pa. pple. Obs. Also 5 beswette. [f. BE- 7 + SWEAT.] Covered with sweat.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 9315. Al his burne wes bi-swæt [c. 1250 bi-swat].

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c. 1460.  Lybeaus Disc., 108. All beswette for hete.

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1470–85.  Malory, Arthur (1816), II. 206. Her horse was all to besweat.

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1574.  Hellowes, Gueuara’s Ep. (1577), 53. Your letters … come wrinckled like linnen … besweat like a doublet.

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