bescrawl, v.
(bɪˈskrɔːl)
Also 7 bescraul(l.
[f. be- 1 + scrawl v.]
trans. To scrawl or scribble over, to cover with scrawling.
| 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. i. Wks. (1851) 99 These wretched projectors of ours that bescraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church. 1802 Southey Lett. (1856) I. 194 Bescrawling this paper. |
Hence beˈscrawled ppl. a.
| 1880 Mrs. Reade Brown Hand & White I. ii. 60 Freely-bescrawled sheets of foolscap. |