Obs. Also bestrutted. [Cf. ASTRUT, and STRUT, whence this seems to have been formed on the analogy of compounds in BE- found only in pa. pple.] Swollen.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 632. Pappes bestruct with milke.

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1648.  Herrick, Oberon’s Feast, Poems (1869), 127. He … eates the sagge And well bestrutted bees sweet bag.

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