† beˈspawl, v. Obs.
Also 7 bespaul, bespall.
[f. be- 1 + spawl v.]
trans. To bespatter with saliva; also fig.
| 1602 B. Jonson Poetast. v. i, Bespawls The conscious time, with humours, foam, and brawls. 1641 Milton Animadv. iii. 63 This Remonstrant would invest himself conditionally with all the rheum of the town..to bespaul his brethren. 1647 R. Stapylton Juvenal 215 Whose slipping guests are ready still to fall, He doth his Spartan marble so bespall. |
Hence beˈspawled ppl. a.
| 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. ii. 33 His foame-bespawled beard. |