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Anglo-Saxon

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gang-setl

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Add: A stool (of a privy) Þás úplendiscan wíf wyllað oft drincan and furþon etan fúllíce on gangsetlum . . . hit is bysmor þæt ǽnig man . . . þone múð ufan mid mettum áfylle, and on óðerne ende him gange þæt meox út fram, and drince þonne ǽgðer ge þæt

handlinga

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Ða men handlunga (mid heora handum, v. l. in manibus ) genámon ꝥ wíf of þám gebedhúse, 73, 7. Þá ongunnon ðá hǽðenan hí handlinga áteón, Hml. S. 11, 247

Beorg-ford

(n.)
Grammar
Beorg-ford, Beorh-ford, es; m. [beorg a hill, ford a ford; collis ad vadum]

BURFORD in Oxfordshire

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Beorhforda], wið Æðelbald, Myrcena cing, and hine geflýmde here, in 752 Cuthred, king of the West-Saxons, fought in the twenty-second year of his reign, at Burford, with Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, and conquered him Chr. 752; Erl. 49, 13

lissan

(v.)

to soften ⬩ weaken ⬩ tame ⬩ subdue

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... the wild bird she devours ... the wolf she conquers, Salm.

a-scádan

(v.)

to separate

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Wih. 3; Th. i. 36, 19

clénsian

(v.)
Grammar
clénsian, to cleanse,

clear oneself

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Win. 22; Th. i. 42, 4

togung

(n.)
Grammar
togung, e; f.
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Spasm Wið sina togunge, Lchdm. i. 136, 9, 19

ác-melu

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Wið tóðwyrmum, genim ácmela, Lch. ii. 50, 16. Add

be-sceredness

(n.)
Grammar
be-sceredness, e; f.

Deprivation ⬩ abdication

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Deprivation, abdication Bescyrednesse abdicatione, Wit. Voc. ii. 7, 57

Linked entry: be-scyrednes

mete-cweorra

(n.)
Grammar
mete-cweorra, an; m.
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Wið metecweorran, Lch. iii. 60, 4

Linked entries: -cweorra á-cweorran

ofer-hát

(adj.)
Grammar
ofer-hát, adj.
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Excessively hot Wið ómum oferhátum, Lch. ii. 10, 6

stunian

(v.)
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Add Stunað heó wið attre, Lch. iii. 36, 7

wund-spring

(n.)
Grammar
wund-spring, es; m.
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An ulcerous wound Wið wundspringum, Lch. i. 356, 20

-wintre

(suffix)
Grammar
-wintre, The form is combined with the cardinals to make adjectives denoting the age of the object to which the adjective is applied. v. e.g. án-, fíf-, sixtíne-, sixtig-, hundseofontig-, hundtwégentig-wintre.

-metod

(suffix)
Grammar
-metod, [In the phrase se metoda drihten, metoda is not a gen. pl., as suggested in Dict., but either a wk. noun or adjective, as will be seen from the following examples
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Micel mildheortnys þæs metodan Dryhtnes, Hml. Th. ii. 316, 21. Menigfealde beóð þæs metodan Drihtnes egsan and swingla ofer scyldigum mannum, 328, 32 (both passages are alliterative).] Add: :-- Se metod eallra gesceafta (cf. se milda metod. Met. 29, 68

on-flyge

(n.)
Grammar
on-flyge, es; m.
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Infectious disease, disease which, as it were, flies at people Ðú miht wið áttre and wið onflyge, Lchdm. iii. 32, 2, 16, 30. v. preceding word and ongeflogen; and cf. Icel. á-flog, flying at a person, fighting

Linked entries: flyge flygen

mundbyrdness

(n.)
Grammar
mundbyrdness, e; f.

protection ⬩ A protector ⬩ patron ⬩ advocate ⬩ a protection of rights granted by charter

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Frag. 106, 24. in a personal sense (v. mund, III. b), A protector, patron, advocate Ic ðé mé tó mundbyrdnysse geceóse wið ðín ágen bearn I choose thee for my advocate with thy own child, 106, 19.

cynd

(n.)
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.: es; n. nature Nis nán gesceaft ðe hé tiohhige ꝥ hió scyle winnan wiþ hire Scippendes willan, gif hió hire cynd (gecynd v. l.) healdan wile nihil est quod naturam servans Deo contraire conetur, Bt. 35, 4; F. 160, 23.

glengan

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Add: to adorn with material ornaments Glensþ ( = glengst) comas (si tu te sumptuosius comas, Ald. 75, 5), An. Ox. 8, 332. Glencaþ comunt i. ornant, 11. Hí glencgað heora wíf mid þám þe hí weófoda sceoldan, Ll. Th. ii. 328, 7.

drían

(n.)
Grammar
drían, = dríum = drýum with sorcerers, Glostr. Frag. 10, 30: as fisceran and fugeleran = fiscerum and fugelerum, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 5; the dative plural of dri, drý, fiscere, and fugelere, q. v.

Linked entry: drí

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