† bemoilv.
Obsolete.
transitive. ‘To encumber with dirt and mire: to bemire’ (Johnson).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud
mire?c1475
glar?a1500
bemirec1532
bemud1580
bemoila1610
immire1611
muddya1616
mud1632
muddify1739
slutch1745
belute1760
slush1807
slub1886
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 93 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) When hee..riding upon a borrowed horse..falling all-to-bemoiles himself.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 67 How her horse fel..in how miery a place, how she was bemoil'd . View more context for this quotation
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