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术语汇编
这份术语汇编收集了在我看来不易理解的词(包括词形、含义与现代用法不同的词)。这份列表的内容源于外来的规范,显然不可能是系统性的。
an if
bent open place covered with grass
bid offered
chase hunting ground
clomb old past tense ofclimb
corse corpse
croft small plot of land
drouth dryness
entreat treat
envermined full of noxious creatures.这个词似乎没有其他记录。
fell hide
flittermouse bat
forhungered starved
frith wood,woodland
frore very cold
glamoury magic,enchantment
haggard (of hills)wild
haply perhaps
hem and hedge enclose and fence off
howe burial mound,barrow
inane empty
lave wash
leeches physicians
let hinder:their going let‘hinder their passing’
like please(indoth it like thee?)
limber supple
march borderland
neb beak,bill
nesh soft,tender
opes opens
parlous dangerous
pled old past tense ofplead
quook old past tense ofquake
rede counsel
rove past tense ofrive‘rend,tear apart,cleave’
ruel-bone ivory
runagate deserter,renegade
scullion kitchen drudge
shores supports
sigaldry sorcery
slot track of an animal
spoor the same asslot
sprite spirit
sylphine of the nature of a sylph(a spirit inhabiting the air).这个形容词没有记录。
swath (space left after passage of a mower)track,trace
tarn a small mountain lake
thews bodily strength
thrall a slave,one who is in bondage(thraldom)
trammelled hampered,impeded
unkempt uncombed
viol a stringed instrument played with a bow
weft woven fabric
weird fate
weregild (Old English)the price set upon a man in accordance with his rank
whin gorse
wolfhame wolfskin
woof woven fabric
would wished