Beath

//biːð//

Definitions

1
To bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
And in his hand a tall young oake he bore, Whose knottie snags were sharpned all afore, And beath'd in fire for steel to be in sted
2
To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it.

Word Origin

From Middle English bethen, from Old English beþian, beþigean, beþþan, bæþþan (“to heat, warm, foment, wash, cherish; bathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþþjan, *baþigōn, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰ...

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