bedaub, bedawb

t. [Eng. prefix be, and daub.] 1. Lit. To daub over, to besmear. lowed by with , more rarely by in .) "A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse, Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood, All in gore blood." (Fol Shakesp. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2. "Here, therefore, they wallowed for a time, being grievously bedaud'd with the dirt..."-Bunyan: P. P., pt. i. 2. Figuratively : (a) To disfigure by unsuitable vestments. "Every moderate man is bedaubed with these goodly habiliments of Arm in i an ism, Popery, and what not."-Mountagu's Appeal to Casar, p. 139. (b) To flatter in a coarse manner; to offer fulsome compliments to. "Parasites bedawb us with false encomiums."Burton: Anat. of Mel ., p. 121.