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ÆCER, æcyr, es; m. I. a field, land, what is sown, sown land; ager, seges :-- For ðam is se æcer geháten Acheldemah propter hoc vocatus est ager ille Haceldama, Mt. Bos. 27, 8. Hér ys seó bót, hú ðú meaht ðíne æceras betan here is the remedy, how thou mayest improve thy fields, Lchdm. i. 398, 1. Of ðæm æcere from the field, Bt. Met. Fox 12, 3; Met. 12, 2. Æcera þúsend a thousand fields, 14, 10; Met. 14, 5. II. a definite quantity of land which, in A. Sax. times, a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an ACRE, that is 4840 square yards; jugeri spatium, jugerum, a jugo quod tantum fere spatii uno jugo boum arari posset: also ager - Ger. acker an acre :-- Æ-acute;lce dæg ic sceal erian fulne æcer oððe máre omni die debeo arare integrum jugerum [MS. agrum]
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Babilón,
e;
f:
Babilónie,
Babilónige,
an;
f:
Babilón,
Babylón,
es;
f.
[v.
wim-man,
es;
f.]
Babylon;
Bab&y-short;l
n,
nis;
f.
This
celebrated
city
of
antiquity,
in
Mesopotamia,
was
built
on
both
banks
of
the
Euphrates.
Its
foundation
by
Nimrod
is
mentioned
immediately
after
the
Deluge,
Gen.
10,
9,
10:
11,
9
:--
Nimrod
[MS.
Membrað],
se
ent,
ongan
rest
timbrian
Babilónia;
and
Ninus,
se
cyning
æfter
him,
and
Sameramis,
his
cwén,
hí
ge-endade
æfter
him,
on
middeweardum
hire
ríce.
Seó
burh
wæs
getimbred
on
fildum
lande,
and
on
swíðe
emnum.
And
heó
wæs
swíðe
fæger
on
to
lócianne,
and
heó
is
swíðe
rihte
feówerscýte.
And
ðæs
wealles
mycelnyss
and
fæstnyss,
is
ungelýfedlíc
to
secgenne:
ðæt
he
is
l
elna
brád,
and
ii
hund
elna
heáh,
and
his
ymbgang
is
hund
seofantig
míla,
and
seofeþan
dl
ánre
míle
...
Seó
ylce
burh
Babylónia,
seó
ðe
mst
wæs,
and
rest
ealra
burga,
seó
is
nú
læst
and
wéstast
Nimrod,
the
giant,
first
began
to
build
Babylon;
and,
after
him,
king
Ninus,
and
then
Semiramis,
his
queen,
finished
it
in
the
middle
of
her
reign.
The
city
was
built
on
open
and
very
level
land.
It
was
very
fair
to
look
upon,
and
it
is
quite
a
true
square.
The
greatness
and
firmness
of
the
wall,
when
stated,
is
hardly
to
be
believed.
It
is
fifty
ells
broad,
and
two
hundred
ells
high,
and
its
circumference
is
seventy
miles,
and
the
seventh
part
of
a
mile
...
This
very
city
of
the
Babylonians,
which
was
the
greatest
and
first
of
all
cities,
is
now
the
least
and
most
desolate,
Ors.
2,
4;
Bos.
44,
17-31.
Babilón
wæs
mrost
burga
Babylon
was
the
greatest
of
cities,
Cd.
209;
Th.
259,
19;
Dan.
694.
Babilóne
weard
the
guardian
of
Babylon,
177;
Th.
222,
14;
Dan.
104:
178;
Th.
223,
9;
Dan.
117.
Þurh
Babilónian
burh
through
the
city
of
Babylon,
Ors.
2,
4;
Bos.
44,
11.
Babilónes
brego
the
ruler
of
Babylon,
Cd.
174;
Th.
218,
30;
Dan.
47.
Se
wæs
Babylónes
brego
he
was
the
ruler
of
Babylon,
79;
Th.
98,
20;
Gen.
1633.
Ofer
flódas
Babilónes
super
flumina
Babylonis,
Ps.
Surt.
136,
1:
Ps.
Spl.
136,
1.
Dóhtor
Babylónes
earm
filia
Babylonis
misera,
Ps.
Surt.
136,
8:
Ps.
Spl.
136,
11.
In
Babilóne
in
Babylon,
Cd.
82;
Th.
102,
28;
Gen.
1707.
On
ðære
þeóde,
ðe
swá
hátte
bresne
Babilónige
in
the
country,
that
was
so
called
powerful
Babylon,
180;
Th.
226,
18;
Dan.
173.
[Heb.
