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

by J. R. Clark Hall

[ orwegnes] f. state of being out of the way, WW 220³⁴.

[ orwegstīg] f. out-of-the-way track, WW.

[ orwēna] indecl. adj. (w. g.) hopeless, despairing of, Æ.

[ +orwenan] to despair, Æ.

[ or-wēne], -wēna (w. g.) hopeless, despairing of, Æ: despaired of, desperate.

[ orwēnnes] f. despair, Æ.

[ orwīge] not fighting, unwarlike, cowardly: not liable to the legal consequences (of homicide), LL 76[42,5,7].

orwīte = [orwīge]

[ orwurð] n. ignominy, CPs 82¹⁷.

[ orwyrð] (VPs), orwyrðu f. shame, dishonour: abuse.