besmear

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I was enforc'd to send it after him; I was beset with shame and courtesy; My honour would not let ingratitude So much besmear it.

From The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

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

And although we may besmear our liver and brain in the mire, how could we show our gratitude, even to so slight a degree as one ten-thousandth part.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

She was about to besmear her face, when lady Feng pleaded: "My dear child, do let me off this time!"

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

Overstain, ō-vėr-stān′, v.t. to besmear the surface of.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various