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Definition of Beath

1. v. t. To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

Definition of Beath

1. Verb. (transitive dialectal) To bathe (with warm liquid); foment. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beath

1. to bathe [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: bathe

Medical Definition of Beath

1. To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. Origin: AS. Beian to foment. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beath

Literary usage of Beath

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1898)
"THE family of beath, in Scotland, has a crest, and the motto: " Fortuna virtute." The name is spelled beath, Beith, Bieth. It is a Gallic word meaning ..."

2. History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905 by Francis Byron Greene (1906)
"He also might have been a son of Samuel.1 beath. 1 WALTER beath was born in the ... The fever of emigration to America possessed Walter beath, as it did so ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1899)
"Watson defended on the ground that his indorsement on the note was obtained by false representations known to the plaintiff, beath, the payee of the note, ..."

4. History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by John M. Leighton, Joseph Swan, James Stewart (1840)
"The surface of the parish is rugged and hilly, and at its south-west extremity it rises into the beautiful hill, called the hill of beath, which affords ..."

5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"beath finally arrived with the required articles. His shaking hand had spilled half the water from the basin; his eyes gloated. He put the things down on a ..."

6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"beath v. Chapo- ton, 73 NW 806, 807, 115 Mich. 500, 69 Am. St Rep. 589. "Duress" implies a constraint which overcomes the will. Where this may be brought ..."

7. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters Association (1897)
"I should like to hear a few words from General beath, President of the United ... General RB beath— Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: This is the first ..."

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