[metod], st. m. (the measuring, arranging) Creator, God: nom. sg., [110], [707], [968], [1058], [2528]; scîr metod, [980]; sôð metod, [1612]; acc. sg. metod, [180]; dat. sg. metode, [169], [1779]; gen. sg. metodes, [671].—Comp. eald-metod.
[metod-sceaft], st. f.: 1) the Creator's determination, divine purpose, fate: acc. sg. -sceaft, [1078].—2) the Creators glory: acc. sg. metod-sceaft seón (i.e. die), [1181]; dat. sg. tô metod-sceafte, [2816].
[mêce], st. m., sword: nom. sg., [1939]; acc. sg. mêce, [2048]; brâdne mêce, [2979]; gen. sg. mêces, [1766], [1813], [2615], [2940]; dat. pl. instr. mêcum, [565]; gen. pl. mêca, [2686].—Comp.: beado-, häft-, hilde-mêce.
[mêd], st. f., meed, reward: acc. sg. mêde, [2135]; dat. sg. mêde, [2147]; gen. pl. mêda, [1179].
ge-[mêde], st. n., approval, permission (Grein): acc. pl. ge-mêdu, [247].
[mêðe], adj., tired, exhausted, dejected: in comp. hyge-, sæ-mêðe.
[mêtan], w. v., to meet, find, fall in with: with acc., pret. pl. syððan Äscheres ... hafelan mêtton, [1422]; subj. pret. sg. þät he ne mêtte ... on elran man mundgripe mâran (that he never met, in any other man, with a mightier hand-grip), [752].
ge-[mêtan], with acc., the same: pret. sg. gemêtte, [758], [2786]; pl. näs þâ long tô þon, þät þâ aglæcean hy eft gemêtton (it was not long after that the warriors again met each other), [2593].
ge-[mêting], st. f., meeting, hostile coming together: nom. sg., [2002].
[meagol], adj., mighty, immense; formal, solemn: instr. pl. meaglum wordum, [1981].