Denn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - denn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

denn
Add: I. a den, lair of a beast:--Haran den lepusculi cubile, Kent. Gl. 1107. Denn lustra (ferarum), An. Ox. 26, 47. II. a woodland pasture for swine:--Hí geúðen Ælfwolde ánes dennes wið his lícwyrðan scætte, ꝥ is .MCCCC. and L denarios. Ðis dæn is genamod Hýringdænn, C. D. B. iii. 490, 11-13. Þis synt þá denbǽra on wealda . . . be súþan eá stánihtan hyrst . . . be norþan eá . . . ceorla den, C. D. ii. 216, 6. Belimpað tó ðám lande fíf denn, án on útwalda, brocces hám ðæs dennes nama, and þæs óðres dennes nama sængethryc . . . þonne twá denn an glæppan felda, iii. 227, 31-4. Ðis synt ðá den ðe ðǽrtó gebyrigeað, v. 313, 14. ¶ the word occurs in many local names:--Adiectis quattuor denberis . . . Heáhden . . . helman hyrst, i. 317, 20. Hec sunt pascua porcorum quot nostra lingua denbéra nominamus, lamburnanden, orricesden, teligden, stánehtandenn, ii. 65, 5-8: 75, 26-8: 228, 2-3. Adiectis denberis in commune saltu, otanhyrst . . . et haeseldaen, i. 248, 18. Aet Haeseldenne, 216, 28. Inn on ðæt eádenn; of ðám eádenne, iii. 385, 4. v. dænn in Dict.; den-bǽre, stów. denn

Related words: þeóf-denn.

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