begrime, v.
(bɪˈgraɪm)
[f. be- 6 + grime.]
trans. To blacken or soil with grime, or dirt which sinks into the surface, and discolours it.
| a 1553 Udall Roister D. (Arb.) 48 All to begrime you with worshyp. 1603 Holland Plutarch 215 (R.) Enjoyning men to begrime and bewray themselves with dirt. 1853 Sir J. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. i. §21 (1873) 15 In your eyes, in your mouth, begriming every pore. |
Hence beˈgrimed ppl. a. beˈgrimer n.
| 1604 Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 387 My name that was as fresh As Dians Visage, is now begrim'd and blacke As mine own face. 1611 Cotgr., Patrouilleur, a smeecher, begrimer, besmearer. 1865 Sat. Rev. 8 July 48/1 The blackened and begrimed people who had worked so hard. |