"beest" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: beests [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English beest. See beestings. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|beest}} Middle English beest, {{m|en|beestings}} beestings Head templates: {{en-noun}} beest (plural beests)
  1. beestings, colostrum
    Sense id: en-beest-en-noun-nFAvrTPB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Etymology: From Middle English bēst, biest, beost, bist, from Old English bist; equivalent to be + -est. Compare West Frisian bist, German bist. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|best|bēst}} Middle English bēst, {{m|enm|biest}} biest, {{m|enm|beost}} beost, {{m|enm|bist}} bist, {{inh|en|ang|bist}} Old English bist, {{suffix|en|be|est|nocat=1}} be + -est, {{cog|fy|bist}} West Frisian bist, {{cog|de|bist}} German bist Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} beest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular present indicative or subjunctive of be Tags: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular, subjunctive Form of: be Synonyms: bist
    Sense id: en-beest-en-verb-I9gjm1-7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, Middle English links with redundant target parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 90 Related terms: am, are, is, art, be, being, been, was, wast, were, wert
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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