belute

English

Etymology

be- +‎ lute

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “belute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)