Obs. rare. In 3 bilong. [Early ME., answering in form and meaning to OS. bilang, MDu. belangh, belanc adj.; f. bi-, BE- pref. + LONG a.2, app. shortened form of OE. ʓe-lang, ME. y-long, i-long, ALONG a.1 As in other words (cf. BELIEF), the ʓe- may have been dropped already in OE.; Ormin has ‘lang o Crisstes helpe.’ The primary notion was apparently ‘equally long, corresponding in length,’ whence ‘running alongside of, parallel to, going along with, accompanying as a property or attribute’; cf. BELONG v., also BELENGE a.] Pertaining, belonging, or appropriate; ‘along of.’ Const. on.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2058. Tel me ðin drem, mi broðer her … ðe reching wurð on god bi-long.
