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bedash, v.|bɪˈdæʃ| [f. be- 1 + dash v.] trans. a. To dash against, dash about. b. To injure or spoil by dashing (as the wind or rain dashes flowers). c. To cover with dashes of colour or adornment.
1564Golding Justine 90 (R.) Bedect with skarlet and bedashte with golde. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 164 Like Trees bedash'd with raine. 1609Holland Amm. Marcel. 196 It bedasheth on that side Cyzicum and Dindyma. 1621Quarles Esther in Div. Poems (1717) 46 His comfort is bedasht and done. 1640J. Gower Ovid's Fest. ii. 25 The battred billows all bedash the Shippe. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 131 Purple gouts bedash The guilty ground. |