Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To make foul, defile.

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c. 1450.  Lonelich, Grail, xliii. 21.

            Alle blak becomen they, wel he wyst,
and I-fylthed there Everichon.

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1598.  E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 31.

          Thus all our Poets, as they had carousde
A health to Circes, are in hogsties housde,
Or els transformed to Goates lasciuiously,
Filthing chaste eares with theyr pens Gonorrhey.

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