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be-standan

to surround

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Add: to surround Ðá hǽþenan hine bestódon, Hml. S. 28, 104, to attend the dead, perform funeral rites for Heó forðférde and Abraham hig bestód þá ealdan wísan mortua est, venitgue Abraham, ut plangeret et fleret eam, Gen. 23, 2. ) þá wíf behwurfon hire

be-stelan

to robto go secretlystealthilyto steal

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Dele translation of passage from Chronicle, and add: to rob Móde bestolene, Rä. 12, 6. Similar entries v.bi-stelan in Dict. to go secretly, stealthily, to steal, with reflexive pronoun Hé árás, and bestæl hine tó him and forcearf his mentles ǽnne læppan

be-strídan

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Æfter ðisum wordum hé his hors bestrád, Hml. Th. ii. 136, 3. Add

be-styrian

(v.)
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be-súþan

Similar entry: súþ

be-swápan

to sweepto wrap upcover up

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Substitute: to sweep; fig. to sweep into the mind, inspire with a resolution (cf. on-swápan under swápan, II in Dict.) Gif hwylc sý ꝥ Rǽdwolde on mód beswápe, ꝥ hé þé náwiht lá þes ne dó si qui sit, qui Redualdo suadeat, ut nec ipse tibi aliquid male

be-swemman

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To wash an animal by sending it into the water þeáh swín beswemde weorðen, þonne sleáð hí eft on ðá solu and bewealwiað hí þǽron (sus lota reversa in volutabro luti). Add:

be-sylian

(v.)
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Hé on synnum hine sylfne besyleð, Wlfst. 78, 16 note. Ic mé sylfe on þám adale forligeres besylede, Hml. S. 236, 343. Hér líð se ealdorman (Holafernes) mid his blóde besyled, Hml. A. 113, 369. Hú oft his sweord wire besyled on unscyldigum blóde quoties

be-teón

to coverto bestowassign

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I. and II. (v. teón to draw). Add: to cover: Swilce hi heora fét mid deádra nýtena fellum beteón, Hml. Th. ii. 534, 3. Mid pælle betogen. Chr. 1075 ; P. 209, 31. to bestow, assign Eád. werd geaf Ulfe ꝥ ꝥríce, and hit yfele beteáh, Chr. 1049; P. 171,

be-þeccan

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Ðú biðeces tegis, Ps. Srt. 103, 3. Beþeacþ con-tegit, beþeaht contecta, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 7, 8. Beþea[h]t contecta, 17, 71. Feld mid feó oferbrǽded and beþeaht, Bl. H. 199, 3. Ic sæt innan bearwe mid helme beþeht arboris umbriferae sub tegmine sedi,

be-regnian

(v.)

Similar entry: be-rénian

be-rénian

(v.)

to ornamentadorn

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to ornament, adorn: — Bóc mid sylure berénod, and iii. róde mid sylure berénode, C. D. vi. 101, 24. Add:

be-sárgung

compassion

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compassion Sý þé árfæst ofer ús besárgung (compassio). Hy. S. 126, 24. Ne bið nán besárgung ðǽra mánfulra yrmðe, Hml. Th. i. 334, 10. Add:

be-sáwan

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Ðá leahtras þe deófol besǽwð on ús (cf. O. E. Homl. i. 107, 17), Hml. S. 16, 376. Sǽd on eorðan besáwen, Hml. Th. i. 184, 34. Add

be-sceáwod

(adj.)
Grammar
be-sceáwod, adj.

Consideratethoughtfulcircumspect

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Considerate, thoughtful, circumspect On gleáw-scipe swíþe bescáwede and forewittige, Lch. iii. 436, II

be-scerian

(v.)
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To deprive a person (acc.) of something (gen., dat. (inst.) or prep.) Hé méde hyne bescyrað (privat), Scint. 123, 16. Tó hwon bescyredest þú þé twyfealdre bletsunga?, Bl. H. 49, 35. Hwá bescirede mé mínes hihtes?, Hml. S. 33, 96. Bescyrede fraudaret,

be-scítan

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For Cot. 189 substitute Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 71, and add:

be-screádian

(v.)
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be-scylian

(v.)

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be-sewen

Similar entry: be-seón