Behelm vs Behell - What's the difference?

behelm | behell |

As verbs the difference between behelm and behell

is that behelm is to cover; cover over while behell is to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

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.

behell

English

Verb

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

Did behell and rack him ? Hewyt.

*1936 , Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry :

Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling " injections.

*2006 , Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist :

I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!