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beó-breád

(n.)
Grammar
beó-breád, bió-breád, bí-breád, es; n.

BEE-BREAD ⬩ apum panis ⬩ honey-comb ⬩ favus

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Hit is hunige micle and beóbreáde betere and swétre it is better and sweeter than much honey and bee-bread Ps.

Linked entries: beón-breád bí-breád bió-breád

beó-breád

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Beóbreád is on twám ðingum, on weaxe and on hunie, Hml, Th. ii. 292, 13-15. Werednm beóbreáde dulci favo, Wülck. Gl. 225, 19. Sáwl áfylled trytt beóbreád, Scint. 50, 9: Lch. ii. 126, I. Hé æt huniges beóbreád, Shrn. 68, 31. Biábreád, Ps.

bród

(n.)
Grammar
bród, e; f.

a brood ⬩ breeding ⬩ hatching

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Substitute: a brood: Beócere apiarius, beóbreád favum, bród gratis (cf. grates (e over i which is struck out), cellae apium, Corp. Gl. H. 61, 170), Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 71: ii. 41, 26. Of ðám hunige beón brédað heora bród, Hml. Th. ii. 10, 17.

Linked entry: bród

hunig-camb

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I' substitute: Angl. xiii. 368, 46, and add Sáwl gefylled trytt béóbreád ł hunigcamb anima saturata calcabit fauum, Scint. 50, 9.

BLANDAN

(v.)
Grammar
BLANDAN, blondan, ic blande, blonde, ðú blandest, he blandeþ, blent, pl. blandaþ; p. ic, he bleónd, blénd, ðú bleónde, blénde, pl. bleóndon, bléndon; pp. blanden, blonden

To mix, BLEND, mingle ⬩ miscere

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To mix, BLEND, mingle; miscere Ic eom on góman gena swétra ðonne ðú beóbreád blénde mid hunige I am yet sweeter on the palate than if thou blendedst bee-bread with honey, Exon. 111 a; Th. 425, 21; Rä. 41, 59

Linked entries: be-blonden blondan

GÓMA

(n.)
Grammar
GÓMA, an; m.
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Ic eom on góman swétra ðonne ðú beóbreád blende mid hunige sweeter am I on the palate than didst thou blend honeycomb with honey, Exon. 111 a; Th. 425, 18; Rä. 41, 58: 113 a; Th. 433, 11; Rä. 50, 6.

weorod

(adj.)
Grammar
weorod, werod (-ed); adj.
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Weredre itel wynsumre dulcisone, i. blanda, weredum beóbreáde vel swǽsum dulci favo, Wülck. Gl. 225, 17, 20. Werede ðigene nectareum edulium, Hpt. Gl. 413, 38: mulsum, 417, 56. Werede mulsa, 408, 32 : dulcia, Kent. Gl. 179.

FISC

(n.)
Grammar
FISC, es; pl. nom. acc. fiscas, fixas, fisceas; gen. fisca, fixa; dat. fiscum, fixum; m.

A FISH ⬩ piscis

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Híg brohton him dǽl gebrǽddes fisces, and beóbreád illi obtŭlērunt ei partem piscis assi, et făvum mellis, Lk. Bos. 24, 42: Mt. Bos. 7, 10: Deut. 4, 18.

Linked entry: fen-fixas

tredan

(v.)
Grammar
tredan, p. træd, pl, trǽdon; pp. treden.

to tread ⬩ tread down ⬩ trample upon ⬩ to tread upon ⬩ step upon ⬩ walk upon

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Th. 56, 4; Gen. 907. in figurative senses, glossing Latin words Sáwl gefylled trytt (calcabit; tret, Kent, Gl. 1015) beóbreád the full soul loatheth an honeycomb (Prov. 27, 7), Scint. 50, 8. Tredaþ terimus (otia temporum). Wrt. Voc. ii. 78, 12

þanne

Grammar
þanne, <b>A. IV.</b>
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Ic eom swétra þonne þú beóbreád blende mid hunige, Rä. 41, 59. Add Ðé is leófre on ðisum wácum scræfum ðonne ðú on healle heálic biscop sitte, Hml. Th. ii. 146, 28. Hié wǽron bliðran tó ðám deáðe þonne hý hér on hǽðengilde lifden, Shrn. 142, 13.

swéte

(adj.)
Grammar
swéte, adj.
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Gif hwá biteres hwes onberede, ðæt him þúhte beóbreád ðí swétre, Bt. 23 tit.; Fox xiv, 10. Sweótran ofer hunig, Ps.

Linked entries: swerum swót

swǽs

(adj.)
Grammar
swǽs, adj.
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Weredum beóbreáde vel swǽsum dulci favo Wrt. Voc. ii. 142, 9. Fram swésere tungan a blanda lingua Kent. Gl. 159. Steorran forléton hyra swǽsne wlite the stars resigned their sweet beauty Exon. Th. 71, 1; Cri. 1149.

Linked entries: swáse swés

on

Grammar
on, Add: <b>A. I.</b> 5 ¶
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Beóbreád is on twám ðingum, on weaxe and on hunie. Críst is on twám edwistum, Hml. Th. ii. 292, 14. Bióð ealle wæteras and ealle wyllas on blóde omnes fontes aquarum et putei in sanguinem convertentur, Verc. Först. 120, 9.

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