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

Smeared over. Dickens.

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

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.

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

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

n the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

Smeared with blood. [Obs.] Glanwill.

A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

Smeared or defiled with grease. With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak.

A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

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

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

Smeared with pitch.

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.

riminals 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.

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

To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.

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