lȳtel, adj., _small, little_: nom. sg. neut. tō lȳtel, 1749; acc. sg. f. lȳtle hwīle (_a little while_), 2031, 2098; lif-wraðe lȳtle (_little protection for his life_), 2878.--Comp. un-lȳtel. lȳt-hwōn, adv., _little = not at all_: lȳt-hwōn lōgon, 204. lȳfe, st. n., _leave, permission, (life?)_: instr. sg. þīne lȳfe (life, MS.), 2132.--Leo. Cf. O.N. leyfi, n., _leave, permission_, in Möbius' Glossary, p. 266. lȳfan, w. v., (fundamental meaning _to believe, trust_) in ā-lȳfan, _to allow, grant, entrust_: pret. sg. nǣfre ic ǣnegum men ǣr ālȳfde ... þrȳð-ærn Dena (_never before to any man have I entrusted the palace of the Danes_), 656; pret. part. (þā mē wæs) sīð ... ālȳfed inn under eorð-weall (_the way in under the wall of earth was allowed me_), 3090. ge-lȳfan, w. v., _to believe, trust_: 1) w. dat.: inf. þǣr gelȳfan sceal dryhtnes dōme sē þe hine dēað nimeð (_whomever death carrieth away, shall believe it to be the judgment of God_, i.e. in the contest between Bēowulf and Grendel), 440.--2) w. acc.: pret. sg. gēoce gelȳfde brego Beorht-Dena (_believed in, expected, help_, etc.), 609; þæt hēo on ǣnigne eorl gelȳfde fyrena frōfre (_that she at last should expect from any earl comfort, help, out of these troubles_), 628; sē þe him bealwa tō bōte gelȳfde (_who trusted in him as a help out of evils_), 910; him tō anwaldan āre gelȳfde (_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273. ā-lȳsan, w. v., _to loose, liberate_: pret. part. þā wæs of þǣm hrōran helm and byrne lungre ā-lȳsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed from him_), 1631. M maðelian, w. v. (sermocinari), _to speak, talk_: pret. sg. maðelode, 286, 348, 360, 371, 405, 456, 499, etc.; maðelade, 2426. maga, w. m., _son, male descendant, young man_: nom. sg. maga Healfdenes (Hrōðgār), 189, 1475, 2144; maga Ecgþēowes (Bēowulf), 2588: maga (Grendel), 979; se maga geonga (Wīglāf), 2676; Grendeles maga (_a relative of Grendel_), 2007; acc. sg. þone magan, 944. magan, v. with pret.-pres. form, _to be able_: pres. sg. I. III. mæg, 277, 478, 931, 943, 1485, 1734, etc.; II. meaht þū, 2048; subj. pres. mǣge, 2531, 2750; þēah ic eal mǣge (_even though I could_), 681; subj. pl. wē mǣgen, 2655; pret. sg. meahte, 542, 755, 1131, 1660, 2465, etc.; mihte, 190, 207, 462, 511, 571, 657, 1509, 2092, 2610; mehte, 1083, 1497, 1516, 1878; pl. meahton, 649, 942, 1455, 1912, 2374, 3080; mihton, 308, 313, 2684, 3164; subj. pret. sg. meahte, 243, 763, 2521; pres. sg. mæg, sometimes = licet, _may, can, will_ (fut.), 1366, 1701, 1838, 2865. mago (Goth. magu-s), st. m., _male, son_: nom. sg. mago Ecglāfes (Hunferð), 1466; mago Healfdenes (Hrōðgār), 1868, 2012. mago-dryht, st. f., _troop of young men, band of men_: nom. sg. mago-driht, 67. mago-rinc, st. m., _hero, man_ (preeminently): gen. pl. mago-rinca, hēap, 731.