un-súr
Not sour
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Not sour Eala forgá and meoloc þicge unsúre, Lchdm. ii. 292, 30
Linked entry: súr
un-gereord
Not having an intelligible language
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Not having an intelligible language Ungereord barbarus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 125, 22
Linked entry: ge-reord
un-hrór
Not stirring
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Not stirring Unhrórum neátum immobilibus animantibus, Bt. 41, 5; Fox 254, 14
ge-met
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Perhaps in the passages given here gemet is a noun used predicatively
un-geméde
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Perhaps this word should be taken as a noun; see mád-mód
wacan
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This infinitive form does not occur, its place seems taken by wæcnan
lustbǽr-ness
Desire ⬩ pleasure ⬩ pleasantness
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Hí náne lustbǽrnisse nabbaþ hí tó sécanne they have no desire to seek them, Bt. 32, 3; Fox 118, 23. Lustbǽrnesse nimþ cupidinem contrahat, L. Ecg. P. iii. 14; Th. ii. 202, 4: Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 72
a-dón
To take away ⬩ remove ⬩ banish ⬩ tollere ⬩ ejicere
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To take away, remove, banish; tollere, ejicere Ne mágon ðé nú heonan adón hyrste ða reádan the red ornaments may not now take thee hence, Exon. 99a; Th. 370, 14; Seel. 57.
Linked entry: a-dydest
ge-myndigian
to remember
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Ðæt ðú ne gemyndgast æfter mandreáme ne gewittes wást bútan wildeóra ðeáw that thou shalt not understand after the manner of the joy of man, nor know aught but the manner of wild beasts, Cd. 203; Th. 251, 29; Dan. 571.
tweóne
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two; only in combination with the preposition be, either immediately following it (v. be-tweónum) or being separated from it by the governed noun, the two words together in either case having the force of between Be sǽm tweónum, ofer eormengrund, Beo
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wriþa
a band ⬩ collar ⬩ a ring
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Mid wriþan treówenum gewriþen grundweall getimbrunge ná byþ tóslopen loramento ligneo conligatum fundamentum aedificii non dissoluitur, 200, 8. Smeáþancollíce wriþan ł cnottan cræftelícum sertaque mystica, Germ. 389, 28.
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ÍDEL
empty ⬩ destitute ⬩ void ⬩ devoid ⬩ vain ⬩ useless ⬩ idle ⬩ idle ⬩ unemployed
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It is not a house unless it be filled with a household, Homl. Th. ii. 502, 12.
gódian
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</b> with a noun as subject Eówer kynedóm gódað þurh heora gódan geearnunga. Hml. S. 5, 444.
foxes glófa
Foxglove ⬩ digĭtālis purpŭrea
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Cockayne says, in note b on this passage,—'Strychnos manikos is Sōlānum insānum or Sodŏmeum fairly drawn, MS. V. fol. 60 a, not an English plant, and certainly not foxglove.
rǽcan
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R. 19, 29. a non-material thing, to give, bestow Þine dómas rǽcað gehwám ágen gewyrhta, Hy. 7, 15. Rǽc fultume tribue auxilium, Rtl. 41, 11: 23,9
þæslíce
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Hé ne dyde þæslíce ǽlcere þeóde non fecit taliter omni nationi, Ps. Lamb. 47, 20 : Blickl. Gl.
trum-líc
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Bd. 2, 17; S. 520, 19 note. v. next word
wending
Turning ⬩ a turning round ⬩ revolution ⬩ changing ⬩ mutation
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Cf. wendan On ánre wendinge, ða hwíle ðe hé (the firmament) ǽne betyrnð, gǽð forð feówor and twéntig tída Hexam. 5; Norm. 8, 30. a turning up or over Gif ðǽr sié ðæs hrifes wendung if the stomach be upset (?)
hú-meta
How ⬩ quomodo
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Nú is tó besceáwigenne húmeta se ælmihtiga God geþafaþ ðæt ... now it is to be considered how it is that the almighty God permits that ..., 486, 17.
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twi-bille
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Double-edged Bipennis twibille vel stánæx (the double gloss seems to render the double character of the Latin word as adjective and noun; a little later (see preceding word) in the same glossary bipennis as noun is rendered by twybill ), Wrt.
Linked entry: -bille