Beman vs Bemean - What's the difference?
beman | bemean |
To furnish or fill with men; man.
*1895 , Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library :
(obsolete) To mean; signify; inform.
To make mean or base, demean.
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As verbs the difference between beman and bemean
is that beman is to furnish or fill with men; man while bemean is (obsolete) to mean; signify; inform or bemean can be to make mean or base, demean.beman
English
Verb
(bemann)- Now do so well as to fare to meet me at thine earliest, and as much bemanned as may be; and let us be both together whatever may happen.
bemean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bemenen, equivalent to .Alternative forms
*Verb
Etymology 2
From . More at mean.Verb
(en verb)citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=G. K. Hall , isbn=9780816161171 , page=85 , passage=I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. }}