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Webster 1913 Edition
Daub
Daub
(da̤b)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Daubed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Daubing
.] 1.
To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and
daubed
it with slime and with pitch. Ex. ii. 3.
2.
To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
If a picture is
daubed
with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts.
A lame, imperfect piece, rudely
daubed
over. Dryden.
3.
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
So smooth he
daubed
his vice with show of virtue. Shakespeare
4.
To flatter excessively or glossy.
[R.]
I can safely say, however, that, without any
I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
daubing
at all,I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
Smollett.
5.
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
[R.]
Let him be
daubed
with lace. Dryden.
Daub
(da̤b)
, Verb.
I.
To smear; to play the flatterer.
His conscience . . . will not
daub
nor flatter. South.
Daub
,Noun.
1.
A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
2.
(Paint.)
A picture coarsely executed.
Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture? . . . ’T is a melancholy
daub
, my lord. Sterne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Daub
DAUB
, v.t.Definition 2024
daub
daub
English
Noun
daub (countable and uncountable, plural daubs)
- Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare wattle and daub).
- A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
- A crude or amateurish painting.
Related terms
Translations
soft coating of mud, plaster etc
crude or amateurish painting
Verb
daub (third-person singular simple present daubs, present participle daubing, simple past and past participle daubed)
- (transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
- The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
- (transitive) To apply something to (a surface) in hasty or crude strokes.
- Bible, Exodus ii. 3
- She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
- Bible, Exodus ii. 3
- (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
- I. Watts
- If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as an excellent piece.
- Dryden
- a lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over
- I. Watts
- To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- Shakespeare
- So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
- Shakespeare
- To flatter excessively or grossly.
- Smollett
- I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
- Smollett
- To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
- Dryden
- Let him be daubed with lace.
- Dryden
Translations
to apply something in hasty or crude strokes
to cover with a specious or deceitful exterior
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