on-hagian
To be within a person's power or means, to be in accordance with a person's will or convenience
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S. 74; Th. i. 416, 17. Gif hine tó swá mycelum ne onhagige si tantum facultatis ei non suppetat, L. Ecg. P. iv. 60; Th. ii. 222, 3. Gif hine onhagige (si facultatem habeat), gefreóge ǽnne man, ii. 24; Th. ii. 192, 12; L.
gagátes
The agate or jet ⬩ a precious stone ⬩ găgātes ⬩ γăγάτηs
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M. 2, 65; Lchdm. ii. 296, 11. Be ðam stáne ðe gagátes hátte, is sǽd ðæt he viii mægen hæbbe of the stone which is called agate, it is said that it hath eight virtues, 2, 66; Lchdm. iii. 296, 29
ceáp-man
CHAPMAN, merchant, market-man ⬩ mercator, negotiator, nundinator
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CHAPMAN, merchant, market-man; mercator, negotiator, nundinator Gif ceápman uppe on folce ceápie, dó ðæt befóran gewitnessum if a chapman traffic up among the people, let him do it before witnesses, L. In. 25; Th. i. 118, 12, note 32: Obs.
leóþ-cræft
poetry ⬩ verse ⬩ a poem
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Hé biþ swá ðeáh on leópcræfte ǽgðer ge lang ge sceort it [i of the genitive in certain words] is however in poetry both long and short, 18; Som. 21, 51. Ða gemetu gebyriaþ tó lédenum leóþcræfte metres pertain to Latin poetry, 50; Som. 51, 66.
sceacan
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Voc. ii. 66, 80 is: Coronam inextricabili plectra plumemus, Ald. 54, 7
læc
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The word, if this be the true form of it, occurs only once, in the following passage Gárulf gecrang ealra ǽrest ... ymb hyne gódra fela hwearf lacra hrǽr hræfn wandrode sweart and sealobrún, Fins. Th. 64-70; Fin. 33-5.
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haga
A place fenced in, an enclosure, a haw, a dwelling in a town ⬩ yard ⬩ a yard, or enclosure ⬩ a hedged field, a pasture
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Dipl. ii. 150, 5, 11. Ðis syndon ðæs hagan gemǽru those are the boundaries of the messuage [in the previous part of the charter the gift is spoken of as unam curtem ], iii. 240, 18.
hwíte
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Whitely, with white colour ꝥ ðridde cyn mintan ꝥ blóweð hwíte, Lch. iii. 16, II. Hwíte (or adj. ? v. hwít; <b>Ia.</b>) hine gescrýdan to dress in white 198, 26
helan
to conceal from
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Strengre is ꝥ ic morðor hele, scyle mánswara lifian, Cri 193, with dat. of person to whom something is not made known: Míne scylde ic dyde þé cúðe, and míne unrihtwísnysse ic þé ne hæl, Ll. Th. ii. 426, 21.
læfer
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In Hml. Th. ii. 498, 3 læfrum translates laminis. v. reád-læfer, gold-læfer
fant-fæt
A font vessel, the font for baptism ⬩ baptistērii vas
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font-vessel, sinful through Adam's transgression, but it is washed from all sins within, though without it change not its appearance, Homl.
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ge-logian
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Binnan him (the firmament) is gelógod eall ðes middaneard, 8, 28. in the position or condition in which it is to where the object is personal Hé mínne fæder gelógode on þǽm heáhfædera getele, Hml. S. 2, 421.
neód-líce
Diligently ⬩ sedulously ⬩ zealously ⬩ eagerly ⬩ earnestly
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Th. i. 336, 22 : ii. 26, 5.
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ge-teld
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D. iii. 352, 14. Hió becwið Ælfwolde hyre reáde geteld, vi. 132, 12. Cf. Ælfríc biscop I biqueðe míne teld and mín bedreáf ðat ic best hauede út on mi fare mid mé, iv. 302, 27. Add
wígbed-bót
A fine paid to the bishop for the injury done to the church by doing wrong to one in holy orders
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S. 42; Th. i. 400, 23. In the laws of Henry I it is called emendacio altaris, II, 8; Th. i. 521, 7: 66, 3; Th. i. 569, 13
wæter-berere
A water-bearer
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A water-bearer Mid wæterbererum cum lixarum (coetibus,Ald. 13; the passage is the same as that glossed in the preceding word), Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 74 : 18, 2. Wæterberere (-a ?) lixarum, 52, 73
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IFIG
Ivy
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M. 3, 30; Lchdm. ii. 326, 3. Ifies seáw juice of ivy, 1, 3 ; Lchdm. ii. 40, 26. Weal se is mid ifige bewrigen a wall that is covered with ivy, Shrn. 139, 27
bíte
a bite ⬩ the bite
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Ðǽr is benda bite and dynta dyne, Wlfst. 114, 23: 209, 17. Gif bánes bite weorð if the bone be cut, Ll. Th. i. 12, 5. (Cf. O. Frs. bénes biti.)
sprecan
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D. ii. 133, 16
Brunan burh
Brunanburh, about five miles south-west of Durham, or on the plain between the river Tyne and the Browney,
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For the reasons I have stated, I believe it was to the south-west of Lurham. — Dr.