Be-smirwan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - be-smirwan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- be-smirwan
- to besmear, rub with ointment, &c. :-- Besmyra eall ꝥ scínende mid hunigteáre, Lch. iii. 292, 10. ꝥ se lǽce mihte hine be-smyrwian (interlitam, Txts. 71, 1095. Besmyred, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 51. [O. H. Ger. pi-smerwan ungere.] be-smirwan