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Definition of Besmearing
1. besmear [v] - See also: besmear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besmearing
Literary usage of Besmearing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents Relating to the by Francis Samuel Drake (1884)
"... his neighbor, besmearing each other's faces with lampblack and red ochre.
WILLIAM RUSSELL. William, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Hacker Russell, ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"We have faith for a efence, if we are not smitten with distrust self also, in
immediately making the sign " ad adjuring,3 and besmearing the heel with *Of ..."
3. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"From this the Queen's messengers obtain slips or lath« of wood which they use as
torches when travelling by night. TA'VOHA, ». The act of besmearing, ..."
4. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1852)
"A strict watch was kept for the Devil's emissaries, and any man who wanted to be
rid of an enemy, had only to say that he had seen him besmearing a door ..."
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