Loading...

KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Daub

The Bible

Bible Usage:

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:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Daub

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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Daubed

DAUB'ED, participle passive Smeared with soft adhesive matter; plastered; painted coarsely; disguised; loaded with ill chosen finery.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dauber

DAUB'ER, noun One who daubs; a coarse painter; a low and gross flatterer.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Daubing

DAUB'ING, participle present tense Plastering; painting coarsely; disguising clumsily; decking ostentatiously; flattering grossly.

DAUB'ING, noun Plastering; coarse painting; gross flattery.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Daubry

DAUB'RY or DAUB'ERY, n, A daubing; any thing artful.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dauby

DAUB'Y, adjective Viscous; glutinous; slimy; adhesive.