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单词 beest
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beestn.

Brit. /biːst/, /ˈbiːəst/, U.S. /bist/, /ˈbiəst/
Forms: early Old English beoth (transmission error), early Old English beust, Old English beost, Middle English best, 1500s– beest, 1800s base (English regional (Somerset)), 1800s biest, 1800s bish (English regional (Surrey)), 1800s– beast; also Scottish 1700s– biest, 1800s beist.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with West Frisian bjist , North Frisian bjārst , bjüst , Middle Dutch biest (Dutch biest ), Old Saxon biost (Middle Low German bēst ), Old High German biost , later also bist , biest (Middle High German biest , German Biest ), all in the same sense; further etymology unknown. Compare beestings n.
The thick, protein-rich milk produced by a cow or other female mammal in the first hours after giving birth; colostrum; = beestings n. 1. Also beest milk.
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beesteOE
beestingsOE
colostrum1577
fore-milk1904
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 35/1 Colostrum beost.
OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 95 Colostrum, i. lac nouum, beost uel obestum.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 15v Colustrum, best.
a1567 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 35/1 Beost. Beest, the first milke that the cowe giveth after she hath calved.
1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 24 The head o't [sc. the ale] was as yallow as biest milk.
1771 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (ed. 2) 219 To make a Beest Custard. Take a pint of beest, set it over the fire, with a little cinnamon, or three bay leaves.
1823 Adventures Ship-boy iii. 76 We had beest-milk and bread for supper, with a glass or two of brandy-wine after it.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) at Beast Beast milk is highly valued for making puddings, &c., and is frequently sent by farmers' wives as a present to friends who do not keep cows.
1927 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Lucky Bag 2 But the lift is yalla as biest milk.
1999 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (rev. ed.) 5/1 Beest, first milk drawn from newly-calved cow. When boiled it resembles newly made cheese.
2014 @cowdow 11 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Sept. 2020) Had family and neighbours that keep sheep come looking for a bit of spare cow beest milk from time to time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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