beslean

== Old English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ slēan. Cognate with Old Frisian bislā, Old High German bislahan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beˈslæ͜ɑːn/ === Verb === beslēan to beat, strike or cut off, take away, bereave (transitive) (literal) to strike, smite. (figuratively) to strike with disease, place with violence, dash, inflict. (intransitive) to strike, give a blow, force a passage ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “besleán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.