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.

To paint coarsely. If a picture is daubed with many bright colors, the vulgar admire it. Watts.

To cover with something gross or specious; to disguise with an artificial covering. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.

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.

To flatter grossly. Conscience will not daub nor flatter. South.

To practice gross flattery; to play the hypocrite.