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The act of smearing or covering with wax. B. Jonson.

To smear with lard or fat. In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes. Somerville.

To smear; to anoint. [Obs.] Shak.

To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. L'Estrange.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares.' Spenser.

To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

To smear with red. [Obs.]

m, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

To cover over or smear with pitch. Gen. vi. 14.

Smeared with pitch.

To spread a substance thinly over; to smear. The smoothed plank, . . . New rubbed with balm. Milton.

in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice. Milton. My life, if thou preserv's my life, Thy sacrifice shall be. Addison.

(b) The European smooth dab (Pleuronectes microcephalus); -- called also kitt, marysole, smear dab, town dab. -- Sand fly (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small dipterous flies of the genus Simulium, abounding on sandy shores, especially Simulium nocivum of the United States. They are very troublesome on account…

iminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

or the grave. The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums. Bacon.

To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.