beslaver, v.
(bɪˈslævə(r))
[f. be- 1 + slaver v. Cf. also beslobber.]
trans.
1. To slaver upon or over, to bedrivel; to cover with anything suggesting slaver.
| 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet C iij, Giue the infant a bibbe, hee all to beslauers his mother tongue. 1602 Return fr. Parnass. i. ii. (Arb.) 14 One of your reumaticke Poets, that beslauers all the paper he comes by. 1870 Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 38 Unconscious if any reptile beslaver its base. |
2. To cover with fulsome flattery.
| 1861 Life Ld. Bacon xxii. 498 He was ready to beslaver Majesty infinitely. |
Hence beˈslavered ppl. a.
| 1598 E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 5 To thinke so well of a scald railing vaine, Which soone is vented in beslauered writs. |