belute

From be- +‎ lute.

belute (third-person singular simple present belutes, present participle beluting, simple past and past participle beluted)

1. (archaic, transitive) To spatter, slop or sully, as with mud.
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 116:

     In short, never was a Dr. Slop so beluted, and so transubstantiated, since that affair came into fashion.

• “belute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.