daubing

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daub

(dôb)

v. daubed, daub·ing, daubs

v.tr.

1. To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.

2. To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.

3. To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.

v.intr.

1. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.

2. To make crude or amateurish paintings.

3. To daub a sticky material.

1. The act or a stroke of daubing.

2. A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.

3. Matter daubed on.

4. A crude, amateurish painting or picture.

[Middle English dauben, from Old French dauber, from Latin dēalbāre, to whitewash : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.]

daub′er n.

daub′er·y (dô′bə-rē) n.

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Noun

daubing - the application of plaster

plastering

application, coating, covering - the work of applying something; "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint";

pargeting, pargetting - ornamental plastering

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Meanwhile, I shall sit here through all the hot summer, daubing at your pictures."

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