Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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norþan-weard

(adj.)
Grammar
norþan-weard, adj.

Northward

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Ða Pyhtas geférdon ðis land norþanweard the Picts occupied the north of this land, Chr. Erl. 3, 13

Linked entry: súþan-weard

æscian

(v.)

to ask ⬩ interrogare

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Land

a-léd

(v.; part.)
Grammar
a-léd, pp. of a-lecgan.

put ⬩ laid

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put, laid,Lk. Bos. 2, 16;

dages

daily ⬩ die

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Lamb. 1, 2

dyncge

(n.)

ploughed land

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ploughed land, Mone B. 1434: 2326

Linked entry: dyng

eówede

(n.)

a flock

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Lamb. 77, 70

fænn

(n.)

a fen

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Lamb. 17, 43

forþ-brohte

(v.; part.)
Grammar
forþ-brohte, p. of forþ-brengan.

brought forth

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Lamb. 77, 16;

húðe

(n.)
Grammar
húðe, tó

in portum

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Lamb. 106, 30

ge-bysmerian

(v.)

to deride

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Lamb. 58, 9

ge-meare

(n.)

an end,

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Lamb. 58, 14

þurh-scínendlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
þurh-scínendlíc, adj.

Splendid ⬩ praeclarus

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Lamb. 15, 6

Linked entry: scínendlíc

bryðen

Entry preview:

Dele last reference, and see byrþen

gyrretynde

(n.; adj.; part.)

roaring ⬩ rugiens

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Lamb. 21, 11

on-ásendedness

(n.)

glosses immisio

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Lamb. 77, 49

Linked entry: á-sendedness

on-leóhtness

(n.)
Grammar
on-leóhtness, e; f.

Illumination ⬩ illuminatio

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Lamb. 138, 11

Linked entries: -leóhtness on-líhtness

hlenor-teár

(n.)
Grammar
hlenor-teár, es; m.

Hyssop

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Lamb. 508

á-slacian

(v.)

to slacken ⬩ become slack ⬩ to make slack

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Ðý lǽs se anwald áslacige (-slacie, v. l.) ðæs recendómes ne solvantur jura regiminis. Past. 118, 4. Ðý lǽs hira lufu áslacige ne eorum dilectio torpeat, 143, 9. Þæt hí ðurh orsorhnesse ne ásleacion. Hml. Th. i. 610, 16.

Linked entry: á-slæcian

manigfealdlíce

(adv.)
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Scæl ic monigfealdlecor sprecan wiþ þá I must speak more at large against them, Ors. 2, 1; S. 62, 9

gár-secg

ocean, sea ⬩ a particular part of the general body of water, an ocean

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Swá swá lyft and lagu land ymbclyppað, gársecg embegyrt gumena ríce, Met. 9, 41. Gársecg fandað hwæðer ác hæbbe æðele treówe, Rún. 25. Þú gársecges grundas geworhtes, Hy. 10, 7. Gár-secges gæst (the whale), Wal. 29. On gársecge oceano Wrt.

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