Verb (used with object) : to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud. ,to daub plaster on a brick wall. From Dictionary.com.
Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
De log houses was daubed wid mud and dey was warm. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
De cracks in de slave houses wus daubed wid mud too. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
She has daubed letters all over the back of my new barn. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
De chinks in de walls wuz daubed wid mud to keep de weather out. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
In Turkey, of stones covered with rough boards, and daubed with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
It is much more effective thus applied than if colder and daubed on. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
That's the reason you always see new windows daubed with glaring white marks. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
De chimleys wus built of sticks and mud, den a coat of clay mud daubed over 'em. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
He came out, unshaven, and sweeping an old paint-daubed hat from his head with a low bow. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
The warriors adorned their heads with feathers and daubed their cheeks and lips with ochre. From Wordnik.com. [Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina] Reference
'Oh, you see, if I had, the rebels would' a 'come in and daubed the dough all over the place.'. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
The panes in its windows whose places had not been supplied by sheets of tin were daubed a dingy red. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The dwelling and the stables were a collection of low brown houses, made of logs and daubed with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference
It required much labor to get the four mud-daubed figures down to where the others were awaiting them. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
The mirror is cracked; the sofa is daubed with mud; a new hat lies crushed beneath an overturned chair. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
They were the first Huns I remember seeing with steel helmets daubed with staring colours by way of camouflage. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Cabins was planked up on de inside and de outside was daubed wid mud in de cracks to keep out de wind and rain. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
The paper criticized the owner for having the flags daubed over and intimated that Fouts was lacking in loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Bernard Conte, who had thrown away a crucifix forced into his hands, was daubed with pitch, and then set on fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
He deliberately daubed the painting; and the artist, stepping instinctively forward to prevent this, saved his life. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
By this time they were beautifully daubed with mud, as each appeared to be the under dog while the minutes crept along. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
It was almost new to be sure, but was daubed over with brass buttons, and therefore rather unfit for the clerical Lionel. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Ralph finished the rack, and Kat heard him remark, that she had daubed enough paint on one knob, to do for half the rack. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
All should be built high enough to contain four firing tiers under joists covered with shingles or boards and daubed close. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Put sufficient pearl-ash into hot water, to make it very strong of it; then saturate the paint which is daubed on the glass with it. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
These stand upright, under great parasols decorated with big black letters and daubed over with clouds of varied and startling colors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
Unless we can accept that, in regions aloft, there are vast viscous or gelatinous areas, and that things passing through become daubed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
A fragment of a penny candle was burning dimly near him, which showed him to be literally daubed from head to foot with the vilest filth. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
De big house was made out'n square hewed logs, and chinked wid little rocks and daubed wid white clay, and kivered wid cypress clapboards. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference
For these swell with moisture as they are daubed, and then contract as they dry, and, by their shrinking, cause the solid stucco to split. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
During one four-day binge at the Hiett home, Wilcox says, they did headstands while they snorted the drug and cleaned out each other's nostrils with Vaseline-daubed Q-Tips. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman With Two Lives] Reference
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