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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Ex. ii. 3.

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is. Shak.

The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. "Dauby wax."

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To daub with slime; to soil. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.

To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson.

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way. [Scot.]

ing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.