3. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a
monster.
Locke.
4. To speak to; to address. [Poetic]
He thus the queen bespoke.
Dryden.
Bespeak
(Be*speak"), v. i. To speak. [Obs.] Milton.
Bespeak
(Be*speak"), n. A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)
"The night of her bespeak." Dickens.
Bespeaker
(Be*speak"er) n. One who bespeaks.
Bespeckle
(Be*spec"kle) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespeckled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeckling.] To mark
with speckles or spots. Milton.
Bespew
(Be*spew") v. t. To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.
Bespice
(Be*spice") v. t. To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.
Bespirt
(Be*spirt") v. t. Same as Bespurt.
Bespit
(Be*spit) v. t. [imp. Bespit; p. p. Bespit, Bespitten (-t'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Bespitting.] To
daub or soil with spittle. Johnson.
Bespoke
(Be*spoke") imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.
Bespot
(Be*spot") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespotted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespotting.] To mark with spots,
or as with spots.
Bespread
(Be*spread") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespread; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespreading.] To spread or
cover over.
The carpet which bespread
His rich pavilion's floor.
Glover.
Besprent
(Be*sprent") p. p. [OE. bespreynt, p. p. of besprengen, bisprengen, to besprinkle, AS.
besprengan, akin to D. & G. besprengen; pref. be- + sprengan to sprinkle. See Sprinkle.] Sprinkled
over; strewed.
His face besprent with liquid crystal shines.
Shenstone.
The floor with tassels of fir was besprent.
Longfellow.
Besprinkle
(Be*sprin"kle) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besprinkled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle
over; to scatter over.
The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground.
Dryden.
Besprinkler
(Be*sprin"kler) n. One who, or that which, besprinkles.
Besprinkling
(Be*sprin"kling) n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
Bespurt
(Be*spurt") v. t. To spurt on or over; to asperse. [Obs.] Milton.
