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Webster 1913 Edition


Belute

Be-lute′

(bē̍-lūt′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Beluted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Beluting
.]
[Pref.
be-
+ L.
lutum
mud.]
To bespatter, as with mud.
[R.]
Sterne.

Definition 2024


belute

belute

English

Verb

belute (third-person singular simple present belutes, present participle beluting, simple past and past participle beluted)

  1. (transitive) To bespatter, as with mud.
    1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 116:
    In short, never was a Dr. Slop so beluted , and so transubstantiated, since that affair came into fashion.