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bisnings

bisnings 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 bisnings

What is bisnings the obsolete form of?
Bisnings is the obsolete form of beestings.

Words near bisnings in the dictionary

  1. bisn't
  2. bisnafide
  3. bisnaga
  4. Bisnagar
  5. bisnagas
  6. bisnings
  7. bisnorlignan
  8. bisnorlignans
  9. BISO
  10. Bisoca
  11. bisocial

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