daub

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
2. v. To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
3. v. To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.
4. v. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
5. v. To make crude or amateurish paintings.
6. v. To daub a sticky material.
7. n. The act or a stroke of daubing.
8. n. A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
9. n. Matter daubed on.
10. n. A crude, amateurish painting or picture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To smear with soft adhesive matter; plaster; cover or coat with mud, slime, or other soft substance.
2. To soil; defile; besmear.
3. Hence To paint ignorantly, coarsely, or badly.
4. To give a specious appearance to; patch up; disguise; conceal.
5. To dress or adorn without taste; deck vulgarly or ostentatiously; load as with finery.
6. n. A cheap kind of mortar; plaster made of mud.
7. n. A viscous, adhesive application; a smear.
8. n. A daubing or smearing stroke.
9. n. A coarse, inartistic painting.
10. n. In coloring enameled leather, a thick black substance put on as a first coat to fill the surface in preparation for the final coloring.

Wiktionary

1. n. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare wattle and daub).
2. n. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
3. n. A crude or amateurish painting.
4. v. To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
2. v. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
3. v. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
4. v. rare To flatter excessively or glossy.
5. v. rare To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
6. v. To smear; to play the flatterer.
7. n. A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
8. n. (Paint.) A picture coarsely executed.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
2. v. apply to a surface
3. n. an unskillful painting
4. v. coat with plaster
5. n. a blemish made by dirt
6. n. material used to daub walls