Part 60 (2/2)

_Z Boyd_

BELYVE, BELIFF, BELIUE, BELIFE, _adv_

1 Immediately, quickly

_Douglas_

2 By and by, S

_Barbour_

This seems to be the only modern sense of the term in S

3 At length

_Douglas_

4 It is used in a singular sense, S B _Litle belive_, or _bilive_, a small remainder

_Popular Ball_

Chaucer _belive_, _blive_, quickly; Gower, _blyve_, id Hickesprotinus, confestim; and Junius refers to Norm Sax _bilive_ This is certainly the same word; from Alem and Franc _belib-an_, manere; A S _belif-an_, id

_To_ BELY, _v a_ To besiege

_Spotswood_

TO BELL THE CAT, to contend, with one, especially, of superior rank or power; to withstand hi ard to consequences, S

_Godscroft_

Fr _Mettre la cain a quarrel, to raise a brabble; we say also, in the sar

_To_ BELLER, _v n_ To bubble up

_Bp Galloway_

Isl _belg-ia_, inflare buccas

BELL-PENNY, _s_ Money laid up, for paying the expence of one's funeral; fro-bell This word is still used in Aberbrothick

BELL-KITE, _s_ The bald Coot