belee

t. [Eng. be; lee.] Naut.: To place on the lee, to place to leeward, to shelter. ( Shakesp .: Othello , i. 1.) [BELIEF.] Hope. * bě-lēfe, bě-lēve, s. ( Scotch .) "Ne neuer chyld cummyn of Troyane blude, In sic belefe and glorie and grete gude Sal ray is his for bear is Italian is." Douglas: Virgil, 197, 36. "They become desparit of ony beleve ." Bellenden: T. Liv ., p. 74. (Jamie son.) * be-left, pa. par. [BELEIF (2).] *be-leif (1), *be-lewle (pa. par. * belewyt ), v.t. & i. [A.S. belæfan = to leave, relinquish.] Α. Trans.: Τo deliver up. "Unto thy parent is hand is and sepultre I the beleif to be enter it, quod he." Doug.: Virgil, 349, 48. B. In trans.: To remain. ( Skeat .) "That he belewyt belewyt of of hys hys duelling." Barbour, xiii. 544, MS . (Jamie son.)