The Anglish Moot
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Old English sp English
Ad n Fire, blazing pile, funeral pyre
Adamant n Applied in antiquity to white sapphire, magnet (perhaps via confusion with Latin adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond ). The word was in Old English as aðamans "a very hard stone."
Adark n Darkness, obscurity.
Adaw vb To waken or awake. 2. to wake up, rouse from dream, sleep or swoon.
Adawe vb Put to death, put out of existence, put out of life, kill, execute
Adawe phr "To Bring Adawe" - to kill.
Adawe phr "To Do Adawe" - to kill.
Adawn adv Dawning.
Aday adv By day, daily.
Adays adv A-days. 2. by days.
Adays phr "Now a days" - at present.
Adblast vb To blow upon, to inflate, inspire.
Adder n A serpent; the old serpent, the devil, viper, adder. 2. a small often venomous snake, esp. the common viper, Vipera berus, the only poisonous snake in Britain. 3. a dragon; a supposed serpent with wings
Adder's bolt n Dragon-fly; Adder's fly
Adder-bred adj Engendered of the serpent (The Devil); adder-bred.
Adder-deaf adj Deaf as an adder or stone deaf; adder-death.
Adder-hate adj Virulent, deadly hate; adder-hate.
Adder-like adj Resembling or like an adder.
Adder-stone n Adder stones were believed to have magical powers such as protection against eye diseases or evil charms, preventing nightmares, curing whooping cough, the ability to see through fairy or witch disguises and traps if looked at through the middle of the stone, and recovery from snakebite. According to popular conception, a true adder stone will float in water.
Adder-tongue n Any of several plants, esp. a fern of the genus Ophioglossum.
Adderwort n Adderweed, snakeweed, persicaria or polgunium bistorta. 2. bistort; adderwort.
Addle n Stinking liquid, mire, filth, mire, putridness. 2. urine. 3. disease, as in 'fall-addle' 4. the dry lees of wine.
Addle vb To make addle, confuse. 2. to make abortive. 3. to grow addle(lit. & fig.)
Addle adj Stinking, fetid, miry, putrid, stagnant.
Addle-bearing adj Infectious, as in a disease.
Addle-brain n One whose brain or intellect is muddled, stupid fool. 2. addle-head.
Addled adj Confused, fig. empty, idle, muddled, unsound.
Addle-egg n Rotten or putrid; producing no chicken.
Addle-headed adj Stupid, foolish, stulty. 2. fatuity.
Addle-headness n The state or condition of being stupid, foolish, addlebrained etc
Addleness n Putrefaction. 2. the quality of addled as an egg.
Addle-water n Stagnant water.
Addling n Decomposition of an egg. 2. muddling of the wits.
Adeem vb To judge; award; adeem lore: "the court"; deemship or hood: "The Institution of the Court"
Adeaden vb Kill, mortify,
Adeaf n Deafness.
Adeave vb Deafen, strike deaf.
A-deep adv Deeply.
Adew vb To bedew.
Adight vb To put in order, prepare, equip.
Adighting n Preparation, preparing
Adoom vb To adjudge.
Adown n Fig. life's latter days.
Adown adv To a lower place. 2. downwards, in a lower place, esp on earth.
Adown prp Downards upon or along
Adownright adv Downright; straight down.
Adownward n Life's latter days; dotage, old age.
Adraw vb To withdraw oneself.
Adread adj Frightened, adrad.
Adree vb Carry-on, pass life, pass, endure, bear, last, suffer (life, time etc.)
Adrench vb To give to drink. 2. to submerge, drown, to perish in water. 3. to drown oneself. 4. to go down, as a ship.
Adrigh adv At length, extent, distance. 2. at or to a distance, away from.
Adrip adv Dripping, in a dripping state.
Adrive vb To drive away, chase, pursue, follow up.
Adroff vb To drive forth, off or away
Adrop n In alchemy: lead; the philosopher's stone.
Adrough vb Dry-up, dry, become dry, wither.
Adry adv In a dry condition, thirsty.
Adumb vb To stay silent.
Adusk adv At dusk, in dusk, during dusk. 2. in gloom, gloomy, dark.
Adust adv In dusty condition. 2. affected by dust.
Adusted adj Having a dusty or dry condition.
Adustness n The state of having dust. 2. scorching heat.
Adwale n Decline, decay, decline.
Adwesch vb Extinguish, put out, quench
Adwite vb Accuse, reproach.
Adwole adv In error, erroneously, mistakenly.
Adze n A tool, like an axe with a blade set at right angles at the handle and carving inwards towards it; used for chipping and slicing away the surface of wood.
Adze vb To prepare with an adze; adzing.
Adzebill n Either of two bird species of the extinct family aptornithidae, once endemic to New Zealand.
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