Beestings

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beestings \Beest"ings\, n.
     Same as {Biestings}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Biestings \Biest"ings\, Beestings \Beest"ings\, n. pl. [OE.
     bestynge, AS. b[=y]sting, fr. b[=y]st, beost; akin to D.
     biest, OHG. biost, G. biest; of unknown origin.]
     The first milk given by a cow after calving. --B. Jonson.
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           The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called
           biestings.                               --Newton.
                                                    (1574).
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