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mand

(n.)
Grammar
mand, mond, e; f.

A basketmandmaund

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Twælf monde fulle duodecim cophinos plenos, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 14, 20: 16, 9. Hú monig monda quot sportas, Lind. 16, 10. Mondo, Mk. Skt. Lind. 8, 8. Huu monig mondo (monde, Rush.) quot cophinos, 19

brid

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Fugla briddas, gif hié ǽr wilniað tó fleóganne ǽr hira feðra fulweaxene sín, Past. 383, 29. Sellan wel meltende mettas, culfrena briddas, hænne flǽsc, Lch. ii. 196, 22. Swá earn his briddas (pullos) spænð tó flihte, Deut. 32, II: Ps.

cwéne

Grammar
cwéne, l. cwene, for last reference substitute Wlfst. 161, 20,
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Unrihthǽmeras, þá fúlan þe forlǽtað heora cwenan and nimað óðre, and þá þe habbað má þonne heora rihtæðelcwéne, 298, 17

ge-hǽt

(v.)
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Wear fulne gehǽttes wínes, ii. 214, 12. On gehǽttum wíne, i. 368, 3. Háte stánas wel gehǽtte, ii. 68, 5. of passion, emotion, &c. Gehǽt wæs heorte mín concaluit cor meum, Ps. L. 38, 4

burh-waru

(n.)
Grammar
burh-waru, burg-waru; gen. dat. e; acc. e, u; f.
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The inhabitants of a city considered as a community, the whole body of citizens; civitas, civitatis populus Ǽlc burhwaru wæs búgende to him non fuit civitas quœ se traderet illis, Jos. 11. 19.

lencten-ádl

(n.)
Grammar
lencten-ádl, e; f.

A fever

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Án lytel cniht franc lengtenádle wæs gelácnod ... sum cniht on langre lengtenádle wæs hefiglíce geswenced puerulus e febre curatus sit ... puerulus quidam longo febrium incommodo graviter vexatus fuit, Bd. 3, 12; S. 537, 2-5.

wyrpel

(n.)
Grammar
wyrpel, es; m.
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Thorpe in his note on the following passage quotes from Roquefort the explanation of the French vervelle: Large anneau qu'on passoit au pied d'un faucon pour le retenir Sum sceal wildne fugel átemian, heafoc on honda ... déþl hé wyrplas on, fédeþ swá

fágettan

to quibble

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Voc. ii. 130, 35. v. fág) Se fulla móna fágettað, þonne hé ðæs sunlican leóhtes bedǽled bið þurh ðǽre eorðan sceadwunge, Hml. Th. i. 608, 33. to quibble, use with double meaning Cwæð Ualerianus tó ðám cýðere : "Ágif ðá mádmas."

glædene

(n.)
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Hand fulle secges and glædenan, ii. 356, 1. Wyl secg and glædenan neoðewearde, iii. 20, 4

greátnes

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</b> great bulk, swollen form :-- Swilce man siwige áne bytte and bláwe hí fulle windes, and wyrce siððan án þyrl, þonne heó tóþunden bið, on hire greátnysse, Hml. S. 34, 319

rúmedlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
rúmedlíce, adv.

liberallyat large, fully

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MS.) selþ, 44; Swt. 326, 20. at large, fully Ðis ðæt wé nú feám wordum árímdon wé willaþ hwéne rúmedlícor ( paulo latius ) áreccean, 12; Swt. 75, 17. Rúmerlícor [rúmed ?] latius, multiplicius, Hpt. Gl. 420,30.

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wédenheortness

(n.)
Grammar
wédenheortness, e ; f.

Madness, frenzy, fury

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Madness, frenzy, fury He gelómlíce mid wédenheortnesse módes wæs crebra mentis vesania premebatur, Bd. 2, 5; S. 507, 3. Wiþ wédenheortnesse Macedlones contra vesaniam Macedonii, 4, 17; S. 585, 45.

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tó-hreósan

(v.)
Grammar
tó-hreósan, p. -hreás; pl. -hruron ; pp. -hroren

To fall to piecesto go to ruinto decay,rot away

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.), mid fure and mid fehte foruaren. Laym. 9245. Þus Portchestre toræs (toreos, 2nd MS.), & nauere seodden heo ne aras, 9426

un-willa

(n.)
Grammar
un-willa, an; m.

What displeasesdispleasurewhat is not desiredagainst one's willunwillinglynot voluntarilywithout one's consentin despite of one

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Godes anweald nǽre full eádiglíc, gif ða gesceafta hiora unwillum him hérden, 35, 4; Fox 160, 19: Ps. Th. 44, 16: Ors. 6, 13 tit.; Swt. 6, 3. Heora bégra unwyllum, Shrn, 204, 6

hege

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Gewunode án þeóf ꝥ hé stáh ofer þone hege fur consueverat fer sepem ascendere, Gr. D. 23, 24. Hé stáh upp on þone hege ascendit sepem, 24, 21. Hyrdel, hege cratem, i. flecta, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 51. Hegas crates, 105, 49: 15, 47.

rúme

(adv.)
Grammar
rúme, adv.

widely, far and wide,liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degreeplainly, clearlywithout contraction, in full

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Th. 9, 13; Cri. 134. without contraction, in full Ðé ic ásecgan ne mæg rúme áreccan (relate at length ), ne gerím witan heardra heteþonca, 261, 12; Jul. 314

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ǽfre

eversemper,at all times, on every occasion ever, at any time, in any caseunquamwhatever, (as) ever, &c.

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Full neáh ǽfre þe óðer man very nearly every other man, 1086; P. 217, 29. Gif wé ǽfre wiðsacað deófle, Hml. Th. i. 170, 16. Ǽfre swá hí neár and neár eódon, Hml.

ealdor

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Th. i. 76, 4. of things, the chief, principal of its kind, head Seó Níl is ealdor fallicra (ful- ?) eá Nilus est capud fluuiorum. Nar. 35, 19. a parent, v. ealdor-leás orphan Cóm ǽrest Cam in síðian, eafora Nóes, þǽr his aldor læg, Gen. 1578.

sceaþa

(n.)
Grammar
sceaþa, an; m.

a criminal, wretch, miscreant, an enemyfiend, devila spoiler, robbera warrior

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Skt. 10, 30. with a favourable meaning,a warrior Scaþan onetton, wǽron æþelingas eft tó leódum fúse tó farenne, Beo. Th. 3610 ; B. 1803 . Scaþan scírhame tó scipe fóron, 3794 ; B. 1895

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sócn

(n.)
Grammar
sócn, e; f.

a seeking, search, exploringa seeking, desiring, trying to geta seeking to obtain an enda seeking for information, question, inquirya seeking, visiting of a place, attendance at a place, resorta seeking for protection ora place so sought, refuge, sanctuary, asyluma seeking with hostile intent, an attack inquisitio the right of investigating, necessary to and a part of power of holding plea seekinglevying fines socasoca quaestio inquisitio an attack an action, prosecution an assemblage a parish

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Si fur qui furatus est postquam concilium fuit apud Ðunresfeld, vel furetur, nullo modo vita dignus habeatur, non per socnam, non per pecuniam, si per verum reveletur in eo L.

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