Meaning of bestream | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To stream around, about, or all over; flood.
   intransitive
2. To flow in a stream; stream down.
   transitive
3. To drench; mark by streams of.
   transitive
4. To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear.
   broadly, transitive

Examples

“His eyes bestreamed with tears, his large heart quaking [...]”

“Merchant plays you with a smile⟳ beguiling, Wife beguiles you with her tears bestreaming, [...]”

“Tears bestreamed her face⟳, and the Elder of Midpoint was somewhat bemused at this reception.”

“[...] and, from using only moderate exercise, I am so bestreamed with perspiration as to make⟳ it necessary to change⟳ my clothes four or five times in the course of the day: [...]”

“[...] it is easy to conceive her terror when she saw⟳ my friend in this predicament, lying in my arms, and both of us bestreamed with blood.”

“The collars of his serge jacket were pulled up high above his ears, making a fantastic setting for his grimy, tear-bestreamed countenance, [...]”

“Will ye dwell in houses artificially adorned, not so milch for use⟳ as for delight, and shall My dwelling-place, wherein was the Holy of holies, and the Cherubim, and the table of shew-brend, be bestreamed with rains, [...]”

“I do remember⟳ a poor Negro, Under the torrid sun by parching thirst Oppress'd; with sweat-bestreamed brow he slaved, Planting of sugar-canes; [...]”

“Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]”

“They were about the business of repair⟳ so that in a way fire did remain⟳ an enemy of water, as they caulked the longboat and disappeared below deck, carrying leather-bestreamed poles of steaming pitch.”

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