ppl. a. Sc. [f. BE- 4 + grutten, pa. pple. of GREET v. to weep.] Marred or swollen in face with much weeping.
1805. A. Scott, Poems, 85 (Jam.). A hopeless maid of fifty years Begrutten sair, and blurr’d wi’ tears.
1820. Scott, Monast., viii. Poor things … they are sae begrutten.
