v.; also 7 bescraul(l. [f. BE- 1 + SCRAWL v.] trans. To scrawl or scribble over, to cover with scrawling.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., I. Wks. (1851), 99. These wretched projectors of ours that bescraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.
1802. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 194. Bescrawling this paper.
Hence Bescrawled ppl. a.
1880. Mrs. C. Reade, Brown Hand & White, I. ii. 60. Freely-bescrawled sheets of foolscap.
