Bile-hwít
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - bile-hwít
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- 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.