† umbelay, v. Obs.
Also 4 vmbelai, vmbilay; vmbe-, vmbi-, vmbyley.
[See umbe- and belay v. (and cf. umblay s.v. umb-, and umlay v.). So MDu. omme-, ombeleggen.]
trans. To beset, surround, encompass.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 1336 Þis tre, þat i of for-wit said, A neddur hit hade al vmbilaid. 13.. Ibid. 22069 (Gött.), Als it in vr leuedi light,—Þe hali-gast wid goddes might,—And vmbilaid hir wid his leme To brede þat blisful barnteme. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8278 Totenesse was vmbyleyd Wyþ schipes. 1338 ― Chron. (1810) 297 Þat was his folie, so long in his bed gan ligge, Untille þe Waleis partie had vmbilaid þe brigge. |