[bil], st. n. sword: nom. sg. bil, [1568]; bill, [2778]; acc. sg. bil, [1558]; instr. sg. bille, [2360]; gen. sg. billes, [2061], etc.; instr. pl. billum, [40]; gen. pl. billa, [583], [1145].—Comp.: gûð-, hilde-, wîg-bil.
[bindan], st. v., to bind, to tie: pret. part. acc. sg. wudu bundenne, the bound wood, i.e. the built ship, [216]; bunden golde swurd, a sword bound with gold, i.e. either having its hilt inlaid with gold, or having gold chains upon the hilt (swords of both kinds have been found), [1901]; nom. sg. heoru bunden, [1286], has probably a similar meaning.
ge-bindan, to bind: pret. sg. þær ic fîfe geband, where I had bound five(?), [420]; pret. part. cyninges þegn word ôðer fand sôðe gebunden, the king's man found (after many had already praised Beówulf's deed) other words (also referring to Beówulf, but in connection with Sigemund) rightly bound together, i.e. in good alliterative verses, as are becoming to a gid, [872]; wundenmæl wrättum gebunden, sword bound with ornaments, i.e. inlaid, [1532]; bisgum gebunden, bound together by sorrow, [1744]; gomel gûðwîga eldo gebunden, hoary hero bound by old age (fettered, oppressed), [2112].
on-bindan, to unbind, to untie, to loose: pret. onband, [501].
ge-[bind], st. n. coll., that which binds, fetters: in comp. îs-gebind.
[bite], st. m., bite, figuratively of the cut of the sword: acc. sg. bite îrena, the swords' bite, [2260]; dat. sg. äfter billes bite, [2061].—Comp. lâð-bite.
[biter] (primary meaning that of biting), adj.: 1) sharp, cutting, cutting in: acc. sg. biter (of a short sword), [2705]; instr. sg. biteran stræle, [1747]; instr. pl. biteran bânum, with sharp teeth, [2693].—2) irritated, furious: nom. pl. bitere, [1432].
[bitre], adv., bitterly (in a moral sense), [2332].
[bî, big] (fuller form of the prep. be, which see), prep. w. dat.: 1) near, at, on, about, by (as under be, No. 1): bî sæm tweónum, in the circuit of both seas, [1957]; ârâs bî ronde, raised himself up by the shield, [2539]; bî wealle gesät, sat by the wall, [2718]. With a freer position: him big stôdan bunan and orcas, round about him, [3048].—2) to, towards (motion): hwearf þâ bî bence, turned then towards the bench, [1189]; geóng bî sesse, went to the seat, [2757].
[bîd] (see [bîdan]), st. n., tarrying hesitation: þær wearð Ongenþió on bîd wrecen, forced to tarry, [2963].