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Definition of Smeared
1. a. Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).
Definition of Smeared
1. Verb. (past of smear) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smeared
1. smear [v] - See also: smear
Medical Definition of Smeared
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Smeared
Literary usage of Smeared
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"It means more than smeared, and refers to the clotted, matted blood of Banquo,
who had " twenty trenched gashes on his head." In the two early instances of ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"A slimy mucus is smeared over their skin, to which they owe their Greek name of
Blennius. Several are viviparous, and there is a tubercle near the anus of ..."
3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"22). and smeared with gum. They then gave it up to the relatives of the deceased,
who provided for it a wooden case, made in the shape of a man, ..."
4. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... in Accusing the Hated Genus Tertium—Vast Numbers of Christians Put to Death—Fury
of the Populace— Many Christians Thrown to Wild Beasts—smeared with Tar ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... and then inserting the end of the other cord into the broad end of a hollow
conical steel needle, which ie smeared with glycerin, the second cord may be ..."
6. American States, Churches, and Slavery by Joshua Rhodes Balme (1862)
"During the above conversation, Brown " lay on the floor," his gray hair matted
and tangled, his hands and clothes smeared with blood and begrimed with dirt, ..."
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