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 rob ⬩ to go secretly ⬩ stealthily ⬩ to 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
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be-swápan
to sweep ⬩ to wrap up ⬩ cover 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
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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 cover ⬩ to bestow ⬩ assign
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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
Similar entry: be-rénian
be-rénian
to ornament ⬩ adorn
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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
Considerate ⬩ thoughtful ⬩ circumspect
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Considerate, thoughtful, circumspect On gleáw-scipe swíþe bescáwede and forewittige, Lch. iii. 436, II
be-scerian
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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
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be-scylian
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