besoil, v.
(bɪˈsɔɪl)
Forms: 3–4 bisuele, -suyle, 5 beswyle, 4–6 besoyle, 7– besoil.
[f. be- 1 + soil v.]
trans. To soil, stain, sully; also fig. Hence beˈsoiled ppl. a.
| a 1300 Pains of Hell 91 in O.E. Misc. 225 And summe he sauȝ bi-suyled · as souwes..vp to þe brouwes. c 1315 Shoreham 108 Thys men by-soyled beth. c 1450 Merlin x. 165 His swerde all besoyled with blode of men and of horse. a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams ii. 164 The Remonstrance..came forth..to besoil his Majesty's reign. 1798 Southey Sonn. xii, Cobwebs and dust thy pinions white besoil. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iv, All weather-tanned, besoiled. |