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bweari

Bingham

bwéæri

a. scorched, having a scorched smlel.

Sabatier

bweari

n. odour of smoke.
a. odoriferous, fragrant from having been smoked.
n. kabweari: a kind of fragrant smoke, fumigation to make persons, clothes, etc., odoriferous (much used in magic rites).
vc. kabweara: to fumigate by passing over smoke of odoriferous plants, to fumigate in fragrant smoke.