beshutt (beshut)

t. [ shetten, sure. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, xxxviii. The main difficulty besetting the theory of the excavation of the rock basins by ice is to explain how the ice after entering the basin manages to get out again. J. Croll , Climate and Cosmology, p. 254. 41. To employ; spend; use up. Chaucer . -51. To become; suit; look well on. - To be beset ont, to be occupied with; have one's mind fixed on. God wolde, Syn thou most love thurgh thy destenee That thou beset were on swich on that sholde Know al thi wo, al lakkede here pitee. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 521.