Bedaub; pollute

Usage examples of besmear.

Our youth their naked limbs besmear with oil, And exercise the wrastlers' noble toil.

The common crew with wreaths of poplar boughs Their temples crown, and shade their sweaty brows: Besmear'd with oil, their naked shoulders shine.

Above his arms, fix'd on the leafless wood, Appear'd his plumy crest, besmear'd with blood: His brazen buckler on the left was seen.

The champion's chariot next is seen to roll, Besmear'd with hostile blood, and honorably foul.

With filth his venerable beard besmears, And sordid dust deforms his silver hairs.

This grim paw of his, now frozen in the stone just under us, is still besmeared, of course, with his levitative ointment, whose stone-spurning virtues lend, in upper air, the power to stride the sky.

I long to see thee back return from thence, That I may view these milk-white steeds of mine All loaden with the heads of killed men, And, from their knees even to their hoofs below, Besmear'd with blood that makes a dainty show.

Think, Portius, think, thou seest thy dying brother Stabb'd at his heart, and all besmear'd with blood, Storming at heaven and thee!

First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim Idol.

Mean while our Primitive great Sire, to meet His god-like Guest, walks forth, without more train Accompani'd then with his own compleat Perfections, in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.

These probably sink down besmeared with the secretion and rest on the small sessile glands, which, if we may judge by the analogy of Drosophyllum, then pour forth their secretion and afterwards absorb the digested matter.

And out comes a figure so unsteady, so besmeared and bedraggled and fouled as to be barely recognizable as Yule.

First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears.

There are, finally, the patriots: on the evening of the insurrection, between the Pont-au-Change and the Pont-Marie, the half-naked ragamuffins, besmeared with dirt, bearing along their hand-barrows, are fully alive to their cause.

On the way "they dragged their victims on the ground, pummeled them, trampled on them, spit in their faces, and besmeared them with filth.