v. [OE. besceadian, f. BE- 1 + sceadian to SHADE.] To envelop in shade, overshadow. Hence Beshaded ppl. a.

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a. 1000.  Salomon & Sat. (Gr.), 339. For hwam besceadeð heo muntas and moras?

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1393.  Gower, Conf., III. 111. The highe tre the ground beshadeth.

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1423.  James I., Kingis Q., xxxii. So thik the bewis and the leues grene Beschadit all the aleyes that there were.

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a. 1606.  Sylvester, Magnif., 975.

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1621.  Quarles, Argalus & P., III. Wks. 1881, III. 273/1. She wore A Crowne of burnisht Gold, beshaded o’re With Foggs and rory mist.

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1827.  Carlyle, Germ. Rom., III. 274.

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1862.  Barnes, Rhymes Dorset Dial., II. 125. Bezide the hill’s besheäded head.

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