bescumber

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ scumber.

Verb

bescumber (third-person singular simple present bescumbers, present participle bescumbering, simple past and past participle bescumbered)

(transitive, obsolete) To discharge ordure or dung upon.
- 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News:
  Where did you lift your leg up last? 'Gainst what? ... Did Block bescumber Statutes white Suit, wi' the Parchment Lace there? And Broker's satin doublet? All will out.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “bescumber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)