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hamele porticulo. v. hamer ; II.

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hamer. Add: I. a hammer used for beating, breaking, &c., a workman's hammer :-- Hamer malleus, Wrt. Voc. i. 287, 1. Slecg, hamur, ii. 57, 78. Beátendes hameres stíþnes tundentis mallei durities, An. Ox. 481. Mín (a key's) heáfod is homere geþuren, sworfen feóle, Rä. 87, 1. Þeáh ðra manna ghwylc hæfde nne hamor on handa, and þeáh man . . . mid þám hameron beóte on þæt ísene þell . . . ne áwacode hé nfre for eallum þissum, tó ðám wérig hé wre, Wlfst. 147, 3-8. Hameras sleánde mallei percutientes, Scint. 171, 14. Wé þæt deór uneáþe mid ísernum hamerum and slecgum (malleis) ofbeóton, Nar. 21, 5. II. a hammer used by the master of the rowers to give signals for the stroke; portisculus, porticulus :-- Hamere portisculo (crepante naucleri portisculo, Ald. 3, 3), Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 12. Hamure porticulo, An. Ox. 7, 13 : 8, 7. Hamele, 1, 33 : 3, 22. (All these are glosses to the same passage.) v. clod-, dúþ-(dýþ-), hand-hamer.

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helm. Add: I. a covering for the head. (l) a helmet :-- Helm galea, Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 10: cassium, ii. 103, 38: 14, 5: 129, 24. Þr wæs helm monig, eald and ómig, B. 2762. Helm sceal cénum, On. Ex. 205. Wæs of þm hróran helm and byrne álýsed, B. 1629. Wæs his helm þyrl, Fin. 45. Helmes cassidis, Wrt. Voc. ii 103, 34: 13, 61: 129, 25 : An. Ox. 2, 417. Ymb þæs helmes hróf heáfodbeorge wírum bewunden wál an útan heóld, B 1032. Ecg sceal wið helme hilde gebídan, Gn. C. 16. Sweord swín oter helme ecgum dyhtig andweard scireð, B. 1286. Seó ecg helm oft gescær, 1526: 2973. Þonne rond and hand on herefelda helm ealgodon, An. 10. Módcræftig smið gewyrced tó wera hilde helm oððe hupseax, Crii. 64. Helmas cassida, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, Fóron tó gefeohte hæleð under helmum, Jud. 203. Hæleð . . . helmum þeahte, Gen. 1089. Ád helmum behong. n, hilde-bordum beorhtum byrnum, B. 3139. ¶ epithets of the helmet are brún, Jud. 318 : brún-fáh, B. 2615 : entisc, B. 2979: gold-fáh, B. 2811: heard, B. 2255 : heaþo-steáp, B. 1245 : 2153 : hefig, Hml. Th. ii. 502. 12 : hwít, B. 1448 : scír, Jud. 193. (l a) where the helm has a technical significance :-- Eorles heregeata syndon . . . feówer helmas and feówer byrnan . . . Cyninges þegenes . . . helm mid byrnan, Ll. Th. i. 414, 4-11. Of viii hídum helm and byrnan, Chr. 1008; P. 138, 6. Þeán ceorlisc geþeó hé hæbbe helm and byrnan . . . gif hé land nafað hé bið ceorl swá þeáh, Ll. Th. i. 188, 8. (2) a crown, diadem :-- Sitt þonne swegles brytta on heáhsetle helme beweorðod (gewurþod, Wlfst. 137, 17), Dóm. L. 118. Cóm se deófol mid purpuran gescrýd and mid helme (mid gyldenum cynehelme, Hml. S. 31, 752) geglengd, Hml. Th. ii. 512, 24. Mid helme (cynehelme, Hml. S. 31, 764), 30. Aman geldde Mardocheum, mid helme (cf. cynehelm diadema 232) gescrýdne, Hml. A. 99, 242. Ðurh ðone ðyrnenan helm on ðone Hlend beslagen, Hml. Th. ii. 254, 10. II. the top, crown of a thing, mostly of the foliage of a tree or plant. v. helm-bre, helmiht :-- Geþúf fícbeám vel helm frondea ficus, Wrt. Voc ii. 151, 16. Coppe helmes (sub) cono (sublimi) verticis. l. capitis (arboris), An. Ox. 1564 Mid wexendum helme florenti fronde, 1132. Ic sæt innan bearwe min helme beþeht, Dóm. L. 2. Helm conum, -Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 24. Geþúfe beámas vel helmas frondea robora, Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 13. Huni-brum clfran helmum melligeris caltarum frondibus, An. Ox. 95: 924. III. cover, concealment :-- Nó heó on helm losað, ne on foldan fæðm, ne on fyrgenholt, ne on gyfenes grund, gá þr heó wille she will not escape into concealment, neither into earth's bosom, nor into the mountain wood, nor into ocean's depths, go where she will, B. 1392. III a. a covering :-- Helme porticulo (cf. porticulus minor porticus seu aedicula quae stpulcris mortuorum superstruebatur, Migne. But porticulus in the passage glossed, Aid. 3, 3, is the hammer used in giving signals to rowers), An Ox. 33. Helme tiro (the line to which the gloss belongs is : Sed tyro infracta tectus testudine Christi, Ald. 210, 12 ; helme seems to belong to testudine], Wrt. Voc. ii. 97, 7. v. cyne-, ísern-, leþer-, wuldor-helm.

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