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beswathe en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /bɪˈsweɪð/

Etymology

From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equivalent to be- + swathe (“to becover”).

Meanings

1. (Scotland, dated) to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).
   • A truth beswathed by the cover of lies.
   • For a swollen soreː at starting one shall cure with onlayings, that is, external applications, and salves; the salve shall be of barley groats sodden in ley, and cluvers sharn wrought with honey, and then let one lay the salve on a hot cloth, or on a skin, or on paper, beswathe with that, the swelling soon becometh nesh and bursteth within. 1865, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never Before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country Before the Norman Conquest, Volume 2https://books.google.ru/books?id=KtaiSC1TJYsC&pg=PA203&dq=beswathe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiehMGDg67LAhXivXIKHQr_DtkQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=beswathe&f=false
   • He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.
   • The night beswathed the sloomy holt with a pall of darkness.

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