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beaths

beaths is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 beaths

What is beaths the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Beaths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beath.

Words near beaths in the dictionary

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

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