Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with plaster; cover or smear over thickly; bedaub.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; tobedaub .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
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The Egyptian ichneumon, when it sees the serpent called the asp, does not attack it until it has called in other ichneumons to help; to meet the blows and bites of their enemy the assailants beplaster themselves with mud, by first soaking in the river and then rolling on the ground.
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