A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of Students

by J. R. Clark Hall

[ hancrēdtīd] (o¹) f. time of cock-crow, WW 413³⁵.

[ hand] (o) f. (gds. handa) ‘hand,’ Jn, VPs, WW; AO, CP, Æ. brād h. palm. on h. gān to yield. on h. syllan to give a pledge: side (in defining position), Æ. swīðre, winstre h. right, left, hand. on gehwæðere h. on both sides: power, control, possession, charge, Ps, RB. on h. āgiefan, tō handa lǣtan to hand over (to). on handa sellan promise, bargain. tō handa healdan hold (land) of another. on handa settan entrust, commit: agency, Ps, VPs: person regarded as holder or receiver of something.

[ handæx] f. ‘dextralis,’ a kind of axe, WW 221²².

[ handbæftian] (ea², a³) to lament, NG.

[ handbana] † m. slayer by hand, B.

[ handbell] f. ‘hand-bell,’ Ct.

[ handbōc] f. ‘handbook,’ manual, LL, WW.

handbona = [handbana]

[ handbred] n. palm of the hand, breadth of the hand, ÆL.

[ handclāð] n. towel, Æ. [‘handcloth’]