bedraggling

Anyway, it would seem that we have considerable advantage here, inasmuch as seeds are not in season in April -- but the pulling back to earth, the bedraggling by those sincere but dull ones of some time ago.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

So the purple of the far mountains became intensely deep and rich if she distinguished it with an exclamation of praise; and when, now and then, the curtain of the houdah fell down, it seemed a sudden dullness had dropped from the sky, bedraggling all the landscape.

Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

When they neared the summit, he noticed that at each movement the terminal hooks of their feet cut through the tender epiderm, and from the little clefts the milky juice began to flow, bedraggling their feet and the hind part of then-bodies.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891