besmear
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At funerals, "the women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
On the four corners of the platform, large jars were placed, filled with melted butter, to besmear the pyramid, that it might be the more easily set on fire.
From Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by Dr. John Scudder
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 Robert S. Rudder
She was about to besmear her face, when lady Feng pleaded: "My dear child, do let me off this time!"
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Beslobber, be-slob′ėr, v.t. to besmear with the spittle running from one's mouth: to cover with drivelling kisses: to flatter fulsomely.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
