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Beheld vs Behelm - What's the difference?

beheld | behelm |

As verbs the difference between beheld and behelm

is that beheld is (behold) while behelm is to cover; cover over.

beheld

English

Verb

(head)
  • (behold)
    • ----

    behold

    English

    Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    behelm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover; cover over.
  • *1876 , Virgil, William Morris, Cedric Chivers, The Aeneids of Virgil :
    • And hundred-folded Briareus, and Lerna's Worm of dread Fell hissing; and Chimaera's length and fire-behelmed head, [...]
  • *1895 , Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library :
    • He went to the Thing in gold-reddened helm, and all his company was behelmed .
  • To cover as with a helm or helmet.
  • *1985 , Friedrich Schiller, Schiller Institute (Washington, D.C.), Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom :
    • Stepped forth a virgin, with behelmed head Like to a martial goddess, fair at once And dreadful to behold; [...]
  • *1998 , Margaret Bent, Andrew Wathey, Fauvel studies :
    • Now come the days for fighting to the finish, bemail thy body and behelm thy head; Rally all those that desert thee, and put away forests and dice.