- 07.082 and of the wolf-ring
This word is not found in OED.
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Wood-elf
- 08.130 Then the Wood-elves had come to him,
- 08.131 The feasting people were Wood-elves,
- 08.131 in the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered
- 08.144 for Wood-elves were not goblins,
- 09.001 Out leaped Wood-elves with their bows
- 09.011 Companies of the Wood-elves,
- 09.016 would suffer seriously if the Wood-elves claimed part of it,
- 09.018 for the Wood-elves,
- 09.025 It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy;
- 10.003 and the Wood-elves
- 10.003 and the river was guarded by the Wood-elves’ king.
- 10.009 to be taken back up the stream to the Wood-elves’ home.
- 10.018 they were friends with the Wood-elves.
- 10.025 their knives had been taken from them by the wood-elves,
- 10.033 in the Wood-elves’ realm.
- 10.036 The Wood-elves themselves began to wonder greatly
- 10.040 In the meanwhile the Wood-elves had gone back
- 12.007 or rough wood-elves’ cave.
- 18.024 to the Wood-elves’ realm
This word is not found in OED.
Wood-fire
- 01.083 probably somebody lighting a wood-fire –
- 03.024 “I can smell the wood-fires for the cooking.”
- 07.045 Though it was summer there was a wood-fire burning
This word is hyphenated in the examples in its sub-entry in OED.
“wood, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/230005. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Worm-stench
- 13.009 though the worm-stench was heavy
This word is not found in OED.
Efficiency
Once upon a time, I had a fancy to hold aside the hyphenated words and do a mini-lesson on them – there are dozens and dozens, and I believe now that the most important thing is to get the concordance functional!
Update 2015.07.10: the concordance is functional, I’m publishing conclusions on my main topics, and I had time to run a graph of hyphens!
Update 2017.09.27: I’m so pleased to say we now have a Hyphen Mini-Concordance and all of the words therein have been checked against the OED to see what those venerable editors think of the hyphen.
Yule-tide
- 18.051 Yule-tide was warm
Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.
“yule, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/232554. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Mantelpiece
- 01.068 or behind the clock on the mantelpiece,
- 02.005 you have never dusted the mantelpiece!”
- 02.007 “If you had dusted the mantelpiece,
- 16.026 under the clock on his mantelpiece
- 19.039 His sword he hung over the mantelpiece.
Maraud
- 11.013 there were fewer signs of the dragon’s marauding feet,
- 14.006 As like as not it is the marauding fire of the Dragon,
Marrow
- 12.099 in my marrow.
Marsh
- 07.100 but shrill and harsh across the marsh
- 07.130 and led to impassable marshes
- 07.151 and see the Long Marshes lying below you,
- 08.132 into the marshes at the feet of the high wooded lands.
- 09.053 Past the marsh’s waving weeds,
- 10.002 in marshes
- 10.002 and looked across the marshes to the forest.
- 10.003 The marshes
- 14.015 more than a fly from the marshes.
- 14.025 in tattered shreds over the marshes before Mirkwood.
- 18.024 they hunted into the marshes about the Forest River;
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