v. [f. BE- + SCRATCH v.] trans. To cover with scratches, to scratch all over.
1555. Fardle Facions, I. vi. 98. He that hath this disease … all to beskratcheth his bodie.
1628. Wither, Brit. Rememb., VI. 312. Our pleasant Fig trees, are bescratcht and dropt.
1839. Darley, in Beaum. & Fletcher’s Wks. (1839), I. Introd. 31. Bepierced and bescratched.
