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mǽþ
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mǽþ
, mowing. Add :-- Se Godes þeówa cwæð: 'Árís and ber þis gréne híg þám horsum . . . nú is lytel tó láfe þysses mǽþes (cf. hé máweþ heig on þissere dene, 2), and swá þis gedón byþ, ic gá æfter þá' leva fenum viride, porta pabulum jumentis; ecce ego, quia parum superest, opere expleto te subsequor, Gr. D. 36, 31. v. mǽþ-méd ; máwan.
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mǽþ
, e; f. (but ofer ðínne mǽð, Prov. Kmbl. 27.) I. measure, degree, proportion :-- Gilde be ðære giftan mǽþe reddet pecuniam juxta modum dotis, Ex. 22, 17: L. Ecg. P. i. 11; Th. ii. 176, 28. Be ðære synne mǽþe secundum peccati gradum, tit. i; Th. ii. 170, 5: Ors. 1, 12; Swt. 56, 4. Be dǽde mǽþe, L. C. E. 5; Th. i. 364, 1.
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mǽþ
, es; n. (?) Math in after-math, mowing, hay-harvest :-- Freóh ǽlces weoruldcundes þeówetes búton þreom þingum án is circsceat and ðæt hé mid eallum cræfte twuga on geáre [wyrce ?] ǽne tó mǽþe and óðre síþe tó rípe free from every secular service except three things; one is church scot, and (the other two) that he [work] with all his might twice a-year, once at hay-harvest, the other time at corn-harvest, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 400, 30. [O. H. Ger. mád: M. H.
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