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loppe

(n.)
Grammar
loppe, an; f.

A flea a spidera silk-worm

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Icel. lyppa wool drawn into a long hank before being spun? In Ps. Lamb. 38, 12 sicut araneam is glossed 'swá swá ǽtterloppan'; if this is not a mistake for 'áttercoppan,' by which the word is rendered in Ps.

drípan

(v.)
Grammar
drípan, p. te
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[From this form drype an infin. dryppan is inferred in the N. E. D. (v. drip:) but the form may be taken as a subjunctive, cf. the following instances of that mood in Lch. :-- Nime þysse wyrte wós, dó on, i. 266, 8.

Linked entry: dryppan

ge-hogian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-hogian, p. ode; pp. od.
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to resolve, determine, with infin.

Linked entry: ge-hycgan

sáwel-sceatt

(n.)
Grammar
sáwel-sceatt, es; m.

An ecclesiastical due

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Dip. i. lxii, remarks that in lands leased by the Church, and exclusively in such, there is frequently a stipulation for the payment of sáwelsceat. For the practice in the case of gilds, see Chart.

Linked entry: sáwel-gescot

an-

(prefix)

againstin returncontrare-un-onininto

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is used in composition, for A.

uma

(n.)
Grammar
uma, huma, an; m.

a weaver's beamthe name of some plant

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Voc. i. 66, 25: scafus, 282, 8(in each case the word occurs in a list of terms connected with weaving). Huma scafus, Corpus Gl. ed.

Linked entry: huma

á-scínan

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Ne oncneów ic hweþer in Langbeardum ǽfre ásceonan ǽnigra manna líf mid mægnum non in Italia aliquorum vitam virtutibus fulsisse cognovi, Gr. D. 7, 8

drepan

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Hé wearð drepen in þá sceare percussus in inguine, 324, 14. Hé wæs in feorh dropen, B. 2981. On gemynd drepen stupefied, Gen. 1571. Add

sóþ

(prefix)
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occurs in the Northern specimens apparently corresponding to Latin pro in compounds Sóð wé cliopiaþ provocamus, Rtl. 42, 15. In sóð (sóðe, Rush.) cneóreso in progenies, Lk. Skt. Lind. 1, 50. Sóð cymes procedit, Jn. Skt. Lind. Rush. 15, 26.

ǽ-cræftig

(adj.)
Grammar
ǽ-cræftig, adj.

Law-craftyone skilled in lawa lawyerscribelegis peritus

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Law-crafty, one skilled in law, a lawyer, scribe; legis peritus Him ǽcræftig andswarode to them the skilled in law answered, Cd. 212; Th. 262, 10; Dan. 742

freólslíce

(adv.)
Grammar
freólslíce, adv.

Solemnlyfreelysollennĭterlībĕre

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In ðæm he freólslíce meahte lifian in which he might freely live, Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, note 30

ge-hwilc

Grammar
ge-hwilc, <b>;
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</b> add In gehwylcum men ( in vivente quolibet ) þá hwíle þe hé leofað se gǽst byþ hæfd on þám líchaman, Gr. D. 303, 23

tung-wód

(adj.)
Grammar
tung-wód, adj.
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Tongue-mad, violent in speech Uppstige sandfull on fótum forealdudes swá wíf tungwód menn stillum ascensus arenosus in pedibus ueterani, sic mulier linguata homini quieto, Scint. 223, 13

háten

(adj.)
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Perhaps for hátene in the passage should be read háte (cf. for case mid glówende ísene, Lch. ii. 216, 1), or hátum ; in either the termination of ísene (?)

on-hyreness

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Wilt þú ꝥ þú hwæthugu in Nonnoses weorce oncnáwe eác be Heliseus onhyrenesse ? visne aliquid in operatione Nonnosi de imitatione quoque Blisaei cognoscere ?, Gr. D. 50, 5. Add

stellan

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Þá þára gásta gehwylc his ácsunge synderlíce gerehton, . . . þá stelde (stælde, v. l.) þǽr án forð in heora middle (unus in medium prosiliit), Gr. D. 189, 13. Add

un-wiþerweardlic

(adj.)
Grammar
un-wiþerweardlic, adj.
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Not in opposition, in union, united Hié ealle cumað tó Críste on þám heofonlican wuldre, and hié ðonne onginnaí singan Drihtne níwne sang swíðe unwiðerweardlicum stefnum, Nap. 66

wrixend-lic

(adj.)
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Mutual In þám freóndlican geflite þǽre wrixiendlicari eádmódnesse in hac mutuae humilitatis amica contentione. Gr. D. 116, 7

áninga

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Þonne byrneð ánunga ł in sceortnisse ( in breui) eorre his, Ps. Rdr. 2, 13. Hrędlíce ł ánunga uelociter, 6, II. Ánunga per singula, Jn. L. 21, 25. Add

winter-set

(n.)
Grammar
winter-set, es; n.

A place to stop in for the winter;in pl. winter-quarters

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A place to stop in for the winter; in pl. winter-quarters Se here... ðǽr wintersetu (-sætu, v. l.) námon, Chr. 886; Th. i. 156, cols. 2, 3