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_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._
BELYVE, BELIFF, BELIUE, BELIFE, _adv._
1. Immediately, quickly.
_Douglas._
2. By and by, S.
_Barbour._
This seems to be the only modern sense of the term in S.
3. At length.
_Douglas._
4. It is used in a singular sense, S. B. _Litle belive_, or _bilive_, a small remainder.
_Popular Ball._
Chaucer _belive_, _blive_, quickly; Gower, _blyve_, id. Hickes mentions Franc. _belibe_, as signifying protinus, confestim; and Junius refers to Norm. Sax. _bilive_. This is certainly the same word; from Alem. and Franc. _belib-an_, manere; A. S. _belif-an_, id.
_To_ BELY, _v. a._ To besiege.
_Spotswood._
TO BELL THE CAT, to contend, with one, especially, of superior rank or power; to withstand him, either by words or actions; to use strong measures, without regard to consequences, S.
_G.o.dscroft._
Fr. _Mettre la campane au chat_, "to begin a quarrel, to raise a brabble; we say also, in the same sense, to hang the bell about the cat's neck." Cotgr.
_To_ BELLER, _v. n._ To bubble up.
_Bp. Galloway._
Isl. _belg-ia_, inflare buccas.
BELL-PENNY, _s._ Money laid up, for paying the expence of one's funeral; from the ancient use of the pa.s.sing-bell. This word is still used in Aberbrothick.
BELL-KITE, _s._ The bald Coot.
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