-a
A person ⬩ an agent ⬩ actor
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Some abstract nouns, and words denoting inanimate things, end in -a; and these words, having the same declension as those which signify Persons or actors, are masculine; as Hlísa, an; m. fame: Tíma, an; m. fame: Líchama, an; m. a body: Steorra, an; m.
ídel
Idleness ⬩ vanity ⬩ futility ⬩ frivolity
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Nys eác mid ídele tó forlǽtenne ðæt wundor ðæt þurh wítedómes cræft hé wiste nor is the miracle, that he knew things by prophetic power, to be lightly dismissed, Guthl. 17; Gdwin. 70, 2 [cf. 76, 10]. Ða ídlo vanitates, Rtl. 162. 32
fæder-lic
ancestral ⬩ lineal
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Similar entries v. fæder, I 2, 2 a Þíne suna gesittað ꝥ cynesetl oð ðá feórðe mǽgðe mid fæderlicre æftergengnysse (son shall succeed father for four generations), Hml.
fremfull
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Hí syndon fremfulle ( benigni ) menn, Nar. 38, 22. of things, useful, beneficial, advantageous Ðysse wyrte wós ys swýðe fremful, Lch. i. 152, 15. Se drænc is frymful tó begánne, iii. 60, 2.
hnappian
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Zosimus nǽnige þinga hnappode and geornlíce ꝥ wésten beheóld Zosimus did not close an eye, and gazed earnestly on the desert Hml. S. 23 b, 666. Hí heom betweónan án and án hnappodon one after another they got drowsy 23, 247.
wífung
taking a wife ⬩ marriage ⬩ wives ⬩ matrimonia
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P. 30; Th. ii. 374, 35. in plural, wives; matrimonia Eów preóstum þingð, ðæt eów nán sin ne sý ðæt gé mid wífungum swá libban swá lǽwede men, L. Ælfc. P. 32; Th. ii. 376, 28. v. frum-, unriht-wífung
ge-wyrht
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Deág þín gewyrhtu ; God þé bið symle góda gehwylces freá and fultum feónd þám óðrum wyrsan gewyrhta do ever what may profit.
ge-dréfan
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Ðás þing geseónde hé wearð gedréfed, Chr. 1087 ; P. 223, 16. Ðá hí gesáwon þæt hí wurdon þá gedréfede (-droefed, L., -drýfed, R.), Mt. 14, 26: Bl. H. 17, 2. fear, anxiety, sorrow, &c. Mé bróga þín gedréfde, Ps. Th. 87, 16.
HÚSEL
The HOUSEL ⬩ the Eucharist
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Sóþlíce se hláf and ðæt wín ðe beóþ þurh sacerda mæssan gehálgode óðer þing hí æteówiaþ menniscum andgitum wiðútan and óðer þing hí clypiaþ wiðinnan geleáffullum módum.
Linked entry: húsl
faran
to travel ⬩ journey ⬩ to march ⬩ to go ⬩ to go ⬩ depart ⬩ to go ⬩ move ⬩ to go ⬩ fly ⬩ to come ⬩ to pass away ⬩ depart ⬩ to go on ⬩ practise ⬩ happen ⬩ turn out
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Ðeáh ús þince ꝥ hit on wóh fare, Bt. 39, 8; F. 224, 21. Þú segst ꝥ hit scyle eall faran swá hé getiohhod habbe, 41, 2; F. 244, 19.
Linked entry: farnian
car-ful
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Th. i. 236, 4: ii. 284, 25. of things, fraught or attended with anxiety, troublesome Carfull (heti) bíhýdinys scrupulosa (dubitata) sollicitudo, An.
swice
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</b> outcome, event, issue :-- Hé þenceþ ðæt his wíse þince unforcúþ biþ ðæs óþer swice ðonne hé ðæs fácnes fintan sceáwaþ he thinks that his ways appear respectable; their event will be different when he observes the result of the fraud.
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á-rǽdan
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Ne cymst þú on þínne éþel for þon ðín éþel (? wyrd) hit swá be þínum heáfde and fóre hafað árǽded vivus in patriam non reverteres, quum fata ita de tuo capite statuerunt, Nar. 29, 14. to read a riddle Ic árǽdde Antiochus rǽdels, Ap.
gærsum
treasure ⬩ an article of value ⬩ treasures
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Hí bereafedan hí æt eallon þan gærsaman þe heó áhte, þá wǽron unátellendlice (nam of hire call ꝥ heó áhte on golde and on seolfre and on unásecgendlicum þingum, v. l.), 1043; P. 163, 35.
bóc-land
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. ¶ used figuratively: Gif þú (the wealthy man) wéne, þæt hit þín bóc-land (land exempt from the claims of charity) sý, þæt þu on eardast, and on ágene ǽht geseald, Wlfst. 260, 3. Add
ge-samnung
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Í. 236, 17. of things, material, a heap, mass Gesomnung congeries (gemmarum ], Wrt. Voc. ii. 78, 38.
burg-geat
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Th. i. 224, 7. þá heortan æt þínum burhgeatum behele, Lch. i. 328, 24. [He wende to þan burhȝate þer þe king on bure lai, Laym. 17670.] a town-gate (v. burg, II) Hé férde on ðá burg Ambinensus ... þá sæt þǽr sum þearfa æt ðǽm burggeate, Bl.
eaxel
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Grn. 9, 14.Þú mid þínre brádre hand þá nunnan ofer hire eaxle þaccodest, Gr. D. 190, 14. Hine þonne ofer eaxle besihð se déma tó þám forwyrhtum, Wlfst. 256, 8. Eaxla humeri, Wrt. Voc. i. 64, 67: 283, 5. Eahslum scapulis, Bl. Gl. Add
fúl
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Nyste ic on þám þingum þe þú ymbe speast fúl ne fácn, Ll. Th. i. 182, 1-3
middeweard
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On middeweardum þínes freólsas, 73, 4. Add