be-east, prep., orig. advb. phr.
(biːˈiːst)
In 1 be éastan.
[OE. be éastan ‘on the east,’ (be ‘by, about,’ éastan ‘from the east,’ f. éast ‘east’); used advb., and also with following dative. In later times only in Sc.]
East of.
| 894 O.E. Chron. Of ælcre byriᵹ be eastan Pendredan . ᵹe be westan Seal wuda ᵹe be eastan. 1559–66 in Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) 78 Twoe mile be-east the said towne. 1819 Blackw. Mag. V. 637 Lodge them be-east the town. |