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for-ealdian

(v.)

to run outexpire

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Th. 31, 3. of a period of time, to run out, expire Seó syxte yld þe nú ys hyre geendung ys swýðe ungewis, ac hyre yld sceal forealdian and mid worulde ende beón geendod, Angl. viii. 336, 13

glædnes

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And bið gefeá ðé and glædnise ( gaudium tibi et exultatio ), Lk. R. L. 1, 14. Ðis for ðon glædnise mín gefylled is hoc ergo gaudium meum impletum est, Jn. L. 3, 29. a pleasurable condition, state of happiness Glædnys ludus, Germ. 398, 64.

hríðer

(n.)
Grammar
hríðer, hrýðer, es; n.

oxcowheifer

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Bige mid ðam ylcan feó swá hwæt swá ðé lícige hrýðera and sceáp emes ex eadem pecunia quidquid tibi placuerit sive ex armentis sive ex ovibus Deut. 14, 26. Hrýðera and scép, Jos. 6, 21.

Linked entries: hruðer hrýðer

hwæðer

(con.)
Grammar
hwæðer, hweðer; conj.

Whether

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Whether, in direct questions Hwæðer ic móte lybban óþ ðæt ic hine geseó may I live till I see him? Homl. Th. i. 136, 30. Hwæðer gé willen on wuda sécan gold ðæt reáde? Bt. Met. Fox 19, 9, 29; Met. 19, 5, 15.

ládung

(n.)
Grammar
ládung, e; f.

An excusing an apologyexcusea defenceexculpationpurgation

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God lǽt him fyrst ðæt hé his mándǽda geswíce gif hé wile: gif hé nele ðæt hé beó bútan ǽlcere ládunge swíðe rihtlíce tó deófles handa ásceofen God allows the wicked man time, that he may, if he will, cease from his wicked deeds: that, if he will not,

Linked entry: be-ládung

lúcan

(v.)
Grammar
lúcan, p. leác, pl. lucon; pp. locen

To closeconcludefastenlock

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Ðǽr com flówende flód æfter ebban lucon lagustreámas there came flowing flood after ebb, the streams intertwined or closed up [the surface of the water shewing a network of lines from the varying currents, as the tide flowed up the river], Byrht.

Linked entry: lýcþ

þorp

(n.)
Grammar
þorp, þrop, es; m. Perhaps the idea at first connected with the words is that of an assemblage, cf. the use in Icelandic: Maðr heitir einnhverr ... þorp ef þrír ero, Skáldskaparmál; þyrpast to crowd, throng: þyrping
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In the end the meaning came to be hamlet, village, in which sense it remained for some time in English, e.g.: Ic Ædgar gife freodom Sce Petres mynstre Medeshamstede of kyng and of biscop, and ealle þa þorpes þe ðærto lin: ðæt is, Æstfeld and Dodesthorp

Linked entry: þrop

á-breóþan

(v.)
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Sume menn . . . ðonne seó hǽte cymð, ðæt is seó costung, ðonne ábreóðað hí ( these in time of temptation fall away, Lk. 8, 13), ii. 90, 34. Ðæt teóðe werod ábreáð and áwende on yfel, i. 10, 18.

Linked entries: a-broten á-broþenness

deófol-lic

(adj.)
Grammar
deófol-lic, (deóf-); adj.
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On þám deófollican (deóflican, v. l.) tíman in Antechrist's time, Wlfst. 86, 4. Tó deófollicum hǽðenscype to the worship of the devil, Hml. S. 17, 48. Deóflicere æfgælþe fanatica superstitione, An. Ox. 3232. Deófelicum (deóff-, Wrt.

Linked entry: deófel-lic

ge-fyrn

Grammar
ge-fyrn, long ago.
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S. 30, 322. in respect to all past time Gefyrn antiquitus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 18. Ephese hátte þeós burh, and heó wel gefyrn swá geháten wæs, Hml. S. 23, 550. Ús þe gefyrn on deáþes dymnysse sǽton, Nic. 12, 36: Crl. 63.

æfterra

(num.; adj.)
Grammar
æfterra, æft(e)ra; cpve.: æft(e)resta; spve.

latter hinder, lower latterlastnext, following second

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where relation of two objects is marked, in time, latter Se æfterra anweald—se ǽrra, Bt. 16, 1; F. 50, 12.

hearpe

(n.)
Grammar
hearpe, hærpe, an; f.

