SMEAR

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak.

2.
v.

To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. Shak.

3.
n.

A fat, oily substance; oinment. Johnson.

4.
n.

Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. Slow broke the morn, All damp and rolling vapor, with no sun, But in its place a moving smear of light. Alexander Smith.

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