Daub
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Ezekiel 13:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2902 Used 1 time
DAUB, verb transitive
1. To smear with soft adhesive matter; to plaster; to cover with mud, slime, or other soft substance.
She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Exodus 2:3.
2. To paint coarsely.
If a picture is daubed with many bright colors, the vulgar admire it. Watts.
3. To cover with something gross or specious; to disguise with an artificial covering.
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.
4. To lay or put on without taste; to deck awkwardly or ostentatiously, or to load with affected finery.
Let him be daubed with lace- Dryden.
5. To flatter grossly.
Conscience will not daub nor flatter. South.
DAUB, verb intransitive To practice gross flattery; to play the hypocrite.
DAUB'ED, participle passive Smeared with soft adhesive matter; plastered; painted coarsely; disguised; loaded with ill chosen finery.
DAUB'ER, noun One who daubs; a coarse painter; a low and gross flatterer.
DAUB'ING, participle present tense Plastering; painting coarsely; disguising clumsily; decking ostentatiously; flattering grossly.
DAUB'ING, noun Plastering; coarse painting; gross flattery.
DAUB'RY or DAUB'ERY, n, A daubing; any thing artful.
DAUB'Y, adjective Viscous; glutinous; slimy; adhesive.