bespewed
bespewed is the simple past and past participle of bespew.
Meaning of bespew
Verb
bespew (third-person singular simple present bespews, present participle bespewing, simple past and past participle bespewed)
- To stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
- In that a Snayl or Dodman, vvhich is not only not vvarm, but to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold svveatty eggs, neſted upon a cold vvet earth, beſpievving them about vvith the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty vveather, and all making vvay to a kind and timely...1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert...
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