begarle, begare

t. [Prob. from Fr. bigarrer = to diversify.] (0. Eng. & Scotch.) 1. To variegate. (a) Gen.: To deck with various colours. "Be gare it all in sundry hew is." Lyndsay: 8. P. R. , ii. 103. (Jamie son.) (b) Spec.: To stripe, to variegate with lines of various colours, to streak. "All of gold wrocht was thare riche attyre, Thar purpoure robbis be gary it schynand brycht." Douglas: Virgil, 267, 15. (Jamie son.) 2. To besmear, to bedaub, to bespatter. "Some Whalley's Bible did begarie, By letting flee at it canarie. Colville: Mock Poem , pt. 1., 59.