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beath

  • /biːð/

Rhymes with -iːð

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From Middle English bethen, from Old English beþian, beþigean, beþþan, bæþþan (“to heat, warm, foment, wash, cherish; bathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþþjan, *baþigōn, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Middle Dutch betten, bessen (“to moisten with hot water, humidify”).

verb beaths · beathing · beathed

  1. dialectal, transitive To bathe (with warm liquid); foment. And in his hand a tall young oake he bore, Whose knottie snags were sharpned all afore, And beath'd in fire for steel to be in sted
  2. transitive To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it.

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@misc{beath_2026,
  title = {beath},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beath},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}