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. (archaic, 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

References

• “bedye”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Debye, debye