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Definition of Beray
1. v. t. To make foul; to soil; to defile.
Definition of Beray
1. Verb. To make foul; befoul; soil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beray
1. to befoul [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: befoul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beray
Literary usage of Beray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Herefordshire and Some of the by George Cornewall Lewis (1839)
"35. Compare Spelman's Glossary in Bota, p. 86. t To BEWRAY. " beray ...
French Dictionary, to beray is explained salir, souiller; ..."
2. An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the by Philological Society (Great Britain), Philological Society (Great Britain (1861)
"H. 1603 beraid (beray) 2 1270 1582 berain, va 1, ... W. 1570 1650 beray, bespatter
2 berber, barberry, H. 1725 berberry 3 ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"We need not discuss the disagreement among the Doctors as to where Jonson has
given the ' poets a Pill' and where Shakespeare made, him "beray his credit. ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1881)
"... is a pestilent fellow, he brought Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our
fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit. ..."
5. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"... the earth he sway'd, And overlaid seven acres land: his hair was all beray'df
a Sod—"boiled away. ... < beray'd, or rather bewray'd—that is. "besmeared. ..."
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