v. Forms: 1 besniwan, 4 bi-, by-, besnywe(n, -snewe(n, 6– besnow. [OE. besníwian, f. BE- 1 + sníwan to SNOW.] trans. To snow on; to cover or whiten with, or as with, snow; also fig. Hence Besnowed ppl. a.
a. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, Voc., 175. Ninguidus, besniwod.
1340. Ayenb., 81. Non vayr body ne is bote … ase a donghel besnewed.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 51. He was with yiftes all besnewed.
1597. Drayton, Mortimer., 26. The battered Caskes … Besnow the soyle with drifts of scattered plumes.
1633. True Trojans, I. iii. Foam besnows the trampled corn.
1849. Lytton, Caxtons, II. IX. xxxix. A fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside.
