Definition of smear

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Smear (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment..

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Tallow :: Tallow (v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.
Smear :: Smear (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain..
Cyphonism :: Cyphonism (n.) A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations..
Bedaub :: Bedaub (v. t.) To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
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..
Cerecloth :: Cerecloth (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter..
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..
Greasy :: Greasy (superl.) Smeared or defiled with grease.
Daub :: Daub (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
Smear :: Smear (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy..
Bitumed :: Bitumed (a.) Smeared with bitumen.
Smeary :: Smeary (a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.
Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication..
Latch :: Latch (v. t.) To smear; to anoint.
Tar :: Tar (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth..
Oil :: Oil (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Slime :: Slime (v. t.) To smear with slime.
Anoint :: Anoint (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil..
Daub :: Daub (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear..
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..
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