bedaub
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To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk.
From Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang
To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The men paint or bedaub their faces and breasts with a kind of red earth.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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