v. Obs. Also bisched. [ME. f. BE- 2 + SHED v.] trans.
1. To perfuse, drench, moisten, wet (with).
1382. Wyclif, 1 Kings xviii. 28. To the tyme that thei weren alle beshed with blood. Ibid. (1388), Isa. lv. 10. As reyn and snow … fillith the erthe, and bischedith it. Ibid., Esther xv. 8.
2. To shed (blood).
1474. Caxton, Chesse, III. iii. (1860), 7. Or he had do beshedde [? be shedde] ony blood he wepte.
