beshmet

[Native name.) Grapes made into a consistence resembling honey, a staple article of commerce in Asia Minor. "Beshrew your heart, fair daughter." Shakesp.: 2 Henry IV . , ii. s. 3. To deprave, make evil. "Who goth simpleli, goth trostli: who for so the be shrewith his weles, shal be maad opene."- Wycliffe (Prov. x. 9). Generally in the imperative, signifying "woe be to" (see examples above). Once in Shakespeare in the pr. indicative with I. "I beschrew all shrows." Shakesp.: Love's Labour Lost , v. 2. Beschrew me, beschrew my heart : A form of a everation; indeed. (Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexic., dc.)