Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

tapor

(n.)
Grammar
tapor, (-er, -ur); m.

A taper; also the wick of a lamp

Entry preview:

Taporas cereos, Germ. 395, 72. Taperas, Lchdm. iii. 202, 4

Linked entries: tapor-berend teaper

tapor

Entry preview:

Þá gefylde hé mid wætre þǽre cyrcan cyllan and sette tapor (weocon, v.l.) onmiddan (in medio papyrum posuit ), Gr. D. 44, 14. Add

tapor-berend

(n.)
Grammar
tapor-berend, es; m.

An acolyte

Entry preview:

Similar entries tapor) Taporberend accolitus, Anglia xiii. 418, 759. Taporber[n]endum accolitis, 424, 840

tapor-æx

(n.)
Grammar
tapor-æx, e; f.

A small axe

Entry preview:

A small axe Swá feorr swá mæg án taperæx beón geworpen út of ðam scipe up on ðæt land quam longius de nave potest securis parvula, quam Angli vacant tapereax super terram projici, Chart. Th. 317, 30. Habbe hé áne taperæx on his [handa], Chr. 1031; Erl

tapor-æx

Entry preview:

Dele (borrowed from English) in bracket. The word seems Slavonic as to its first part, cf. Russian topor an axe, and to have come from Scandinavia to England

tácor

(n.)
Grammar
tácor, ,(-ur)es; m.

A husband's brother, brother-in-law

Entry preview:

A husband's brother, brother-in-law Tácor (tácur) levir, Txts. 74, 598. Tácor, Ælfc. Gr. 8; Zup. 27, 20: levir, i. frater mariti, Wrt. Voc. i. 52, 31. Tácor, ðæt is brýdguma[n] bróðor levirum, ii. 84, 16. Tácor, 50, 30: Hpt. Gl. 498, 75

tappa

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
tappa, teappa?
Entry preview:

Of rúwan beorge on teappan treów; of tappan treów on westleás hagan, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 277, 21. Teppan hýse, i. 194, 36. On teppen cnolle, iii, 415, 19. Ad Tapan halan, ii. 344, 6

Linked entry: teappa

tasol

Similar entry: teosol

tær

(adj.)
Grammar
tær, (?); adj.

Gaping, cleft(?)

Entry preview:

Gaping, cleft(?) Ða giniendan oððe tara hiulcas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 49

candel-wyrt

(n.)
Grammar
candel-wyrt, e; f. [candel a candle, wyrt a herb, plant] CANDLE-WORT, hedge-taper, mullein; lucernaria, phlomos = φλόμος verbacum; thapsus, Lin. A plant useful for wicks 'of lamps
Entry preview:

Candelwyrt phlomos [MS. fromos] vel lucernaria [MS. lucernaris ]. Ælfc. Gl. 44; Som. 64, 90; Wrt. Voc. 32, 25

weóce

Entry preview:

For third passage substitute Þá gefyllde hé mid wætere ealle þǽre cyrcean ciellan and sette weócon (tapor, v.l.) onmiddan ( in media papyrum posuit), and þá mid fýre ontennde, Gr. D. 44, 15

weax-berende

(adj.)
Grammar
weax-berende,

bearing a wax candle

Entry preview:

bearing a wax candle; the word (in the form uæx biorende) glosses cerarius in the passage: Accoluthus grece, cerarius ad recitandum evangelium (cf.Acolitus is gecweden se ðe candele oððe tapor byreþ þonne mann godspell rǽt, Ælfc.

þurh-geótan

(v.)

to pour overcover by pouringto fillsaturateto fillimbueinspire

Entry preview:

Ic mid ða líffæstan ýþe ðurhgoten wæs vitali unda perfusus sum, Bd. 5, 6; S. 620, 18. to fill, saturate Ðonne se sacerd gehálgodne tapor in ðæt wæter déð, ðone wyrð ðæt wæter mid ðam hálgan gáste ðurhgoten, Wulfst. 36, 6. to fill, imbue, inspire : -

candel

Entry preview:

Acolitus is gecweden sé þe candele oððe tapor byrð, Ll. Th. ii. 348, 4. Gyf man mǽte ꝥ hé byrnende candele geseó, gód ꝥ byð, Lch. iii. 176, 12. Ontend þreó candela, and drýp ꝥ wex þriwa, 286, 6.

æx

Entry preview:

Srt. 73, 5. v. blód-, brád-, brádlást-, hand-, stán-, tapor-æx. Add

sunne

(n.)
Grammar
sunne, an (sunnu, Cd. Th. 286, 14; Sat. 352, and acc. sunne, 147, 11; Gen. 2437:
Entry preview:

See also candel, tapor. <b>I b.

Linked entries: sunna sunnu sól