A harpplectrum, chelys, psalterium, cythara

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Ic ðé on sealmfatum singe he hearpan psallam tibi in cithara, Ps. Th. 70, 20: Exon. 86 b; Th. 325, 1; Víd. 105.

wíf

(n.)
Grammar
wíf, es; n.

a womana female persona being in the form of a womana married womana wife

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C. 18, tit.; Th. ii. 128, 31. Gif ceorl búton wífes wísdóm deóflum gelde . . . Gif bútwú deóflum geldaþ, sión hió healsfange scyldigo, L. Win. 12 ; Th. i. 40, 4. Gif hwá stalie swá his wíf nyte and his bearn, geselle . lx. Sciłł. tó wíte.

Linked entry: BRÝD

ge-tæl

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Nǽron náne tída on þám geárlican getæle ǽr ðám God gesceóp ðá tunglan tó geárlicum tídum, Hex. 12, 21.

ge-trymman

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Hé hét þæt hí áne tíd ofer undern hí getrymedon ongeán heora fýnd, Hml. Th. i. 504, 24. Getrymed féða cuneus, Wülck. Gl. 216, 12. Getrimmed, Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 31.

gang

going, walking, moving on foot, step.the sole of the foot (?)the being habitually in a specified conditionpower of walkingof moving aboutmode of walking, walk, gait a walk, journeygo, time, occasion of goinga way, road, path, passage a trackcourse a streama narrative space traversedexpanse coveredan ox-gang, a bovale, the eighth part of the carucate.legal processlegal procedure, processa company of people (?), a gang.a step, staira privy

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Forhabban hine wyð micele gangas, Lch. iii. 134, 19. like colloquial go, time, occasion of going Gehwæþerne gang swígende either time (going and returning) in silence Lch. ii. 76, 17. a way, road, path, passage Þá ongunnon hí búton ǽlcere lættinge in

þrowian

(v.)
Grammar
þrowian, (þrówian?), þreowian (þreówian?); p. ode

To sufferto suffer as opposed to to actto suffer what is painfulto suffer martyrdomto make to sufferto crucifyto suffer for somethingpay foratone for

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Mín Drihten, áne tíd on róde ðú þrowodest, Blickl. Homl. 243, 28. Godes sunu on róde galgan þrowode, 27, 28: Elen. Kmbl. 841; E1. 421: Rood Kmbl. 165; Kr. 84. Ðrowode, Menol. Fox 167; Men. 85. Þrowode martyrizavit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 14.

Linked entry: a-þrówian

dǽlan

(v.)
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Sió wyrd dǽlþ eallum gesceaftum andwlitan and stówa and tída and gemetgunga, 39, 5; F. 218, 19-33. Dǽleð, Vy. 65. Meotud monnum dǽleð, syleð sundorgiefe, Crä. 4. Regnþeófas dǽlað yldo oððe ǽrdeáð, Exod. 538.

BE

(prep.)
Grammar
BE, [abbreviated from big = bí, q. v.]; prep. dat. and instr.

BYnear totoatinonuponaboutwithjuxtapropeadsecusincumoffromabouttouchingconcerningdequoadforbecause ofafterbythroughaccording topropropterersecundumbesideout ofeex

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Be hlísan of or about fame, Bt. titl. xviii. xix; Fox xiv. 1. Gramlíce be Gode sprǽcan male locuti sunt de Deo, Ps. Th. 77, 20. Be his horse Bucefal about his horse Bucephal, Ors. 3, 9; Bos. 67, 39.

wang

(n.)
Grammar
wang, es; m. . I. the word, which is almost confined to poetry, may be rendered by words denoting the surface of the ground taken in their most general sense,
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On sumeres tíd stincaþ on stówum, wynnum æfter wongum wyrta geblówene, Exon. Th. 178, 24; Gú. 1249. Cumaþ wæstm on wangas weorðlíc on hwǽtum convalles abundabunt frumento, Ps. Th. 64, 14. Ic foldan slíte, gréne wongas, Exon. Th. 393, 18; Rä. 13, 2.

Linked entries: ge-wenge wencge wenge