besnow

Etymology

From Middle English besnewen, from Old English besnīwian (“to cover with snow”); equivalent to be- + snow. Cognate with Dutch besneeuwen (“to snow, snow in”), German beschneien (“to cover with snow”).

verb

1. To snow">snow on; to cover with snow">snow, or as if with snow">snow.
2. To scatter like snow, or as if like snow.
3. To whiten with snow, or as with snow.
   Virgins of equall birth, … / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, … 1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske,[…], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin,[…], published 1651, →OCLC, page 91