Part 62 (1/2)

_To_ BELT, _v a_ To flog, to scourge, S

_To_ BELT, _v n_ To co, S

Isl _bilt-a_, _bilt-ast_, signifies, to tulas_

BELTANE, BELTEIN, _s_ The name of a sort of festival observed on the first day of May, O S; hence used to denote the term of Whitsunday

_Peblis to the Play_

This festival is chiefly celebrated by the cow-herds, who assemble by scores in the fields, to dress a dinner for thes These dishes they eat with a sort of cakes baked for the occasion, and having small lumps in the form of _nipples_, raised all over the surface The cake see to some Deity in the days of Druidism--In Ireland, Beltein is celebrated on the 21st June, at the time of the solstice There, as they make fires on the tops of hills, every h the fire; as they reckon this cere year--The Gael and Ir word _Beal-tine_ or _Beil-tine_ signifies _Bel's Fire_; as composed of _Baal_ or _Belis_, one of the na fire Even in Angus a spark of fire is called a _tein_ or _teind_

BELTH, _s_

_Douglas_

This wordof waters I am inclined, however, to view it, either as equivalent to _belch_, only with a change in the tere, from A S _bilith_, Alem _bilid_, _bileth_, id

_To_ BEMANG, _v a_ To hurl, to injure; to overpower, S B

_Minstrelsy Border_

_To_ BEME, _v n_

1 To resound, to las_

2 To call forth by sound of trumpet

_Gawan and Gol_

Germ _bomm-en_, resonare; or A S _beam_, _bema_, tuba It is evident that beme is radically the same with _bommen_, because Gernifies a trumpet

BEME, _s_ A trumpet; ~Bemys~, pl