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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