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 Noah Webster
Besmear, be-smēr′, v.t. to smear over: to bedaub: to pollute.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The men paint or bedaub their faces and breasts with a kind of red earth.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
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
The relatives of the deceased bedaub themselves from head to foot with white clay, upon which they form the most disgusting figures, while scarcely a leg or an arm exhibits the same feature.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
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