[a]bealu], adj., deadly, dangerous, bad: instr. sg. hyne sâr hafað befongen balwon bendum, pain has entwined him in deadly bands, [978].
[bealo-cwealm], st. m., violent death, death by the sword(?), [2266].
[bealo-hycgende], pres. part., thinking of death, meditating destruction: gen. pl. æghwäðrum bealo-hycgendra, [2566].
[bealo-hydig], adj., thinking of death, meditating destruction: of Grendel, [724].
[bealo-nîð], st. m., (zeal for destruction), deadly enmity: nom. sg., [2405]; destructive struggle: acc. sg. bebeorh þe þone bealonîð, beware of destructive striving, [1759]; death-bringing rage: nom. sg. him on breóstum bealo-nîð weóll, in his breast raged deadly fury (of the dragon's poison), [2715].
[bearhtm] (see [beorht]): 1) st. m., splendor, brightness, clearness: nom. sg. eágena bearhtm, [1767].—2) sound, tone: acc. sg. bearhtm ongeâton, gûðhorn galan, they heard the sound, (heard) the battle-horn sound, [1432].
[bearm], m., gremium, sinus, lap, bosom: nom. sg. foldan bearm, [1138]; acc. sg. on bearm scipes, [35], [897]; on bearm nacan, [214]; him on bearm hladan bunan and discas, [2776].—2) figuratively, possession, property, because things bestowed were placed in the lap of the receiver ([1145] and [2195], on bearm licgan, âlecgan); dat. sg. him tô bearme cwom mâððumfät mære, came into his possession, [2405].
[bearn], st. n., 1) child, son: nom. sg. bearn Healfdenes, [469], etc.; Ecglâfes bearn, [499], etc.; dat. sg. bearne, [2371]; nom. pl. bearn, [59]; dat. pl. bearnum, [1075].—2) in a broader sense, scion, offspring, descendant: nom. sg. Ongenþeów's bearn, of his grandson, [2388]; nom. pl. yldo. bearn, [70]; gumena bearn, children of men, [879]; häleða bearn, [1190]; äðelinga bearn, [3172]; acc. pl. ofer ylda bearn, [606]; dat. pl. ylda bearnum, [150]; gen. pl. niðða bearna, [1006].—Comp.: brôðor-, dryht-bearn.
[bearn-gebyrdu], f., birth, birth of a son: gen. sg. þät hyre ealdmetod êste wære bearn-gebyrdo, has been gracious through the birth of such a son (i.e. as Beówulf), [947].
[bearu], st. m., (the bearer, hence properly only the fruit-tree, especially the oak and the beech), tree, collectively forest: nom. pl. hrîmge bearwas, rime-covered or ice-clad, [1364].