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be-rídan

(v.)
Grammar
be-rídan, he -rít; p. , -rád, pl. ; pp. -riden; v. a.

to ride round ⬩ to surround ⬩ besiege ⬩ perequitare ⬩ præcingere ⬩ to ride after ⬩ pursue ⬩ persequi

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Alf. pol. 42; Th. i. 90, 4. to ride after, pursue; persequi Ðá berád mon ðæt wíf then they pursued the wife, Chr. 901; Ing. 125, 14. He hine berád he rode after him, 755; Ing. 70, 1

fætnes

(n.)
Grammar
fætnes, -ness, -nyss, e; f. [fæt fat]

FATNESS ⬩ pinguēdo, adeps

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Moys. Isrl. Lamb. 192 a, 14

for-ðý

(con.)
Grammar
for-ðý, for-ðý-ðe, for-ðí, for-ðí-ðe, for-ðig; conj.

For that ⬩ for ⬩ because ⬩ therefore ⬩ nam ⬩ quia ⬩ ĭtăque

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Nán mon forðý ne rít ðe hine rídan lyste no man rides because he lists to ride, Bt. 34, 7; Fox 144, 6, 12

Linked entries: for-ðí for-ðí for-ðig for-ðig

in-gelǽdan

(v.)
Grammar
in-gelǽdan, p. de

To lead ⬩ bring in ⬩ introduce

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Moys. 23; Thw. notæ, p. 30. Óþ ðæt ic ðé ingelǽde on mínes Fæder hús until I bring thee into my father's house, Blickl. Homl. 191, 19. Ingelǽded introducta, Bd. 4, 9; S. 576, 37

mǽg-wine

(n.)
Grammar
mǽg-wine, es; m.

A kinsman and friend

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A kinsman and friend Mon mænig be his mǽgwine many a man standing by his kinsman (of the people at the tower of Babel), Cd. 80; Th. 100, 9; Gen. 1661. Mǽgwinas míne, Beo. Th. 4951; B. 2479. Mǽgwinum.

martyr-dóm

(n.)
Grammar
martyr-dóm, es; m.

Martyrdom

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Hé gearcodon heora mód tó ðam martyrdóme, Homl. Skt. 5, 150. Martyrdóm ( martirium ) þrowiende, Bd. 5, 10; S. 623, 36: Menol. Fox 249; Men. 126: 287; Men. 145

melc

(adj.)
Grammar
melc, meolc; adj.

Giving milk ⬩ milch

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Hé geseah wilde hinde melce and se geþyrsta mon meolcode ða hinde, Shrn. 130, 3. Wið tittia sár wífa ðe beóþ melce, Herb. 19, 4; Lchdm. i. 112, 26. Meolce breóst ubera, Wrt. Voc. i. 44, 14

níwness

(n.)
Grammar
níwness, e; f.

Newness ⬩ novelty

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Newness, novelty Ne sceal him mon ánne mete gebeódan, ac missenlíce, ðæt seó niównes ðara metta mǽge him góde beón, Lchdm. ii. 240, 15. Ðæs mónan níwnys, Anglia viii. 310, 38.

be-sorg

(adj.)
Grammar
be-sorg, -sorh

Anxious, careful, dear, beloved ⬩ sollicitus, carus

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Papinianus wæs ealra his deorlinga besorgost Papinianus was the most beloved of all his favourites Bt. 29, 2; Fox 104, 25. Besorh carus R. Ben. 72

Linked entries: un-besorh be-sorh

searu-þancol

(adj.)
Grammar
searu-þancol, adj.
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Mon ǽnig searoþoncelra, Judth. Thw. 26, 17; Jud. 331

stirne

(adj.)
Grammar
stirne, adj.
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[God] hæfde styrne mód, gegremed grymme, Cd. Th. 4, 28 ; Gen. 60

Linked entry: styrne

un-endebyrdlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-endebyrdlíce, adv.

