bedaub

Example Sentences

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The women wear small ear-rings of silver, but use no paint, nor do they bedaub their persons with any sort of pigment.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Huish, Robert

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Demosthenes describes the mother of Æschines as a dabbler in mysteries, and tells how Æschines used to assist her by helping to bedaub the initiate with clay and bran.

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah