v. Obs. Also 7 bespaul, bespall. [f. BE- 1 + SPAWL v.] trans. To bespatter with saliva; also fig.

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1602.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. i. Bespawls The conscious time, with humours, foam, and brawls.

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1641.  Milton, Animadv., iii. 63. This Remonstrant would invest himself conditionally with all the rheum of the town … to bespaul his brethren.

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1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 215. Whose slipping guests are ready still to fall, He doth his Spartan marble so bespall.

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  Hence Bespawled ppl. a.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., ii. 33. His foame-bespawled beard.

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