† beˈsweat, pa. pple. Obs. exc. arch.
Also 5 beswette.
[f. be- 7 + sweat.]
Covered with sweat. (Revived by William Morris.)
| c 1205 Lay. 9315 Al his burne wes bi-swæt [c 1250 bi-swat]. c 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 108 All beswette for hete. 1470–85 Malory Arthur (1816) II. 206 Her horse was all to besweat. 1574 Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 53 Your letters..come wrinckled like linnen..besweat like a doublet. 1876 Morris Sigurd iv. 316 Lo, lord, our spurs are bloody, and our brows besweat with haste. |