In a disorderly manner ⬩ without order ⬩ irregularly

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Ðonne ðæt mód bið forlǽten and onstyred and tódǽled ungedafenlíce and unendebyrdlíce on unðeáwas si inordinatis dimissa motibus mens vitiis dissipatur, 43; Swt. 315, 7. Unendebyrdlíce inordinate, Scint. 101, 14: 191, 3

Linked entry: endebyrdlíce

weorf

(n.)
Grammar
weorf, es; n.
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Hors mon sceal gyldan mid .xxx. sciłł. . . . wilde weof mid . xii. Sciłł., oxan mid .xxx. p̃, L. O. D. 7; Th. i. 356, 4. Ungewylde weorf, nýten ł hors indomitos subjugales, Hpt. Gl. 458, 1. v. next word

dol

(n.)
Grammar
dol, es; n.
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Sé ðe eall his mód bið áflogen tó gæglbǽrnesse and tó dole qui totis cogitationibus ad lasciviam defluit, Past. 73, 12. Gif se gilda mid dysie and myd dole stleá, bere sylf ꝥ hé worhte, Cht. Th. 612, 2

ge-scínan

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L. 9, 29. to shine on Swá se fiicbeám ofersceadað ðæt lond ðæt hit under him ne mæg gegrówan, for ðǽm hit sió sunne ne mót gescínan, Past. 337, 12

ge-tawa

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tawa, pl. f.
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Ðis syndan þá getawa þe mon mæg heofona ríce mid begytan, Ll. Th. ii. 404, 3

góma

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Add: the palate In góman, þǽr mon þone smæc tódǽleþ in palato, Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 3. in pl. the jaws Góman fauces, Wrt. Voc. ii. 38, 52.

wǽr-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
wǽr-leás, adj.

Faithless, false

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Faithless, false Wǽrleás mon . . . and ungetreów, Exon. Th. 343, 24; Gn. Ex. 162. Se feónd, wræcca wǽrleás, 263, 17; Jul. 351: 267, 26; Jul. 421. Wǽrleás werod ( the fallen angels ), Cd. Th. 5, 5; Gen. 67.

æsc

ash-tree ⬩ a ship

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D. vi. 252-3 for the large number of place-names in which æsc occurs) Æsces sceal mǽst there must be most of ash, Lch. ii. 86, 8. a ship Aesc cercilus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 56. Æsc cercylus, 14, 16.

dulmúnus

(n.)
Grammar
dulmúnus, gen. pl. dulmúna; m. The war-ship of the Greeks, which king Alfred assures us would hold a thousand men; longa nāvis. These ships were the μακρὰ πλοῖα or νῆες μακραί, generally called in Greek ὁ δρόμων, ωνος, m. the light war-vessel of the Greeks. They were the longæ nāves the long war-ships of the Romans, which had often more than fifty rowers. The Romans called their vessel drŏmo, ōnis, defining it as a fast rowing vessel, evidently deriving their word from the Greek δρόμων, Cod. Just. 1, 27, 1, § 8; Cassiod. Var. 5, 17, init. where it is described as 'trĭrēme vehĭcŭlum rēmōrum tantum nŭmĕrum prōdens, sed hŏmĭnum făcies dīlĭgenter abscondens.' Some suppose that Alfred derived his word dulmúnus from the Icel. drómundr, m. which Egilsson, in his Lexĭcon Poëtĭcum, Hafniæ, 8vo. 1860, explains 'nāves grandior, cūjus gĕnĕris tantum extra regiōnes septemtrionāles, ut in mări mediterrāneo, mentio fit,' S.E. i. 582, 3, Orkn. 82, 1, 3. Vigfusson, in his Icelandic-English Dictionary, 4to. Oxford, 1869-1874, in drómundr gives only the Latin and Greek, and O. H. Ger. drahemond as cognates. What Orosius, calls longas nāves, Alfred translates dulmúnus in Anglo-Saxon. As we read in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of A.D. 897; Th. i. 174, 4, Hét Ælfréd cyng timþrian lang-scipu ongén ða æscas king Alfred commanded to build long-ships against-, those ships, v. ÆSC IV.-Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, says
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Ǽr he [Ercol] ongan mid Creáca scypum, ðe mon dulmúnus hǽt, ðe man segþ ðæt in scip mǽge in þúsend manna before he [Hercules] began with Grecian ships, which are called dulmunus, of which it is said that one ship can hold a thousand men, Ors. 1, 10; Bos

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