1. trans. To season with (or as with) spice.
1575. Churchyard, Chippes (1817), 191. Sweete words did walke, bespyest [? bespyset] with fained cheere.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XIX. viii. Seasoned also and bespiced with the costly root of the plant Laserwoort.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 316. Thou His Cup-bearer … might’st be-spice a cup.
1611. Rich, Honest. Age (1844), 50. So be-spiced, and be-poudered, that a man may well vent them the breadth of a streete.
† 2. To sprinkle as spice or seasoning. Obs.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 49 b. This root … being bespiced or bestrewed vpon their meate … killeth the Panther.
