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Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0467, entry 17
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gim. Add: I. a precious stone :-- Gim þe bi
on coches micga flestria, Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 32. Gim gemma, Kent. Gl. 597. Se giem (gim, v. l.) jacintus, Past. 85, 5. Ne mæg hit steorra ne st
n ne se steápa gim be-sw
can, Sal. 284, Is seó eággebyrd h
we gel
cast gladum gimme, þonne in goldfate smi
a orþoncum biseted weor
e
, Ph. 303. Ð
giemmas, Past. 135, 3, 4, 16. Gimmas, 7. Gimmas hæfdon bewrigene weor
l
ce wealdes treów, Kr. 16. Sum bi
searocræftig goldes and gimma, þonne him gumena weard h
te
t
m
r
um m
um r
nian, Crä. 59. H
hit gihr
nade mi
golde and mi
gimmum, Jn. p. 188, 5. W
ntreówa bl
stman beó
gimman gel
ce, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 295, 12. &I-long;s glisna
glæs-hl
ttur gimmum gel
cast, R
n. 11. Mon sceal s
can be s
waro
e and be eá
frum æþele gimmas, hw
te and reáde and h
wa gehwæs, Met. 19, 22 : Bt. 32, 3; F. 118, 17. Gymmas, Coll. M. 27, 7. II. used of the heavenly bodies :-- H
lge gimmas, sunne and m
na, Cri. 692. Swegles leóht, gimma gladost, æ
eltungla wyn the sun, Ph. 289. II a. where a person is spoken of as a sun :-- Cyning þryml
ce of his heáhsetle sc
ne
, wlitig wuldres gim, Ph. 516. v. god-, heáfod-, searo-, sine-, tungol-, wæl-, wuldor-gim.
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0476, entry 2
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glídan. Add: I. to pass from one place to another by a smooth and continuous movement. (1) of motion on or through a liquid:--Hornfisc glád geond gársecg, An. 371. (2) of motion through the air:--Þonne glád þæt deófol út mid his leásunge swá swá smýc æt his eágdura, Shrn. 52, 32. (2 a) of the motion of the heavenly bodies:--Se steorra cymeð eástan úp
rror sunnan, and eft æfter sunnan on setl glídeð, Met. 29, 27. Se steorra glád him beforan (cf. se steorra him beforan férde stella antecedebat eos, Mt. 2, 9), Hml. Th. i. 78, 23. On ðám earde ðe se tungel ofer glád, 106, 28. Hwonne úp cyme eástan glídan swegles leóma, Ph. 102. II. to pass from one state to another, slip, fall:--Oft ðæt hefige mód glít niðor and niðor stæpm
lum, oð hit mid ealle áfielð, Past. 279, 2. III. of movement along a surface:--Þonne hié mon slóg oþþe sceát, þonne glád hit on þ
m scillum, swelce hit w
re sméðe ísen, Ors. 4, 6; S. 174, 7. His sceadu geh
lde ealle þá untruman þe heó ofer glád, Hml. S. 10, 20. Besweþe
hió áweg ne glíde, Lch. ii. 250, 19. IV. to pass away:--Þæt þá sáule wunde . . . glídan móte, Ps. C. 145. V. of revolution:--Is efneáðe úp and ofdúne tó feallanne foldan þisse, þám anlícost þe on
ge bið gioleca on middan, glídeð hwæðre
g ymbútan, Met. 20, 170. [O. Frs. glída: O. Sax. glídan: O. H. Ger. glítan.] v. æt-glídan.
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0508, entry 39
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hár. Add: I. grey-haired with age, old :-- Wæs fród cyning, hár hilderinc, on hreón móde, B. 1307: By. 169: Chr. 937; P. 108, 20. Ic (a plough) geonge swá mé wísað hár holtes feónd (the grey-haired ploughman ?, the enemy of the holt, because the wood has to be cleared away from the land which is to be brought under cultivation), Rä. 22, 3. Gamele ne móston háre heaðorincas hilde onþeón, Exod. 241. ¶ used substantively, a grey-haired person :-- Hí háres hyrste Higeláce b
ron, B. 2988. Tunge þínre hárra lingua canum (as if canorum?) tuorum, Ps. L. 67, 24. II. grey, (1) of an animal's coat :-- Wulf, hár h
ðstapa, Vy. 13. (2) of bright metal :-- Háre byrnan (cf. On him (Beowulf) byrne (ísernbyrne, 671) scán, B. 405.), Vald. 2, 17 : B. 2153. (3) of a bright star : -- Hárwengnes canities, se hára steorra caniss (as if
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0612, entry 5
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leóht-berende. Add :-- Steorra leóhtberende lucifer, Ps. Lamb. 109, 3.
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0692, entry 41
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s
-steorra, an; m. A star which guides mariners at sea; stella maris, a title given to the Virgin Mary, from the erroneous belief that it expressed the etymological meaning of the Hebrew name Miriam, Mary :-- Nú is hyre nama gereht . . . s
steorra . . . S
steorra heó is gecweden, for ðan þe se steorra on niht gecýþeð scyplíðendum mannum hwyder bið eást and west, hwyder súð and norð, Hml. A. 117, 6-19. [Nomen est Maria quod interpretatur stella maris . . .
is on ure ledene sesteorre, O. E. Hml. 141, 24-26: 161, 4. Sæsteorrne, Orm. 2132.]
Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0701, entry 13
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seld-cúþ. Add: I. strange :-- Uppon S
e Michaeles mæssan ætýwde án selcúð steorra on
fen scýnende and sóna tó setle gangende, Chr. 1097; P. 233, 27. II. various, different, not of one kind :-- Hé forgeaf
lcum ð
ra wyrhtena seltcúð gereord, and heora nán ne cúðe óðres spr
ce tócnáwan (cf. confundamus linguam eorum, Gen. 11, 7), Hml. Th. i. 318, 19. Selcúþe reáf varias uestes, Coll. M. 27, 9. Hé geswác ðæs dihtes ðæs deóplican cræftes, swá dæt hé selcúðe (different from those already created) syððan scyppan nolde, ac ðá ylcan geedníwian, Hex. 20, 15. Ðá reahte hé mislicu and selcúð þing (multa ac varia), Solil. H. 3, 2. [v. N. E. D. selcouth.]
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