Word Meanings - LATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To smear; to anoint. Shak.

Related words: (words related to LATCH)

• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• ANOINTMENT
  The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.
• ANOINT
  1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6. 2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon,
• SMEARCASE
  Cottage cheese.
• SMEAR
  akin to D. smeren, OHG. smirwen, G. schmieren, Icel. smyrja to 1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak. 2. To soil in any way;
• ANOINTER
  One who anoints.
• SMEARY
  Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous. Rowe.
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• BESMEARER
  One that besmears.
• DISANOINT
  To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king. Milton.
• ASMEAR
  Smeared over. Dickens.