[bäð], st. n., bath: acc. sg. ofer ganotes bäð, over the diver's bath (i.e. the sea), [1862].
[bärnan], w. v., to cause to burn, to burn: inf. hêt ... bânfatu bärnan, bade that the bodies be burned, [1117]; ongan ... beorht hofu bärnan, began to consume the splendid country-seats (the dragon), [2314].
for-bärnan, w. v., consume with fire: inf. hy hine ne môston ... brondefor-bärnan, they (the Danes) could not burn him (the dead Äschere) upon the funeral-pile, [2127].
[bædan] (Goth, baidjan, O.N. beðia), to incite, to encourage: pret. bædde byre geonge, encouraged the youths (at the banquet), [2019].
ge-[bædan], w. v., to press hard: pret. part. bysigum gebæded, distressed by trouble, difficulty, danger (of battle), [2581]; to drive, to send forth: stræla storm strengum gebæded, the storm of arrows sent with strength, [3118]; overcome: draca ... bealwe gebæded, the dragon ... overcome by the ills of battle, [2827].
[bæl] (O.N. bâl), st. n., fire, flames: (wyrm) mid bæle fôr, passed (through the air) with fire, [2309]; häfde landwara lîge befangan, bæle and bronde, with fire and burning, [2323].—Especially, the fire of the funeral-pile, the funeral-pile, [1110], [1117], [2127]; ær he bæl cure, ere he sought the burning (i.e. died), [2819]; hâtað ... hlæw gewyrcean ... äfter bæle, after I am burned, let a burial mound be thrown up (Beówulf's words), [2804].
[bæl-fýr], st. n., bale-fire, fire of the funeral-pile: gen. pl. bælfýra mæst, [3144].
[bæl-stede], st. m., place for the funeral-pile: dat. sg. in bæl=stede, [3098].
[bæl-wudu], st. m., wood for the funeral-pile, [3113].