"beray" meaning in English

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      "form": "berays",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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          "text": "1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,\nAlso it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her."
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        "To make foul; befoul; soil."
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          "soil",
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      "ipa": "/bɪˈɹeɪ/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
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    {
      "form": "berays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beraying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "berayed",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "berayed",
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        "past"
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        }
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          "soil",
          "soil"
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    },
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