Also 5 bywet. Pa. t. and pa. pple. 4–8 by-, bewet(te, 7 bewetted. [f. BE- 2 + WET v.] trans. To wet profusely.
c. 1400. Test. Love, I. (1560), 272 b/2. The beames … of thyne eyen arne so bewet.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W.), I. xxxv. 30 a/1. Saynt Anthonye … wepte and alle bywette his face wyth teeres.
1528. A. Dalaber, in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1856), II. 52. We all bewet both our faces.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., III. i. 146. His Napkin with her true teares all bewet.
1643. Burroughes, Exp. Hosea, iii. (1655), 55. As Gideons fleece bewetted with the tempest of Gods wrath.
1718. Rowe, Lucan, v. The crow bewets her, and prevents the rain.
