beath

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bathe (with warm liquid); foment. dialectal,transitive
    — And in his hand a tall young oake he bore, Whose knottie snags were sharpned all afore, And beath'd in fire for steel to be in sted
  2. To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it. transitive

词形变化

beaths present,singular,third-person beathing participle,present beathed participle,past beathed past

词源

From Middle English bethen, from Old English beþian, beþigean, beþþan, bæþþan (“to heat, warm, foment, wash, cherish; bathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþþjan, *baþigōn, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Middle Dutch betten, bessen (“to moisten with hot water, humidify”).
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