besmear

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At funerals, "the women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth."

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

It is because I am old and a hermit that you are trying to besmear my advice and belittle me before my lord the king.

From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Rudder, Robert S.

They fashion his image of kadamb7 wood and besmear it with red lead.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

Drabble, drab′l, v.t. to besmear with mud and water.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It is said that elephants in India will besmear themselves with mud as a protection against insects, and that they will break branches from the trees and use them to brush away the flies.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John