v. [f. BE- 6 + SOOT.] trans. To soil or blacken with (or as with) soot. Hence Besooting vbl. sb.
1611. Cotgr., Poislure, a smutting, smeering, besooting.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 12. Was it fit that hee should besoot his face with the same paintings?
1661. Evelyn, Misc. Writ., I. (1805), 228. This coale … flies abroad … besoots all the leaves.
