[f. prec. + -ING1.] Movement, motion, emotion.

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1340.  Ayenb., 263. Þe wyl of skele, to huam be-longeþ moche mayné, þoȝtes and his besteriinge.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 154. The tiny bestirrings of the least atoms.

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