| 释义 |
† beˈtoil, v. Obs.
Also 7 betoyl.
[f. be- + toil n. and v.]
trans. To worry or exercise with toil. Hence beˈtoiled ppl. a.
1622Rowlands Good Newes & Bad 36 This is better farre then scurvy wooing, Betoyl'd about a wife, and cannot get her. a1683Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 243 Why, then, do we any longer perplex and betoil ourselves in macerating studies? 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. iv. iii. Poor Lackalls, all betoiled, besoiled, encrusted into dim defacement. |