besour, besowre

t. [Eng. prefix be, and sour .] To render sour ( lit. and fig .). "How should we abhor and loath, and detest, this old leaven that so besowres all our actions; this heathenism of unregenerate carnal nature, which makes our best works so unchristian."--Hammond: Works, vol. iv., ser. 15. be-south', prep. & adv. south.] To the south of. [Eng. prefix be, and ( Scotch.) †bě-spā'ke, a preterite of BESPEAK (q.v.). but her house Bespake a sleepy hand of negligence." Words worth: The Excursion , bk. 1. bě-spăng'-le (le as el), v.t. [Eng. prefix be , and spangle .] To powder over with spangles, to besprinkle over with anything glittering, as with starlight or with dew. "Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heav'ns bespangling with dishevell'd light." Pope: Rape of the Lock , v. 130. bě-spăng-led (led as eld), pa. par. & a. [BESPANGLE.] "In one grand bespangled expanse."-Darwin: Descent of Man , pt. ii., ch. 13. bo-spăng-ling, pr . par . [BESPANGLE.] *be-spar-age, v.t. [A wrong formation for disparage (q.v.), -sparage being taken, instead of-parage, as the stem.] To disparage. "These men should come to be spar age gentlemen." -Nash: P. Penile e.