Definition
| • | To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. |
| • | To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. |
| • | A fat, oily substance; oinment. |
| • | Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. |
