beswathe

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equivalent to be- +‎ swathe (“to becover”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -eɪð IPA(key): /bɪˈsweɪð/ === Verb === beswathe (third-person singular simple present beswathes, present participle beswathing, simple past and past participle beswathed) (Scotland, dated) to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively). 1865, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never Before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country Before the Norman Conquest, Volume 2[1]: For a swollen soreː at starting one shall cure with onlayings, that is, external applications, and salves; the salve shall be of barley groats sodden in ley, and cluvers sharn wrought with honey, and then let one lay the salve on a hot cloth, or on a skin, or on paper, beswathe with that, the swelling soon becometh nesh and bursteth within.