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besnows

besnows is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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, […]...

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Besnows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of besnow.

Words near besnows in the dictionary

  1. Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease
  2. besnoitiosis
  3. besnow
  4. besnowed
  5. besnowing
  6. besnows
  7. besnuff
  8. beso negro
  9. besocked
  10. besognio
  11. besognios

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