3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smeared \Smeared\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as the
smeared dagger moth ({Apatela oblinita}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smear \Smear\ (sm[=e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smeared}
(sm[=e]rd); p. pr & vb n. {Smearing}.] [OE. smeren
smerien AS smierwan smyrwan fr smeoru fat, grease; akin
to D. smeren OHG. smirwen G. schmieren Icel. smyrja to
anoint. See {Smear}, n.]
1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or
adhesive; to daub; as to smear anything with oil. ``Smear
the sleepy grooms with blood.'' --Shak.
2. To soil in any way to contaminate; to pollute; to stain
morally; as to be smeared with infamy. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
smeared
adj : smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are
often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes";
"hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry
Roth; "ink-smudged fingers" [syn: {smirched}, {smudged},
{smudgy}]
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