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Besaiel; Besaile; Besayle
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A great-grandfather. [Obs.]
2. A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.