bedropv.
/bɪˈdrɒp/ 1. transitive. To drop upon, cover or wet with drops.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > with drops
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bedewc1374
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spot1854
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 254 As men sene the dew bedroppe The leves and the floures eke.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 527 The Soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon. View more context for this quotation
1829 W. Wordsworth Liberty in Wks. V. 102 Life's book for Thee may lie unclosed, till age Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page.
2.
a. past participle. Sprinkled as with drops.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > spotted
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fly-bitten1639
maculated1646
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polluted1667
diced1671
puncticular1671
pantherine1753
parded1806
guttular1811
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 965 The..body yellow, bedropt with black from the neck to the tail.
1858 Blackwood's Mag. 482 Lomond and Awe bedropt with woody isles.
b. figurative. Strewn, interspersed.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > scattered loosely or strewn
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besprent?1567
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strewn1730
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 321 It was bidropped with wratthe and wikked wille.
1855 Gilfillan Dryden Introd. 20 A tale..bedropt with the most flagrant falsehoods.
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