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mál
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mál
. II. add :-- Þ̵ sciplið gewende to Legeceastre, and ðǽr ábiden heora máles (their pay) þe Ælfgár heom behét, Chr. 1055 ; P. 186, 19. v. friþ-, wiþer-mál.
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mál
, es; n. A mole, spot, mark :-- Fúll maal on [h]rægel stigmentum, Ælfc. Gl. 28; Som. 61, 13; Wrt. Voc. 26, 12. Mál maculam, Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 9 : 92. 19. [Goth. mail spot, blemish : O. H. Ger. meil.]
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mál
, es; n. I. an action, suit, cause :-- Mál clasma (cf. clasma clam oððe wed oððe wæra. 'This barbarous word meant in medieval Latin, an action at law, for a bond or other obligation,' 21, 2), Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 42 : Hpt. Gl. 496, 4. [Icel. mál an action : O. H. Ger. mahal concio, pactio, fœdus.] II. occurring late in the chronicle and borrowed from Icelandic(?) :-- Ðǽr bær Godwine up his mál (case) (cf. Icel. bera upp mál), Chr. 1052; Erl. 187, 19.
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