v c P To smear rudely (vessels, the body &c.) 2 Used more especially passively or intransitively; as to get besmeared or foully covered with (grease, mud, snivel, slabber, spawl, pus, blood &c.);--used of a road, the body, nose, mouth, a vessel, an article.
v c P To smear rudely (vessels, the body &c.) 2 Used more especially passively or intransitively; as to get besmeared or foully covered with (grease, mud, snivel, slabber, spawl, pus, blood &c.);--used of a road, the body, nose, mouth, a vessel, an article.