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swipian

(v.)
Grammar
swipian, sweopian; p. ode
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To scourge, strike, beat, lash Hafaþ hé gyrde lange and ðone feónd sweopaþ, Salm. Kmbl. 185, MS. A.; Sal. 92. Rodor swipode meredeáða mǽst the destroying sea lashed the skies, Cd. Th. 207, 8; Exod. 463

Linked entry: swippan

wlátian

(v.)
Grammar
wlátian, p. ode

To gazelook

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To gaze, look Hraðe wæs æt holme hýðweard, se ðe ǽr lange tíd feor wlátode, Beo. Th. 3837; B. 1916. Ðæt is gefylled, ðæt se fróda mid eágum on wlátade, Exon. Th. 20, 34; Cri. 327

geond-féran

(v.)
Grammar
geond-féran, p. -férde; pp. -féred [geond through, féran to go]
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Ic geondférde fela fremdra londa I traversed many foreign lands, Exon. 85 b; Th. 321, 22; Wíd. 50: 84 b; Th. 318, 23; Wíd. 3

web

(n.)
Grammar
web, webb, es; n.
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Lang web tela, 59, 20. Webb byþ gefylled mid þrǽdum tela consummatur filis, Scint.216, 2. Webbes pepli, Hpt. Gl. 459, 26. Goldfág scinon web æfter wágum shot with gold shone the work of the loom along the walls, Beo. Th. 1994; B. 995.

Linked entry: wæbb

gird

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Comm., Andrews's Old English Manor, s. v. yardland Ic gesealde hym áne gyrde landes tó underwedde . . . Ðis sind þá landgemǽro þǽre gyrde, Cht. Crw. 9, 119-122. Be gyrde (girde, v. l. ) londes. Gif mon geþingað gyrde landes oþþe máre, Ll.

hunig

(n.)
Grammar
hunig, es; n.

Honey

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Tó ðam lande ðe eall fléwþ on riðum meolce and hunies ... of ðam lande ðe weóll meolce and hunie in terram, quæ fluit rivis lactis et mellis ... de terra, quæ lacte et melle manabat, Num. 16, 14, 13.

Linked entry: teár-líc

for-ðam

(con.)
Grammar
for-ðam, for-ðæm, for-ðan, for-ðon, for-ðam-ðe, for-ðæm-ðe, for-ðan-ðe, for-ðon-ðe; conj, [for that which]

For thatfor that reason whichforbecausenamquia

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Forðonðe sió sunne ðǽr gǽþ neár on setl, ðonne on óðrum lande, ðǽr syndon lýðran wedera ðonne on Brittannia because the sun in its setting goes nearer there than in any other land, there are milder weathers than in Britain, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 24, 20, 32:

Linked entries: for-ða for-ðon

lícian

(v.)
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Add: to please, with person or thing as subject. absolute On ǽlcum lande ne lícað ꝥ on óþrum lícaþ, Bt. 18, 2 ; F. 64, 26. Hé wilnað ungemetlíce lícigean (lícian, v. l. ), Past. 143, 6.

irþ

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Add: ploughing On manegum landum tilð bið redre ðonne on óðrum; ge yrðe tíma hrædra, Angl. ix. 259, 10. Yrðe georne forðian, 261, 21. Yrde, 5. a crop ; seges Eard, Bd. 4, 28; Sch. 521, 15

Súþ-Langbeardan

(n.)
Grammar
Súþ-Langbeardan, the people (or
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country) of Lombardy In þám dǽlum Súþ-Langbeardena (Suð-Langbeardena landes dǽlum, v. l.) in Campaniae partibus, Gr. D. 169, 30. In Suð-Langbeardum (-Longbardum, v. l.) in Italia, 25, 26: in parte Campaniae, 210, 25

á-fédan

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Hé gyrnde landes ꝥ hé mihte hine on áfédan, Chr. 1049; P. 168, 17. Áfoedde confoti , Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 25. of that which produces food Hú þis land mihte þone here áfédan.

Beó-wulf

(n.)
Grammar
Beó-wulf, es; m. [ = Beado-wulf a war-wolf, = Icel. Böðúlfr a warwulf]

BEOWULF

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in, in the Swedish lands.

Linked entry: Beado-wulf

eást-healf

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On eásthealfe þæs landes líþ gársecg, S. 14, 2. Add

foran-niht

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Hit gelamp on þǽre nihte ꝥ se cyning læg wæccende lange on forannihte, Hml. A. 98, 209. De completorio (Forannihtsang) On foranniht wé sculon God herian ǽr wé tó bedde gán, Btwk. 218, 34: 194, 14. Add

Linked entry: foranniht-sang

FREMEDE

(adj.)
Grammar
FREMEDE, fremde, fremþe, fræmde; adj.

Strangeforeignestranged fromdevoid ofaliēnusperegrīnusaliēnātusaversusremōtusexpers

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On lande fremdre in terra aliēna, Ps. Spl. 136, 5. Ne ðú fremedne god gebiddest neque adōrābis deam aliēnum, Ps. Th. 80, 9. Wilt ðú fremdne monnan grétan wilt thou address a strange man? Exon. 92 b; Th. 346, 20; Sch. 1.

wícian

(v.)
Grammar
wícian, p. ode.
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Skt. i. 13, 226. in case of travel by water, to land Þyder hé cwæð ðæt man mihte geseglian on ánum mónðe, gyf man on niht wícode ... and ealle ða hwíle hé sceal seglian be lande, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 19, 13.

Linked entry: ge-wícian

hál

(adj.)
Grammar
hál, adj.
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Ðá betǽhte Ecgferþ on hálre tungan land and bóc Dunstáne then Ecgferth in plain, unequivocal language delivered land and charter to Dunstan [cf. Icel. með heilum hug sincerely ], Th. Chart. 208, 11. Hál wes ðú Iudéa cyning Haue rex Iudæorum, Mt.

Linked entry: hǽl

Cerdic

(n.)
Grammar
Cerdic, es; m.

CerdicCerdĭcus

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And six years after they landed, they subdued the West-Saxons' kingdom; and they were the first kings, who conquered the West-Saxons' land from the Welsh; and he had the kingdom sixteen years; and when he died, then his son Cynric succeeded

ge-unnan

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Hí habbað geunnen twá land in tó ðǽre hálgan stówe, C.

tó-clifrian

(v.)
Grammar
tó-clifrian, p. ode
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Hé unscrýdde hine ealne, and wylode hine sylfne on ðam þiccum brémlum and þornum swá lange, ðæt hé eall tóclifrod árás, Homl. Th. ii. 156, 30