59. #heil ⁊ sund#: comp. 184/279, 188/402; ‘Tel him ꝥ þou ert sund and
hale,’ CM 5112; ‘hol and isunde,’ OEM 42/186.
61. If his beak were not crooked; not ‘unzuverlässig,’ Mätzner, but as
artificers still use true, noun and verb, in various expressions, as
‘out of true,’ ‘to true up,’ &c.
62. #biforn#, in front, the upper mandible has curved over the lower, as
S. Augustine explains, iv. 1. 839: it is mostly used with verbs of
motion, as at 76/10.
64. #tilen#, procure; comp. 179/103, 182/199; ‘In swinc ðu salt tilen ði
mete,’ GE 363.
65. with any benefit to himself. Comp. ‘Mare hit hem deð to herme þenne
to gode,’ OEH i. 27/12; ‘hi þonne ne mihtan nawþer ne him sylfum, ne
þære heorde . . . nænige gode beon,’ BH 45/14. ‘Vix valet ex aliquo
sumere pauca cibo,’ T.
67. #billeð#: comp. 186/316, 334, 338; ‘ad petram elidit, immo comminuit
et conterit,’ Neckam, De Naturis Rerum, 72.
69. #wrengðe#, distortion: derivative of wrong; apparently here only:
see Archiv cxxvii. 47. Add al before forloren.