BESPEA'AK, v.t. pret. bespoke; pp. bespoke, bespoken. [be and speak.]
1. To speak for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak a seat in a public coach.
My lade is bespoke.
2. To forebode; to foretell.
They started fears, and bespoke dangers, to scare the allies.
3. To speak to; to address. This sense is mostly poetical.
He thus the queen bespoke.
4. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances; as, his manners bespeak him a gentleman.
