Part 60 (1/2)
_Wyntown._
This, however, may mean, bellowed, roared, from A. S. _bell-an_, Su. G. _bal-a_, id. Chaucer uses _belle_ in the same sense.
BELE, _s._ A fire, a blaze.
V. ~Bail~.
_To_ BELEIF, _v. a._ To leave; pret. _beleft_.
A. S. _be_ and _leof-an_, linquere.
_Douglas._
_To_ BELEIF, BELEWE, _v. a._ To deliver up.
_Douglas._
It is also used as a _v. n._ with the prep. _of_.
_Barbour._
A. S. _belaew-an_, tradere; _belaewed_, traditus.
BELEFE, _s._ Hope.
_Douglas._
_To_ BELENE, _v. n._ To tarry; or perhaps, to recline, to rest.
_Sir Gawan._
A. S. _bilen-ed_, inhabited.
V. ~Leind~.
Or allied to Germ. _len-en_, rec.u.mbere.
BELEWYT, _imperf. v._ Delivered up.
V. ~Beleif~, _v._ 2.
BELGHE, _s._ Eructation, E. _belch_.
_Z. Boyd._