bedye

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ dye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈdaɪ/

Verb

bedye (third-person singular simple present bedyes, present participle bedyeing or bedying, simple past and past participle bedyed)

1. (transitive) To dye or stain.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:

     Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed

Derived terms

• bedyeing, bedying

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bedye”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Debye, debye