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Definition of Bedye
1. v. t. To dye or stain.
Definition of Bedye
1. Verb. (transitive) To dye or stain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedye
1. to dye [v BEDIDE or BEDYDE or BEDYED, BEDYEING, BEDYES] - See also: dye
Medical Definition of Bedye
1. To dye or stain. "Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed." (Spenser) Origin: Bedyed; Bedyeing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedye
Literary usage of Bedye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To bedye, (be-di') ». a. To stain. BEE-GARDEN, (bee'-gar-dn) n. ». A place to
set hives of bees in. BEE-HIVE, (bee'-hive) n. ». ..."
2. The Lay Folks Mass Book; Or, The Manner of Hearing Mass: With Rubrics and by Dan Jeremy, John Lydgate (1879)
"... stonde up and bydde your bedye,"(l) and then towards the end, after prayers
in Latin, the priest proceeds: "Ye ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"Then if thine eye bedye this sacred um, To adorn his tomb.—Epitaph, 1633.
I-'.ach drop a pearl shall turn. E. dial, to deg, to moisten.—Hal. ..."
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