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besnew

besnew is the alternative form of besnow.

Meaning of besnow

Verb

besnow (third-person singular simple present besnows, present participle besnowing, simple past and past participle besnowed)

  1. (transitive) To snow on; to cover with snow, or as if with snow.
  2. (transitive) To scatter like snow.
  3. (transitive) To whiten with snow, or as with snow.
    • Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, […], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin, […]...

Forms of besnew

third-person singular presentbesnews
present participlebesnewing
past participlebesnewed
pastbesnewed

Origin of besnew

From Middle English besnewen, bisnewen, from Old English *besnīwian (attested in past participle besnīwod (“besnowed”)), equivalent to be- + snew.

Questions about besnew

What is besnew the alternative form of?
Besnew is the alternative form of besnow.

Words near besnew in the dictionary

  1. besmuts
  2. besmutted
  3. besmutting
  4. Besnaga
  5. Besnagar
  6. besnew
  7. besnewed
  8. besnewing
  9. besnews
  10. Besnier
  11. Besnier-Boeck disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: besnew (page history and authors); besnow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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