belull

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ lull.

Verb

belull (third-person singular simple present belulls, present participle belulling, simple past and past participle belulled)

1. (transitive) To lull about; lull all over; lull completely.
   • 1992, Joan Larsen Klein, Daughters, wives, and widows:

     [...] the noon with a luscious repast, the afternoon with a play or a pallet repose, the evening with a wanton consort, accoutred with a rear-banket, to belull the abused soul with the sleep of an incessant surfeit.

   • 2008, Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford, Clarel:

     But as in haven fringed with palm, Which Indian reefs embay from harm, Belulled as in the vase the wine — Red budded corals in remove, Peep coy through quietudes above; So through clear olive of the skin, [...]