1 be-strícan
p. -strác To make a stroke round :-- Wið óman. Genim ane gréne gyrde, and lǽt sittan þone man onmiddan húses flóre, and bestríc hine ymbútan (draw a circle round about him with the rod), and cweð. . . , Lch. iii. 70, 13. [Later the word (like O. H. Ger. pi-stríhhon il-, ob-linere) means to besmear. N.E.D. be-strike.] be-strican