Coða, coðe, was another main word for a disease. Hence (Dorset) a cothed sheep.
Weorc, werc (our wark), was a disease of pain or achingness, as the gout or colic.
Seoc, syc, meant any sickness in which a man sinks down on his bed or is off his legs.
Braec or breach was also given for some ailings.
To these words were set others of the parts of the body which they took, or of some other marks.
Stic-adl, stitch.
Sid-adl (side-addle), pleurisy.
Lengten-adl, lent-adl, typhus.
Hip-werc (hip-wark), sciatica.
Hrop-werc (bowel-wark, belly-wark (York)), colic.
Fylle seoc, falling sickness.
Lifer seoc, liver sickness.
Lifer-adl (Aelfric), liver-addle.
Milte-seoc (Aelfric), milt-sickness.
Lenden-wyrc (Aelfric), loin-wark.
Mete-afluing (Aelfric), atrophy.
Wylde-fyr (wildfire) (Aelfric), erysipelas.
Dissipate. Forscatter.
Distribution (of prizes). Outdealing, fordealing, outgiving:—‘Uetdieling fen da pryzen.’—Frs. (outdealing of the prizes.)
-dom (an ending). It is our word doom, from deem, and means a state or outreach of free judgment or power; as, kingdom, freedom.