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byrele

(n.)
Grammar
byrele, es; m.
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Add: <b>byrele,</b> an; f. Æt þám cnihte þe wæs þæs bisceopes byrele (byrle, v. l.) the bishop's cupbearer, Gr. D. 186, 22. Be ðám byrle þe ðone apostol eárplætte, Hml. Th. ii. 520, 13. Ǽlcan gesettan discðegne and gesettan biriele, C.

byrele

(n.)
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a cup-bearer, butler, Wrt. Voc. 290, 51: Beo. Th. 2327; B. 1161

Linked entry: byrle

wín-byrele

(n.)
Grammar
wín-byrele, es; m.

A vintner

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A vintner Wínbyrele caupo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 21, 13

Linked entry: byrele

BYRLE

(n.)
Grammar
BYRLE, byrele, es; m.
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Byrele pincerna. Wrt. Voc. 290, 51. Þurh byreles hond through the cup-bearer's hand, Exon. 88a; Th. 330, 15; Vy. 51. Byrlas ne gǽldon the cup-bearers delayed not, Andr. Kmbl. 3065 ; An. 1535.

Linked entry: byrele

byrene

(n.)
Grammar
byrene, an; f.
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A she-bear; ursa, Ælfc. Gl. 21; Som. 59, 70; Wrt. Voc. 23, 29

byrle

Similar entry: byrele

byreþ

(v.)
Grammar
byreþ, bears, Beo. Th. 598; B. 296;
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3rd pers. pres. of beran

byrgels

(n.)
Grammar
byrgels, birgels, bergels, es; m.
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A BURIAL-place, sepulchre, tomb; sepulcrum, bustum Byrgels bustum, Cot. 183. To birgelse in possessionem sepulcri, Gen. 23, 9

Linked entries: bergyls birgels

byrgere

(n.)
Grammar
byrgere, es; m.
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A burier, corpse-bearer; vespillo, Cot. 155

Byríne

(n.)
Grammar
Byríne, es; m.
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Birinus, the first bishop of Wessex, Chr. 649; Th. 50, 3, col. 2, 3; 51, 2, col. 1

býreþ

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it pertains to, it is lawful; pertinet ad, licet, Jn. Lind. War. 10, 13

byrgels

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Oð ðone héðenan byrgels, C. D. iii. 421, 35. In hǽðenan byrigels, 380, 24. On ðá hǽðenan byrigelsas; ðonne of ðám byrgelsum, 407, 2. Byrgelsum bustis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 2: 12, 6. Add

byrgere

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Dorh buyrgeras per vispellones, Txts. 86, 760. Byrgeras, Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 1. Add

byrnete

(n.)
Grammar
byrnete, a
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barnacle Byrnete lolligo, Nip. 11. [v. N. E. D. barnacle.]

byre

(n.)
Grammar
byre, gen. byres; dat. byre; acc. byre: pl. nom. acc. byras, byre; gen. byra; dat. byrum; m.
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A son, child, descendant; natus, filius, soboles, proles Ðonne ǽfre byre monnes hýrde under heofonum than ever child of man heard under heaven, Exon. 57b; Th. 206, 18; Ph. 128: Beo. Th. 4113; B. 3053. Ðǽr hyre byre wǽron where her sons were, 2381; B.

Linked entry: ge-byre

byrde

(adj.)
Grammar
byrde, sup. byrdest, def. se byrdesta; adj.
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Born, well-born, noble, rich; natus, natu vel genere præstans, nobilis, opulentus Se byrdesta sceall gyldan the richest must pay, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 36

byren

(adj.)
Grammar
byren, adj.
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Belonging to a bear; ursinus, Som. Ben. Lye

byrne

(n.)
Grammar
byrne, an; f.
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Running water, a stream; torrens, rivus Ofer byrnan bðsm over the stream's bosom, Exon. 102a; Th. 386, 15; Rä. 4, 62

byrce

Grammar
byrce, barking.

Similar entry: birce

byren

Similar entry: biren

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