ridge-bone.]

hweorf-bán

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Hwiorfbán poplites. Lch. i. lxxi, II. Add

laur-beám

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Laurbeámes lauri Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 12. Add

hype-bán

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Lendenu vel hypebán renes vel lumbi, hypebán catacrina Wrt. Voc. i. 44, 36, 37. Hypbán catacrinas, ii. 129, 39. Add:

níd-bád

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Add: figurative Hwæt, wé nú wǽron fægne þæt wé ne móston bedíglan on ússum scræfum, þæt hé ús ne swencte mid his mægnis nídbáðe, Mod. Philol. 1. 33

on-bæc

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Add: of motion. in retreat from a point reached Geong onbæcc ł mec behianda uade retro me, Mk. L. 8, 33. Eádun onbæcg abierunt retrorsum, Jn. L. 18, 6. in return to a point previously occupied Ne áwoendað onbæcc non redeant retro, Lk. L. 17, 31. Ne

pól-bǽr

(n.)
Grammar
pól-bǽr, e; f.
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Pasture-land by a pool On monnes pólbǽre, C. D. iii. 415, 5

sýl-beám

(n.)
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a tree that serves as a pillar (?) Tó sýlbeáme; of sýl-beáme, C. D. iii. 79, 36

web-beám

Grammar
web-beám, In 1. 3 for insubula 1.
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insubulae

wræt-baso

(adj.)
Grammar
wræt-baso, adj.
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Red Uueretbaso rubeum, Ld. Gl. H. 20, 19 (col. 2)

Linked entry: baso

wudu-bǽr

(n.)
Grammar
wudu-bǽr, e; f.
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A woodland pasture Ðis sind ðǽre wudubǽre landgemǽru æt Ðæclége, C. D. vi. 171, 4. Cf. weald-bǽre (l. -bǽr)

ác-bearo

(n.)
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an oak-grove On ácbeara, C. D. v. 232, 27

Linked entry: bearo

ban-weorc

(n.)
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action which causes death, manslaughter Seó unlagu ꝥ man móste banweorc on unsacne secgan, Ll. Lbmn. 244, 34. Cf. morþ-weorc

bealo-full

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coren-beág

(n.)
Grammar
coren-beág, Cf. coróna.

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scear-beám

(n.)
Grammar
scear-beám, es ; m.

The wood to which the ploughshare is fixed

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The wood to which the ploughshare is fixed (?) Scearbeám brigacus. Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 21

breóst-bán

(n.)
Grammar
breóst-bán, es; n. [breóst
the breast,
bán
a bone
]

the breast, ⬩ a bone ⬩ The BREAST-BONE; ⬩ pectoris os, pectusculum,

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The BREAST-BONE; pectoris os, pectusculum, Ælfc. Gl. 73; Som. 71, 25; Wrt. Voc. 44, 11

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