ppl. a. [f. BE- 1 + SPECKED: cf. besmottered.] Spotted or specked over the surface.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1593), 84. The berrie is bespect With colour tending to a blacke.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. II. (1641), 90/2. A Dragons skin All bright-bespect.
1745. Phil. Trans., XLIII. 296. Broad yellow spots [that] her whole body had been bespecked with.
