DAUB, verb transitive 1. To smear with soft adhesive matter; to plaster; to cover with mud, slime, or other soft substance. She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Exodus 2:3. 2. To paint coarsely. If a picture is daubed with many bright colors, the vulgar admire it. Watts. 3. To cover with something gross or specious; to disguise with an artificial covering. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak. 4. To lay or put on without taste; to deck awkwardly or ostentatiously, or to load with affected finery. Let him be daubed with lace- Dryden. 5. To flatter grossly. Conscience will not daub nor flatter. South. DAUB, verb intransitive To practice gross flattery; to play the hypocrite.
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