bespawlt (bespal)

t. [ To soil or make foul with or as with spittle. Be spawls The conscious time with humorous foam and brawls. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. This remonstrant would invest himself conditionally with all the rheum of the town, that he might have suffi. cient to bespawl his brethren. Milton, Def. of Humb. Remonst. bespeak (bē-spēk'), v.; pret. bespoke (formerly bespake ), pp. bespoken, bespoke, ppr. bespeak ing. [ = OHG. bisprehhan , MHG. G. besprechen , bespeak), sprecan , speak: see and speak .) I. trans . 1. To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: as, to bespeak a place in a theater. Staying in Paul's Churchyard, to bespeak Ogilby's Æsop's Fables and Tully's Officys to be bound for me. Pepys , Diary, I. 138. ding liveries bespoke. Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 'Tis very true, ma'am; every thing is fixed, and the wed2. To stipulate, solicit, or ask for, as a favor: as, to bespeak a calm hearing. This is a sinister and politic kind of charity, whereby we seem to bespeak the pities of men in the like occasions. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, ii. 2. 3t. To forebode; foretell. AS. besprengan (= D. and G. besprengen ), besprinkle, The floor with ta els of fir was besprent . Long fellow , Wayside Inn, King Olaf, iv. 2. To spread; scatter. His silver tre es thin besprent. T. Warton, Grave of King Arthur. [Obsolete except in the perfect participle be sprent .] besprent (be-s Besprinkled. nt (bē-sprent'), p. a. [Pp. of bespreng.] In the flower- besprent meadows his genius we trace. Words worth, At Vallombrosa. [