v. [f. BE- 1 + DASH v.] trans. a. To dash against, dash about. b. To injure or spoil by dashing (as the wind or rain dashes flowers). c. To cover with dashes of color or adornment.
1564. Golding, Justine, 90 (R.). Bedect with skarlet and bedashte with golde.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 164. Like Trees bedash’d with raine.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., 196. It bedasheth on that side Cyzicum and Dindyma.
1621. Quarles, Esther, in Div. Poems (1717), 46. His comfort is bedasht and done.
1640. J. Gower, Ovid’s Fest., II. 25. The battred billows all bedash the Shippe.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, I. 131. Purple gouts bedash The guilty ground.
