v. Obs. Also 3 by-. [f. BE- + LAVE v.] trans. To lave about, wash all over; to lave its banks as a river.
a. 1300. O. E. Misc., 140. Þu stode Naked and bylaued myd blode.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. (1641), 174/1. Me in thy Bloud belaue. Ibid. (1608), 1002. The happy plains great Phasis streams belaue.