HEBREW
b
b
l
the
city
of
Belus:
Grk.
GREEK,
GREEK;
f:
Lat.
Bab&y-short;ln,
nis;
f.]
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yard
graves,
which
arc
probably
copied
from
them.
After
the.
burial,
a
low
circular
mound
was
raised
over
the
grave.
From
their
contents
we
learn
that
the
body
of
the
deceased
was
buried
in
the
full
dress
worn
when
living,
--
the
men
with
their
arms
and
military
equipments,
--
the
women
with
their
personal
ornaments
and
jewelry.
The
body
was
generally
laid
on
its
back,
on
the
floor
of
the
grave;
but
in
the
wealthier
classes,
it
was
frequently
inclosed
in
a
wooden
coffin,
for
in
A.
D.
679,
it
is
said
--
Æðeldryþ
on
treówene
þruh
wæs
bebyriged
Ætheldrith
was
buried
in
a
wooden
coffin,
Bd.
4,
19;
S.
588,
2l;
or
in
the
Latin
of
Bede
--
Ædilthryd
ligneo
in
locello
sepulta,
S.
163,
15.
3.
the
belief
in
a
future
life
is
shewn
by
the
care
with
which
the
relatives
and
friends
of
better
condition,
placed
in
the
grave
of
the
dead
objects
which
it
was
supposed
would
be
necessary
or
useful
in
the
next
world:
even
mere
personal
ornaments,
or
articles
to
which
the
deceased
had
been
attached,
or
which
can
only
have
been
placed
there
as
tokens
of
affectionate
remembrance.
Evidence
is
also
found
of
the
sentiments
of
tenderness
which
followed
them
to
their
last
resting-place.
It
was
believed
that
the
dead
were
exposed
to
evil
spirits,
for
amulets
are
usually
found
interred
with
them,
--
especially
beads
of
amber,
which
were
thought
to
be
protective
against
such
influences.
The
frequent
occurrence,
among
the
earth
in
the
grave,
of
bones
of
animals,
which
were
commonly
eaten
by
the
Anglo-Saxons,
would
seem
to
shew
that
there
were
both
sacrifices
and
feasting
at
the
burial.
Human
bones
have
been
found
in
such
a
position
as
to
justify
a
supposition,
that
a
slave
had
been
slain
and
thrown
into
the
grave,
perhaps
in
the
belief
that
he
would
continue
to
serve
his
master
in
the
spiritual
world.
4.
in
the
districts
which
were
occupied
by
the
Angles
in
Britain,
and
Old
Saxons
on
the
continent,
GREEK,
cremation
or
the
burning
of
the
bodies
before
burial,
appears
to
have
been
almost
universal,
among
rude
nations,
from
the
age
of
Homer
to
that
of
Alfred.
The
interment,
therefore,
consists
of
an
urn
filled
with
the
burnt
bones.
It
has
been
supposed
that
cremation
was
originally
the
mode
of
burial
in
use
among
the
Angles;
and
that
the
Saxons
and
Jutes
buried
the
body
entire,
or
that
they
had
adopted
this
mode
of
burial
when
they
came
into
Britain.
See
Kemble
in
the
Archæolgical
Journal,
No.
48.
It
is
recorded
of
the
Esthonians
and
Old
Saxons,
who
were
a
very
warlike
and
powerful
people,
once
occupying
the
whole
north-west
corner
of
Germany,
--
And
ðæt
is
mid
Éstum
þeáw,
ðæt
ðr
sceal
lces
geþeódes
man
beón
forbærned;
and
gyf
ðár
man
án
bán
findeþ
unforbærned,
hí
hit
sceolon
miclum
gebétan
it
is
also
a
custom
with
the
Esthonians,
that
there
men
of
every
tribe
must
be
burned;
and
if
any
one
find
a
single
bone
unburnt,
they
shall
make
a
great
atonement,
Ors.
1.
1;
Bos.
23,
3-5.
It
is
certain
that
in
Beowulf,
which
is
supposed
to
be
an
Old
Norse
poem,
the
body
of
the
hero
is
described
as
being
burnt
:--
Hit
s-liðend
syððan
hátan
Biówulfes
biorh
sea-farers
may
afterwards
call
it
Beowulf's
mound
[barrow],
Beo.
Th.
5604-5606;
B.
2806,
2807.
Him
ðá
gegiredon
Geáta
leóde
ád
unwáclícne,
helm-behongen,
hilde
bordum,
and
beorhtum
byrnum
the
people
of
the
Goths
then
raised
for
him
a
mighty
funeral
pile,
hung
with
helmets,
shields,
and
bright
breast-plates,
6265-6271;
B.
