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Besmear

verb
(past & past part. besmeared; pres. part. besmearing)
1.
Spread or daub (a surface).  Synonym: bedaub.





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... a letter, and probably at one remove from lino, litum, to anoint or besmear, because in the earlier times a tablet was smeared with wax, and letters were traced upon it with a graver. Literature, in its first meaning, would, therefore, comprise all that can be conveyed by ...
— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee


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