To spread, daub, cover thickly or in patches, with some unctuous, greasy, sticky, or dirty substance. Sometimes said of the substance. Also rarely…

transitive. To smear over or about; to cover the surface generally or largely with any greasy, viscous, or sticky substance; usually with the…

transitive. Frequently in passive. To smear, daub, or splatter (a person or thing) in or with grease, dirt, paint, etc. Also in earliest use: to…

transitive. To stain, smear, daub, soil.

To smear, bedaub. Obsolete. rare.

to besmear.

With adverbs. With up, = sense 1. rare.

transitive. To obscure or sully (what has been fair) by smearing with ink or other colouring liquid.

transitive. To blur all over.

transitive. To wet and soil with a thick liquid; to bedaub, bedabble, besmear.

transitive. To smear, stain, smirch, sully. Also figurative. Now dialect.

transitive. To smear, besmear.

transitive. To slabber.

transitive. To plaster in this fashion.

transitive. To smear with a sticky substance; to daub (something sticky) on a surface. Also with up.

dialect. To smear, bedaub.

transitive (usually in passive). To splash, smear, or daub (something) with liquid, paint, mud, etc. Frequently with over, up.

transitive. To besmear. rare.