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Webster 1913 Edition


Beshrew

Be-shrew′

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Verb.
T.
To curse; to execrate.
Beshrew
me, but I love her heartily.
Shakespeare
☞ Often a very mild form of imprecation; sometimes so far from implying a curse, as to be uttered coaxingly, nay even with some tenderness.
Schmidt.

Webster 1828 Edition


Beshrew

BESHREW'

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Verb.
T.
[be and shrew.] To wish a curse to; to execrate.
1.
To happen ill to. [Not in use.]