besmear

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At funerals, "the women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth."

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

He will as surely soil and besmear with sin your moral garments as would contact with the most filthy object imaginable your outer garments.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

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

“They are gentlemen, no matter how much you may wish to besmear them with low epithets.”

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.

It is said that elephants in India will besmear themselves with mud as a protection against insects, and that they will break branches from the trees and use them to brush away the flies.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John