3137-3140.
Ongunnon
ðá
bl-fýra
mst
wígend
weccan:
wudu-réc
astáh
sweart
of
Swió-þole
then
the
warriors
began
to
kindle
the
greatest
of
bale-fires:
the
wood-smoke
ascended
black
from
the
Swedish
pine,
6277-6281;
B.
3143-3145.
Hí
on
beorg
dydon
beágas
and
siglu,
eall
swylce
hyrsta
on
the
mound
they
placed
rings
and
jewels,
also
ornaments,
6307-6309;
B.
3164,
3165.
Ðá
ymbe
hlw
ridon
æðelingas
.
.
.
cyring
mnan,
word-gyd
wrecan
then
nobles
rode
round
the
mound.
.
.
their
king
bewail,
a
verbal
lay
recite,
6319-6325;
B.
3170-3173.
Swá
begnomodon
Geáta
leóde
thus
the
people
of
the
Goths
deplored,
6338,
6339;
B.
3179.
5.
it
is
probable
that
down
to
a
very
late
period
the
people
adhered
to
many
of
their
ancient
burial
customs.
Charlemagne,
so
late
as
the
year
789,
ordered
his
Christian
Saxon
subjects
to
bury
their
dead
in
the
Christian
cemeteries,
and
not
in
the
tumuli
of
the
pagans,
in
these
words,
--
Jubemus
ut
corpora
Christianorum
Saxonum
ad
cœmeteria
ecclesiæ
deferantur,
et
non
ad
tumulos
paganorum,
Capit.
Carl.
Mag.
Walter,
tom.
ii.
p.
107.
In
England,
the
ordinary
converts
appear
to
have
been
drawn
reluctantly
from
the
burial
places
of
their
forefathers
by
the
establishment
of
Christian
cemeteries
attached
to
the
churches,
and
even
there
they
seem
long
to
have
continued
many
of
their
old
rites.
A
few
of
these
ceremonies
are
mentioned
in
the
Anglo-Saxon
ecclesiastical
laws
and
constitutions
relating
to
funerals.
6.
it
appears
from
a
regulation,
which,
though
only
preserved
in
the
laws
of
Henry
I,
evidently
belonged
to
the
Anglo-Saxon
period,
that
as
soon
as
any
person
was
dead,
the
body
was
laid
out,
with
the
feet
to
the
east
and
the
head
to
the
west.
This
law
enjoins
any
one
who,
either
in
revenging
a
feud
or
defending
himself,
should
kill
a
man,
not
to
take
anything
belonging
to
him,
whether
his
horse,
or
his
helmet,
or
his
sword,
or
any
money
he
may
have,
but
to
lay
out
his
body
in
the
manner
usually
observed
with
the
dead,
the
head
to
the
west
and
the
feet
to
the
east,
upon
his
shield,
if
he
have
one;
and
to
fix
his
lance,
and
place
his
arms
round,
and
attach
his
horse
by
the
reins;
and
to
go
to
the
nearest
town
and
give
information
to
the
first
person
he
meets;
the
Latin
of
the
law
is,
--
'Si
quis
in
vindictam
vel
in
se
defendendo
occidat
aliquem,
nihil
sibi
de
mortui
rebus
aliquis
usurpet,
non
equum,
non
galeam,
vel
gladium,
vel
pecuniam
prorsus
aliquam;
sed
ipsum
corpus
solito
defunctorum
more
componat,
caput
ad
occidens,
pedes
ad
oriens
versum,
super
clipeum,
si
habeat;
et
lanceam
suatn
figat,
et
arma
circummittat,
et
equum
adregniet;
et
adeat
proxtmam
villam,
et
eni
prius
obviaverit
denunciet,'
L.
H.
83,
§
6;
Th.
i.
591.
7.
during
the
time
that
the
dead
body
remained
unburied,
the
relations
and
friends
assembled
to
watch
or
wake
over
it
[this
watching
or
waking
is
mentioned
under
the
word
líc
a
body,
see
líc
II],
and
this
proceeding
was
evidently
accompanied
with
feasting
and
drinking
carried
to
a
very
great
excess.
