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单词 berain
释义 beˈrain, v. Obs.
Forms: 3 birein, 4–5 be-, bi-, byrein, -reyn, 5 berayn, byrayn(e, 6 berain(e.
[f. be- 4 + rain; cf. OHG. bireganôn, mod.G. beregnen, in same sense.]
1. trans. To rain upon. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)
a1225Ancr. R. 344 Cloðes unseouwed ? bireined oðer unwaschen.1388Wyclif Ezek. xxii. 24 A lond vncleene and not bireyned.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. i, Yf good londe is bidewid or bireynid it fatteþ and amendeþ. [1582Batman Barth. De P.R. xiv. xlvi. 210 Also downes be more bedewed and berained than vallies.]
2. a. To besprinkle as with rain; to wet, bedew.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1144 After that he long had..with his teris salt hire breest byreyned.a1547Surrey Pris. in Windsor 42 The tears berain my cheeks of deadly hew.1567Turberv. in Chalmers Eng. Poets II. 641/1 Teares..beraine my brest.
b. To sprinkle or pour (a liquid) in drops.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 952 Byrayne aboute uppon thi wortes this.
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