† dechev.
Obsolete.
To daub; to smear, to lute.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance
smear971
dechea1000
cleamc1000
besmearc1050
clamc1380
glue1382
pargeta1398
overslame?1440
plaster?1440
beslab1481
strike1525
bestrike1527
streak1540
bedaub1558
spread1574
daub1598
paste1609
beplaster1611
circumlite1657
oblite1657
fata1661
gaum?1825
treacle1839
butter1882
slap1902
slather1941
nap1961
a1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 260 Hi bewundon his lic mid linenre scytan gedéced mid wyrtum.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 150 Déc þonne anne clað þær of, lege to ðam sare.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 182 lxxviii Cnuca mid rysle, and gedec anne clað þærmid [cf. lxxix, Smyre þonne anne clað þærmid, lege to þære miltan].
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1124 Al thees comixt wol deche Every defaute, and all the woundes leche.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ix. 185 Oil-tempred lyme this joyntes shal scyment, Thenne ysels myxt with litel water renne Thorough, deching alle this holsom instrument.
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