bestream

verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To stream around, about, or all over; flood.

His eyes bestreamed with tears, his large heart quaking [...]

2

To flow in a stream; stream down.

Merchant plays you with a smile beguiling, Wife beguiles you with her tears bestreaming, [...]

Tears bestreamed her face, and the Elder of Midpoint was somewhat bemused at this reception.

3

To drench; mark by streams of.

[...] and, from using only moderate exercise, I am so bestreamed with perspiration as to make it necessary to change my clothes four or five times in the course of the day: [...]

[...] it is easy to conceive her terror when she saw my friend in this predicament, lying in my arms, and both of us bestreamed with blood.

4

To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear.

Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]

They were about the business of repair so that in a way fire did remain an enemy of water, as they caulked the longboat and disappeared below deck, carrying leather-bestreamed poles of steaming pitch.

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