besmooth, be smoot he

t. [Eng. prefix be, and smooth.] To make smooth. "And with immortal balm besmooth her skin." Chapman: Hom. Ody ., bk. viii. * bě-smot-tered, bě-smot'-trit ( O. Sc .), particip. a. [Apparently from a verb besmot ter , which is not found, nor is the simple verb smotter. But for the fact that smut does not occur till much later, hesmotter might be taken for a dim. or frequent. from besmut or smut. Skeat compares smoterlich (q.v.).] Bespattered or befouled with, or as with, mud or dirt. "Of fustian he wore a gipon All besmotred with his habergeon." Chaucer: C. Т., 75.