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Definition of Bethumb
1. v. t. To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.
Definition of Bethumb
1. Verb. (transitive) To take hold of or mark with the thumbs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bethumb
1. to mark with one's thumb [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bethumb
Literary usage of Bethumb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... and which they will never be able to read, to those classic poems, of which
they have been the mont destructive enemies, by bethumb- ing and ..."
2. Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England by William Carew Hazlitt (1866)
"... The stones did so bethumb hur bones, that down hur fell at last. When hur was
down, mark what befell: her hostis and her son Came running, ..."
3. Horace's Life and Character: An Epitome of His Satires and Epistles by Horace (1877)
"That, though your vogue may last in Rome a while, 10 Yet, when bethumb'd and
soil'd by vulgar hands, You will be eaten up by moth and worm, Or parcel goods ..."
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