1. spryttinga: "vegetation"; related closely to the modern word "sprouting"
2. buton: "lacking"; related to the modern "but" in the sense of "except"
3. þeostrum: "darkness"
4. aðenede: "overspread"
5. betæhte: "assigned"
6. ylcan: "same"
7. mislicum: "many"
8. hiwum: "kinds"; exactly the same word as modern "hue," which has become severely restricted in meaning to denote "kinds of color" in particular
9. nytenu: "animals"; its meaning over the years became restricted first to "cattle" and then to "calves" and today is only found in the phrase "neat's foot oil"--the oil from the hoof of a calf

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