v. [f. BE- 1 + SULLY v.] trans. To sully or soil badly.

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a. 1635.  Corbet, Fairef. Wind., in Poems (1807), 241 (D.).

        The limber corps, be-sully’d o’er
With meagre paleness.

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1820.  Blackw. Mag., VII. 190. Cheeks are besullied with unused brine.

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