Bile-hwít

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bile-hwít

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: bilewit. bile-hwit

Definitions

1 bile-hwít

adj. [bile the beak, hwít white, referring to the beaks of young birds, then to their nature, Junius] Simple, sincere, honest, without fraud or deceit, meek, mild, gentle; simplex, mitis :-- Arnwi munec wæs swíðe gód man and swíðe bilehwít monk Arnwi was a very good man and very meek, Chr. 1041; Erl. 169, 12.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛁᛚᛖ-ᚻᚹᛁᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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