Bestream

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To stream around, about, or all over; flood. intransitive

    "His eyes bestreamed with tears, his large heart quaking [...]"

  2. 2
    To flow in a stream; stream down. transitive

    "Merchant plays you with a smile beguiling, Wife beguiles you with her tears bestreaming, [...]"

  3. 3
    To drench; mark by streams of. transitive

    "[...] and, from using only moderate exercise, I am so bestreamed with perspiration as to make it necessary to change my clothes four or five times in the course of the day: [...]"

  4. 4
    To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear. broadly, transitive

    "Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]"

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"His eyes bestreamed with tears, his large heart quaking [...]"

Etymology

From be- + stream. Cognate with German beströmen (“to pervade”).

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