beest
Verb
  1. (archaic) second-person singular present subjunctive of be#English|be
    • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene ii:
      Stephano! if thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speake to me: for I am Trinculo; be not afeard, thy good friend Trinculo.
    • a. 1631, John Donne, ‘The Baite’, Poems (1633):
      If thou, to be so seene, beest loath, / By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both […].



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