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Smear

To overspread with anything unctuous viscous or adhesive to daub as to smear anything with oil...


Smeared

Having the color mark ings ill defined as if rubbed as the smeared dagger moth Apatela oblinita...


Illinition

A smearing or rubbing in or on also that which is smeared or rubbed on as ointment or liniment...


Beplaster

To plaster over to cover or smear thickly to bedaub...


Beslobber

To slobber on to smear with spittle running from the mouth Also Fig as to beslobber with praise...


Besmear

To smear with any viscous glutinous matter to bedaub to soil...


Birdlime

An extremely adhesive viscid substance usually made of the middle bark of the holly by boiling fermenting and cleansing it When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it Hence Anything which insnares...


Bitumed

Smeared with bitumen...


Blur

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain as by soiling to smear to make indistinct and confused as to blur manuscript by handling it while damp to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink...


Calk

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of a ship boat etc to prevent leaking The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch...


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