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A boundary. See Mere. [Obs.]

Smeared over. Dickens.

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

One that besmears.

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

The sand fluke (b). [Prov. Eng.]

Cottage cheese. [Local, U. S.]

Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).

Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous. Rowe.

To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

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

To besmear with gore.

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

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

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

f the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

Smeared with bitumen. [R.] "The hatches caulked and bitumed." Shak.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

ender obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.…