Word.ws English Dictionary

bislings

bislings is the obsolete form of beestings.

Meaning of beestings

Noun

beestings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.
    • [W]ith thy Sickle reap the rankeſt land: / And miniſter the Blade, vvith bounteous hand. / Nor be vvith harmful parſimony vvon / To follovv vvhat our homely Sires have done; / VVho fill'd the Pail vvith Beeſtings of the Covv: / But all her Udder to the Calf allovv.1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 104, lines...
    Synonyms:
    beest, colostrum

Questions about bislings

What is bislings the obsolete form of?
Bislings is the obsolete form of beestings.

Words near bislings in the dictionary

  1. Bisley-with-Lypiatt
  2. Bisleys
  3. Bislig
  4. bisligand
  5. bisligands
  6. bislings
  7. Bislish
  8. bislongiquinolide
  9. bism
  10. bismanol
  11. bismar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bislings (page history and authors); beestings (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bislings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bislings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.