Meaning of beswathe | Babel Free

Definitions

to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).

Scotland, dated

Examples

“A truth beswathed by the cover of lies.”

“The night beswathed the sloomy holt with a pall of darkness.”

“He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.”

“For a swollen soreː at starting one shall cure with onlayings, that is, external applications, and salves; the salve shall be of barley groats sodden in ley, and cluvers sharn wrought with honey, and then let one lay the salve on a hot cloth, or on a skin, or on paper, beswathe with that, the swelling soon becometh nesh and bursteth within.”

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