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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.

Smeared over. Dickens.

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

One that besmears.

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.

of 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.

render 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.…

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.