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Bemark vs Bebark - What's the difference?

bemark | bebark |

In transitive terms the difference between bemark and bebark

is that bemark is to mark or cover with marks; mark up while bebark is to bark about; bark around; bark at.

As verbs the difference between bemark and bebark

is that bemark is to mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself while bebark is to bark about; bark around; bark at.

bemark

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, rare, or, obsolete) To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself.
  • To mark or cover with marks; mark up.
  • *1960 , Jack Kerouac, Lonesome traveler :
    • [...] commuter frenzy as soon they'll be charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of Walkup?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third Steet of lost bums [...]

    bebark

    English

    Verb

  • To bark about; bark around; bark at.
  • *1906 , Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain :
    • The remnant, he accounts Dust, base world's dross; even who divinest spirits; Aye, and every lofty work of theirs bebarks , Presumption, still, with his hot carrion breath.
  • *1954 , Peter Russell, Nine :
    • With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark'' it. Imagine Achilles ' bebarking a plan of Agamemnon's!