Lexicographical Neighbors of Beleed
Literary usage of Beleed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"... but it is so commonly applied to real or pretended idiots, that some wit has
given it a new interpretation, as equivalent to " beleed," which means " a ..."
2. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1871)
"... as equivalent to " beleed," which means " a fool" or " simpleton ;" remarking
that these two terms are equivalent both in sense and in the numerical ..."
3. Apologia pro vita sua: Being a History of His Religious Opinionsby John Henry Newman by John Henry Newman (1904)
":'.h the hope of Riving some idta of the ti/i. retten from the beleed City.
To SB, from PHILIP. Crov 35. 6J. net. CONTESTS :—Why Philip writes these letters ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... in a position in which the wind has little influence ; ' beleed and calmed ',
Othello, i. 1. 30. beleek, belike, probably. Peele, Arr. of Paris, iii. ..."
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