v. [f. BE- 1 + SLAVER v. Cf. also BESLOBBER.] trans.
1. To slaver upon or over, to bedrivel; to cover with anything suggesting slaver.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, C iij. Giue the infant a bibbe, hee all to beslauers his mother tongue.
1602. Return fr. Parnass., I. ii. (Arb.), 14. One of your reumaticke Poets, that beslauers all the paper he comes by.
1870. Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 38. Unconscious if any reptile beslaver its base.
2. To cover with fulsome flattery.
1861. Life Ld. Bacon, xxii. 498. He was ready to beslaver Majesty infinitely.
Hence Beslavered ppl. a.
1598. E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 5. To thinke so well of a scald railing vaine, Which soone is vented in beslauered writs.
