bedaub
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To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Our pessimist frauds and the Ibsensite pack Will groan as they thickly bedaub it in black.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various
Does any one bedaub his friends with flattery?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