So
late
as
the
end
of
the
tenth
century,
archbishop
Ælfric
addressed
the
following
injunction
to
his
clergy
:--
Ge
ne
scylan
fægnigan
forþ-farenra
manna,
ne
ðæt
líc
gesécan,
búton
eów
mann
laðige
ðr-to:
ðænne
ge
ðr-to
gelaðode
sýn,
ðonne
forbeóde
ge
ða
hðenan
sangas
ðæra
lwedra
manna,
and
heora
hlúdan
cheahchetunga;
ne
ge
sylfe
ne
eton,
ne
ne
drincon
ðr
ðæt
líc
inne
líþ,
ðe-læs
ðe
ge
syndon
efen-lce
ðæs
hðenscypes
ðe
hý
ðr
begáþ
ye
shall
not
rejoice
on
account
of
men
deceased,
nor
attend
on
the
corpse,
unless
ye
be
thereto
invited:
when
ye
are
thereto
invited,
then
forbid
ye
the
heathen
songs
of
the
laymen,
and
their
loud
cachinations;
nor
eat
ye,
nor
drink,
where
the
corpse
lieth
therein,
lest
ye
be
imitators
of
the
heathenism
which
they
there
commit,
L.
Ælf.
C.
35;
Th.
ii.
356,
23-358,
5.
The
clergy
gave
little
attention
to
these
injunctions,
for
they
are
warned
against
being
'hunters
of
funerals,'
and
Ælfric
tells
us
how
some
priests
'Fægniaþ
ðonne
men
forþfaraþ,
and
unbedene
gaderiaþ
hí
to
ðam
líce,
swá
swá
grdige
ræmmas,
ðár
ðár
hí
hold
geseóþ;
ac
heom
gebíraþ
mid
rihte
to
bestandenne
ða
men,
ðe
híraþ
into
heora
mynstre;
and
ne
sceal
nán
faran
on
ððres
folgoþ
to
nánum
líce
búton
he
gebeden
sý
rejoice
when
men
depart
hence,
and
unbidden
gather
about
the
corpse,
Kite
greedy
ravens,
wherever
they
see
a
dead
carcase;
whereas
it
properly
becomes
them
to
bury
those
men,
who
belong
to
their
minster;
and
no
one
ought
to
go
in
another's
following
to
any
corpse
unless
he
be
invited,'
L.
Ælf.
P.
49;
Th.
ii.
386,
2-6.
8.
we
have
no
reason
for
supposing
that
people
who
were
not
rich
were
buried
in
coffins,
but
the
body,
having
been
wrapped
up
in
its
winding-sheet,
appears
to
have
been
merely
laid
in
the
grave,
and
then
covered
with
earth.
The
first
coffins
used
by
the
converted
Anglo-Saxons
were
undoubtedly
of
wood
[vide
2],
and
it
was
the
ecclesiastics
who
introduced
the
stone
sarcophagi
for
eminent
personages
of
their
own
order.
Sebbi,
king
of
the
East-Saxons,
was
buried
in
a
coffin
of
stone
:--
Gearwodan
hí
his
líchoman
to
bebyrigeanne
on
stnenre
þruh
cujus
[Sebbi]
corpori
tumulando
præparaverant
sarcofagum
lapideum,
Bd.
4,
11;
S.
580,
4.
9.
at
every
funeral
a
payment,
called
a
soul-sceat
[v.
sáwel-sceát],
was
made
to
the
church
where
the
interment
took
place,
and
a
legacy
was
also
expected.
A
mancus
of
gold,
or
even
a
much
higher
sum,
was
usually
paid
in
the
case
of
a
king
or
bishop,
or
of
a
person
of
high
rank.
10.
the
graves
were
no
doubt
arranged
in
rows
and
covered
with
small
mounds,
as
in
the
older
pagan
cemeteries,
except
that
the
mounds
were
elongated
instead
of
being
circular,
and
had
head-stones.
They
seem,
at
an
early
period,
to
have
been
laid
north
and
south,
like
many
of
those
in
the
pagan
cemeteries,
and
not
east
and
west,
as
was
the
position
of
the
bodies
of
the
nuns
of
Hartlepool,
buried
towards
the
end
of
the
seventh
century,
which
were
uncovered
about
thirty
years
ago.
Small
flat
stones,
the
largest
less
than
a
foot
square,
had
been
laid
over
the
graves
at
Hartlepool,
each
bearing
a
cross,
and
the
name
of
the
person
it
commemorated;
some
engraved
in
Anglo-Saxon
runes,
and
some
in
the
Roman
letters
of
the
seventh
century,
for
to
the
latter
end
of
that
period
they
evidently
belonged.
v.
Thrupp's
Anglo-Saxon
Home,
8vo.
1860,
pp.
397-405.
A
very
valuable
paper
by
George
Rolleston,
Esq.
M.D.
F.R.S.
