Be-sirwan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - be-sirwan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
(-si(e)rian);
- be-sirwan
- p. (e)de To ensnare, entrap, circumvent :-- Hé ofslóg and besirede his getreówne ðegn devotum militem sub studio fraudis extinxit, Past. 393, 8. Hiene Artabatus besirede and ofslóg per Artabatum circumventus occiditur, Ors. 2, 5 ; S. 84, 24. Besierede, 4, 5 ; S. 170, 2 ; 6, 32 ; S. 274, 3. Pontius hæfde þone consul besired, 3, 10; 8. 140, 22. Rómáne besierede wǽron, 3, 8; S. 120, 27. Earme men wǽron beswicene and hreówlíce besyrwde (-sirwde, ), Wlfst. 158, 12, v. be-syrwan, -serian, -syrewian, -Syrian in Dict. be-sirwan