SMEAR
\smˈi͡ə], \smˈiə], \s_m_ˈiə]\
Definitions of SMEAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
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a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
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a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
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cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"
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stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
By Princeton University
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an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
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a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
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a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
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cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"
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stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
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To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
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A fat, oily substance; oinment.
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Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
By Oddity Software
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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
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To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
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A fat, oily substance; oinment.
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Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.