beray

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ ray (“to defile”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English rayen, an aphetic form of array.

Verb

beray (third-person singular simple present berays, present participle beraying, simple past and past participle berayed)

1. To make foul; befoul; soil.
   • 1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,

     Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

Anagrams

• Bayer, Earby, Yebra, barye, beary, by ear, yerba