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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 stn ne se steápa gim be-swcan, Sal. 284, Is seó eággebyrd hwe gelcast gladum gimme, þonne in goldfate smia orþoncum biseted weore, Ph. 303. Ð giemmas, Past. 135, 3, 4, 16. Gimmas, 7. Gimmas hæfdon bewrigene weorlce wealdes treów, Kr. 16. Sum bi searocræftig goldes and gimma, þonne him gumena weard hte t mrum mum rnian, Crä. 59. H hit gihrnade mi golde and mi gimmum, Jn. p. 188, 5. Wntreówa blstman beó gimman gelce, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 295, 12. &I-long;s glisna glæs-hlttur gimmum gelcast, Rn. 11. Mon sceal scan be swaroe and be frum æþele gimmas, hwte and reáde and hwa gehwæs, Met. 19, 22 : Bt. 32, 3; F. 118, 17. Gymmas, Coll. M. 27, 7. II. used of the heavenly bodies :-- Hlge gimmas, sunne and mna, Cri. 692. Swegles leóht, gimma gladost, æeltungla wyn the sun, Ph. 289. II a. where a person is spoken of as a sun :-- Cyning þrymlce of his heáhsetle scne, 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 stæpmlum, hit mid ealle áfielð, Past. 279, 2. III. of movement along a surface:--Þonne hié mon slóg oþþe sceát, þonne glád hit on þm scillum, swelce hit wre sméðe ísen, Ors. 4, 6; S. 174, 7. His sceadu gehlde 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 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 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 :-- háres hyrste Higeláce bron, 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 hðstapa, 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 :-- is hyre nama gereht . . . ssteorra . . . Ssteorra 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 Se Michaeles mæssan ætýwde án selcúð steorra on fen scýnende and sóna setle gangende, Chr. 1097; P. 233, 27. II. various, different, not of one kind :-- forgeaf lcum ðra wyrhtena seltcúð gereord, and heora nán ne cúðe óðres sprce tócnáwan (cf. confundamus linguam eorum, Gen. 11, 7), Hml. Th. i. 318, 19. Selcúþe reáf varias uestes, Coll. M. 27, 9. geswác ðæs dihtes ðæs deóplican cræftes, swá dæt selcúðe (different from those already created) syððan scyppan nolde, ac ðá ylcan geedníwian, Hex. 20, 15. Ðá reahte mislicu and selcúð þing (multa ac varia), Solil. H. 3, 2. [v. N. E. D. selcouth.]



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