Definition of smear

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Smear (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy..

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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..
Dab :: Dab (v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber..
Besmear :: Besmear (v. t.) To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil..
Wax :: Wax (v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table..
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..
Smear :: Smear (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain..
Smeared :: Smeared (imp. & p. p.) of Smea.
Smear :: Smear (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil..
Limy :: Limy (a.) Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous..
Cerecloth :: Cerecloth (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter..
Belime :: Belime (v. t.) To besmear or insnare with birdlime.
Smear :: Smear (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment..
Clart :: Clart (v. t.) To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc..
Slabber :: Slabber (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking..
Oil :: Oil (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Blur :: Blur (v. t.) To 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..
Illutation :: Illutation (n.) The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath..
Slaver :: Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Loam :: Loam (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam..
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