v. [f. BE- 6 + JEWEL sb.] trans. To deck or adorn with or as with jewels; to spangle. Also fig.
1557. North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall Pr. (1582), 387 b. The gorgeous courtyer, bedeckt with gold, be buttoned, & be iewelled.
1647. R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 21. Those priests … Bejewel all their necks.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 588. Laughter so bejewels Learning.
Hence Bejewelled ppl. a.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. i. 2. The white bejewelled fingers of an English countess.
