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▪ I. † ˈbezzle, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 5 besil, 6 beizle, 7 beezel, bezel, bezzel, bizle, bizel, 8 bezil, bezzil, 7– bezzle.
[Late ME. besil, a. OF. besiler, besillier, beziller, to lay waste, ravage, destroy; shortened form of embesillier: see embezzle.]
General sense: To make away with wastefully.
†1. trans. To plunder, spoil; to make away with (the property of others). Obs. Cf. embezzle.
c1430Lydg. Bochas v. xvi. (1554) 132 b, That he should haue besiled the Of Chartage. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 94 Her sweet showes and faire lookes shall beizle harts. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Burn. Pest. i. iii, I have laid up a little for my younger son Michael, and thou think'st to 'bezzle that. c1612Fletcher Woman's Prize iv. i. 115/2, I must be shut up and my substance bezel'd. 1720Stow's Surv. (Strype 1754) II. vi. iii. 626/2 To suffer no manner of person to bezil or purloin..out of the said park any timber.
2. intr. To make away with a large quantity of food or especially drink; to drink to excess, to guzzle, to revel.
1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 113, I wonder how the inside of a Tauerne lookes now. Oh when shall I bizle, bizle? 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 (1619) 143 It is too much for a minister to lie bezelling in the delight of his tast. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 12 (1865) 453/1 He that will be sober when others bezzle..is branded with the name of puritan. 1721Bailey, Bezzle (q.d. to Beastle), to guzzle, tipple, or drink hard. 1875Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Beb or Bezzle, to drink.
b. trans. To make away with or consume (drink), waste or squander (one's money). Obs. or dial.
1617J. Taylor (Water P.) Trav. Wks. (1630) 78/2, 13 or 14 brewings haue beene..stayed in the Towne, as not sufficient to be beezeled in the Country. [1775Collier (Tim Bobbin) Tummus & Meary Wks. (1862) 54, I drank meh Pint o Ele..I cawd for another, on [= and] bezzilt tat too. Ibid. 55 In i'dd'n [= an ye had] bezzilt owey moor brass inney [= than ye] hadd'n. 1875Lanc. Gloss. 37 Bezzle, to waste, to squander; generally applied to drinking. ]
▪ II. † ˈbezzle, n. Obs. rare.
Also 7 bezell.
[f. prec.]
A hard drinker, a bouser.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 12/1 Foule drunken bezzle. 1597Bp. Hall Sat. v. ii, The swolne bezell at an alehouse fyre, That tonnes in gallons to his bursten paunch. |