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beathing

beathing is the present participle and gerund of beath.

Meaning of beath

Verb

beath (third-person singular simple present beaths, present participle beathing, simple past and past participle beathed)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
    • And in his hand a tall young oake he bore,
      Whose knottie snags were sharpned all afore,
      And beath'd in fire for steel to be in sted1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it.

Questions about beathing

What is beathing the present participle and gerund of?
Beathing is the present participle and gerund of beath.

Words near beathing in the dictionary

  1. beaters
  2. beatest
  3. beateth
  4. beath
  5. beathed
  6. beathing
  7. beaths
  8. beati
  9. beatier
  10. beatiest
  11. beatific

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