Definition of smear

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Smear (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil..

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Anoint :: Anoint (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil..
Overred :: Overred (v. t.) To smear with red.
Smear Dab :: Smear dab () The sand fluke (b).
Unction :: Unction (n.) The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction..
Glair :: Glair (v. t.) To smear with the white of an egg.
Oil :: Oil (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..
Whitethroat :: Whitethroat (n.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca)..
Smeared :: Smeared (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita)..
Smearing :: Smearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smea.
Lard :: Lard (n.) To smear with lard or fat.
Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief..
Grease :: Grease (v. t.) To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon..
Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear..
Scaphism :: Scaphism (n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals 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..
Birdlime :: Birdlime (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made 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..
Latch :: Latch (v. t.) To smear; to anoint.
Cerecloth :: Cerecloth (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter..
Besmear :: Besmear (v. t.) To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil..
Smirch :: Smirch (v. t.) To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully..
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