beswathe

发音

/bɪˈsweɪð/

词形变化

beswathes 三单 beswathing beswathing 现在分词 beswathed 过去式 beswathed 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).

    苏格兰 过时

    A truth beswathed by the cover of lies.

    The night beswathed the sloomy holt with a pall of darkness.

    He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.

    For a swollen soreː at starting one shall cure with onlayings, that is, external applications, and salves; the salve shall be of barley groats sodden in ley, and cluvers sharn wrought with honey, and then let one lay the salve on a hot cloth, or on a skin, or on paper, beswathe with that, the swelling soon becometh nesh and bursteth within.

词源

From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equivalent to be- + swathe (“to becover”).

来源：wiktionary