On
the
modes
of
sepulture
in
early
Anglo-Saxon
times
in
this
country,
reprinted
from
the
Translations
of
the
International
Congress
of
Prehistoric
Archæeology,
Third
Session:
Douglas's
Nenia
Britannica:
Faussett's
Inventorium
Sepulchrale:
Akerman's
Remains
of
Pagan
Saxondom:
Wylie's
Fairford
Graves:
Braybrooke's
Saxon
Obsequies:
and
Mr.
C.
Roach
Smith's
Collectanea
Antíqua.
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feoðer-scéte
four-cornered,
square;
quadrang
lus,
quadrtus,
Som.
Ben.
Lye.
v.
feówer-scýte.
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feówer-scýte,
fyðer-scýte,
fiðer-scýte,
-scíte,
feðer-scíte,
-scitte,
-scette;
adj.
[sceát,
a
corner]
Four-cornered,
quadrangular,
square;
quadranglus,
quadrtus
:--
Seó
burh
is
feówerscýte
the
city
is
quadrangular,
Ors.
2,
4;
Bos.
44,
21.
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fiðer-scýte,
-scíte;
adj.
Four-cornered,
quadrangular,
square;
quadranglus,
quadrtus
:--
Fiðerscýte
setel
siliquastrum
vel
cathedra
quadrta,
Ælfc.
Gl.
116;
Som.
80,
66;
Wrt.
Voc.
61,
44.
Seó
cyrce
wæs
eal
of
fiðerscítum
marmstánum
geworht
the
church
was
built
all
of
quadrangular
marble
stones,
Homl.
Th.
ii.
496,
35.
v.
feówer-scýte.
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rihte-bred, es; n. An instrument for measuring, a square :-- Rihte-bred norma, Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 20 : 114, 83 : linca, 54, 16.
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spitel a kind of spade, a spud, a spittle ['spittle a spade, used for light digging, which is spittling. The square board, with a short flat handle, used in putting cakes into an oven, is a baking-spittle,' Mid-York. Gl. 'Spittle a spade with a curved edge, used for grip-digging.' Holderness Gl. See also E. D. S. Pub. Gl. B, 2, 12, and Halliwell's Dict. In A. R. 384, 18, where one MS. has spade, another has spitelstaf.] v. hand-, wád-spitel, and spittan.
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toft.
A
word
apparently
of
Scandinavian
origin,
Icel.
topt,
tuft
a
piece
of
ground,
messuage,
homestead;
a
place
marked
out
for
a
house
or
building;
in
the
special
later
Icelandic
sense
a
square
piece
of
ground
with
walls
but
without
roof:
Dan.
toft
an
enclosed
home-field.
It
does
not
occur
often
in
the
earliest
English,
but
it
is
found
as
the
second
part
of
many
place-names
m
districts
which
were
affected
by
the
Danes,
v.
Taylor's
Names
and
Places.
In
the
Prompt.
Parv,
toft
renders
campus;
in
Piers
Plowman
it
means
an
elevated
piece
of
ground
:
I
seign
a
toure
on
a
toft,
Prol.
14;
while
later,
according
to
Kenuett,
it
is'
a
field
where
a
house
or
building
once
stood.'
In
the
following
passages
it
may
mean
the
enclosed
ground
in
which
the
house
stood
:--
Healf
ðæt
land
æt
Súðhám,
innur
and
úttur,
on
tofte
and
on
crofte,
Cod.
Dip.
Kmbl.
iii.
317,
7.
Nfre
myntan
ne
plot
ne
plóh,
ne
turf
ne
toft,
L.
O.
13;
Th.
i.
184,
7
;
Lchdm.
iii.
286,
23.
[Ic
an]
intó
ðe
túnkirke
on
Mardingford
.
v.
-acres
and
áne
toft
and
.ii.
acres
médwe
.
.
.
And
míne
landseðlen
here
toftes
tó
ówen
aihte,
Cod.
Dip.
Kmbl.
iv.
282,
26-29.
Alle
míne
men
fré,
and
ilk
habbe
his
toft
and
his
metecfi
and
his
metecú.
And
ic
an
þe
préstes
toft
into
þe
kirke
fre
.
.
.
And
ic
an
Léfquéne
fítténe
acres
and
an
toft
.
.
.
And
Alfwold
habbe,
mid
tón
þe
hé
hér
hauede,
.xvi.
acres
mid
tofte
mid
alle.
Chart.
Th.
580,
6-27.
v.
Grmm.
R.
A.
539.
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efnettan; p. te. I. to make even, square, adjust:--Emnettan quadrare, An. Ox. 2, 311. II. to be equal, imitate:--Ic mésan mæg
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