A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of Students

by J. R. Clark Hall

bell = [belle]

[ bellan³] to bellow, bark, grunt, roar, Rd. [‘bell’]

[ belle] f. ‘bell,’ KC; Æ, CP.

[ bellhūs] n. ‘bell-house,’ belfry, LL, WW.

[ belltācen] n. indication (sounding of the hour) by a bell, HL 11⁶⁵.

[ belltīd] f. a canonical hour marked by the ringing of a bell. (cp. belltācen)

[ belōcian] ‘intendere,’ RPs 44⁵.

belone = [belene]

[ belt] m. ‘belt,’ girdle, WW.

[ belūcan²] to lock, shut up, close, surround, enclose, embody, Bl, CP, Mt, VPs; AO: stop, impede, block up, choke, Æ: preserve, protect: shut out, exclude, Æ. [‘belouke’]