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here-gild

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Add: tax levied to provide money to buy of the Danes (v. here; I. 2 c ¶ l) On þan ylcan geáre áléde Eádweard cyng ꝥ heregyld ꝥ Æþelréd cyng ǽr ástealde, Chr. 1052; P. 173, 18. Ic ðat só fele síðe só men gildeð hire gilde tó heregilde, C.

lutian

(v.)
Grammar
lutian, p. ode

lurkskulk

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Nys hyt swá stearc winter ðæt ic durre lutian æt hám for ege hláfordes mínes non est tam aspera hyems ut audeam latere domi prae timore domini mei, Coll. Monast. Th. 19, 17.

seld-

(adj.; prefix)
Grammar
seld-, sel-, syl-líc ; adj.
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Syllíce tácn, Blickl. Homl. 91, 29. Syllíce stanas monstrous stones, 189, 15. Seldlícra fela many wonderful creatures, Exon. Th. 193, 34 ; Az. 131. Hit is sellícre ðæt hiora ǽnig ne mæg bútan óðrum bión, Met. 11, 50.

á-dón

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Voc. ii. 27, 66. up Ðæt hé hine up ádyde that he should take up the body from the tomb, Hml. S. 21, 138. Hædde hét his líchoman up ádón and lǽdon tó Wintonceastre ( translatus in Ventam civitatem Bd. 3, 7; S. 529, 24.

BEORMA

(n.)
Grammar
BEORMA, an; m : bearm, es; m.

Barmleavenyeastfrothfermentum

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Nim ele and hunig and beorman take oil and honey and barm Lchdm. i. 398, 6 : Exon. 71 b; Th. 266, 11; Jul. 396

Linked entries: and-beorma ge-byrman

hræfn

(n.)
Grammar
hræfn, es; m.

A crab

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Genim cucune hrefn ádó ða eágan of and eft cucune gebring on wætre take a live crab, put its eyes out, and put it back in the water alive, L. M. 3, 2; Lchdm. ii. 306, 20

leáf-full

(adj.)
Grammar
leáf-full, adj.

Believingfaithful

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God cwæþ tó Moysen ðæt hé wolde cuman and hine ætforan ðam folce gesprecan ðæt hí ðý leáffulran wǽron God said to Moses that he would come and talk with him before the people, that they might be the more believing [v. Exod. 19, 9], Homl.

sceóta

(n.)
Grammar
sceóta, an; m.
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The shoates with which is Tavy fraught. — Browne's Brit. Past.,' E. D. S. Pub. E. Cornwall Gloss. Shote, a small kind of trout, W. Cornwall] Hwilce fixas geféhst ðú ? . . . sceótan ( tructos ). Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 33

steorfa

(n.)
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steorfa, an; m.
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P. iv. 27; Th. i. 212, 3. a place where death has taken place(?) Andlang móres tó síferþingcsteorfan, Cod. Dip. B. i. 296, 34

un-árlíc

(adj.)
Grammar
un-árlíc, adj.

dishonourabledisgracefulshamefulunkindly

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Sægde Lameh unárlíc spel ( a tale of shame ): 'Ic honda gewemde on Caines cwealme,' Cd. Th. 66, 31; Gen. 1092. unkindly Unárlíce yrfebéc a will in which nothing is left to nearest relatives; inofficiosum testamentum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 17

wordlian

(v.)
Grammar
wordlian, wurdlian; p. ode

To talkdiscourse

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To talk, discourse Wurdliaþ (changed from wurdiaþ) rhetoricamur, loquimur, . . . snytrian ł wurðlian philosophari, Hpt. Gl. 527, 58-63. Epactas ðe wíse preóstas oft ymbe gerádlíce wurdliaþ, Anglia viii. 300, 45.

á-lesan

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Monig óþer tácu mæg on þǽre béc gemétan swá hwylc swá hié rǽdeð, þe wé þás of álǽson (-lésan, v. l.) de quo haec excerpsimus, Bd. 4, 10; Sch. 400, 21

ge-mǽnan

(v.)
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Take here <b>ge-mǽnan;</b> in Dict. and add Ðá ðe gemǽnas qui lugent, Mt. L. 5, 5. Ne gemǽnde gé nan planxistis, ii. 17. Gemǽnde uapulabil, Lk. L. 12, 47. v. mǽnan to lament

hildan

(v.)

to bendincline

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Take here hyldan in Dict., and add: trans. Ne drinc ðú of þǽre flascan, ac hyld (inclina) þú hí wærlíce, Gr. D. 142, 5. Þá þá hé helde ł bígede cum (membra sopori) dedisset i. inclinasset, An. Ox. 2105. intrans.

Linked entries: hyldan heldan -hilde

holh

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Gif þonne seó nǽdre befleáh hine in hwylc holh, gif hé þonne gebletsode þæs hóles múð mid þǽre halgan róde tácne, sóna ofer ꝥ wæs seó nǽdre getogen deád of þám hóle quem si quando serpens in foramine fugerit, signo cruces os foraminis benedicit, statimque

plyccan

(v.)
Grammar
plyccan, p. plyhte.
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Gylecan tácen is þæt þú strece forð þín wenstre handstoc and plyce innan mid þínre wynstran hande, 127, 15

Linked entry: plicettan

swigian

(v.)
Grammar
swigian, <b>. I b.</b>
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Add Sé ðe wilnað wóh tó dónne, and wilnað ðeáh ðæt ðæs óðre men sugigen (swugien, v.l.) qui et prava studet agere, et tamen ad haec vult caeteros tacere, Past. 145, 12.

CRABBA

(n.)
Grammar
CRABBA, an; m.

A CRAB, crayfish cancera sign of the zodiaccancer signum zodiacicancer

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Feórþa ðæra tácna ys geháten cancer, ðæt is crabba the fourth of the signs is called cancer, that is, a crab Bd. de nat. rerum; Wrt. popl. science 7, 5; Lchdm. iii. 244, 25

on-tydran

(v.)

to nourish, support

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stillicidium illud olei, in medium magnae flammae cadens exstinxit fomitem tanti ignis, an aluit? Ors. 4, 7; Swt. 182, 22-26

á-tǽsan

(v.)
Grammar
á-tǽsan, p.de

To tear with a weapon

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Ðæt áhrérede mód, ðonne hit ongiet ðæt him mon birgð, mid ðǽre gesceádlican andsware hit bið átǽsed on ðæt ingeðonc commotas mentes, dum et parci sibi sentiunt, et tamen responsorum ratione in intimis tanguntur, Past. 296, 17