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daub
Part of speech: VerbTo cover or smear with mud, plaster, etc; paint unskilfully.
Part of speech: Noun Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "daub":- " It will be a companion to the old family picture of the Jew and Sir Josseline," continued Mowbray; " and this will make the vile daub, which I've had the luck to pick up, invaluable to my mother, and I trust very valuable to me." - "Tales & Novels, Vol. IX [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond]", Maria Edgeworth.
- It is all settled but the daub of ink. - "The Grey Cloak", Harold MacGrath.
- That evening I was seated on the veranda beside Wilna- Miss Blythe's name was Wilna- and what with gazing at her and fitting together some of the folding box- traps which I always carried with me- and what with trying to realise the pecuniary magnificence of our future existence together, I was exceedingly busy when Blythe came in to display, as I supposed, his most recent daub to me. - "Police!!!", Robert W. Chambers.