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besmile

verb

Etymology

From be- + smile.

  1. derived from *smey-✻ — “to laugh, be glad, wonder”
  2. derived from *smilāną✻ — “to smile”
  3. derived from *smilēn✻
  4. derived from smielēn
  5. derived from smielen
  6. derived from *smîlen✻ — “to smile”
  7. inherited from smilen — “to smile”
  8. prefixed as besmile — “be + smile”

Definitions

  1. To smile at

    To smile at; give or show a smile to.

    • "[...] Death's sting he felt, who touched our belt; O Love, didst thou besmile me?"
    • [...] as to whether it would be to allow this matter to pass, as it did in the case of Awrey, without any evidence — simply to besmile it away; [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for besmile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA