释义 |
besoot, v.|bɪˈsʊt| [f. be- 6 + soot.] trans. To soil or blacken with (or as with) soot. Hence beˈsooting vbl. n.
1611Cotgr., Poislure, a smutting, smeering, besooting. 1622Mabbe Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. 12 Was it fit that hee should besoot his face with the same paintings? 1661Evelyn Misc. Writ. i. (1805) 228 This coale..flies abroad..besoots all the leaves. |