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▪ I. daubing, vbl. n.|ˈdɔːbɪŋ|
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1. The action of the vb. daub in various senses.
chinking and daubing: see chinking vbl. n.1 2.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 198 Peers..putte hem alle to werke, In daubyng and in deluyng. 1486Nottingham Rec. III. 241 Temperyng of morter, and lattyng and dawbyng at þe hous. 1544Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading 70 To a mason for lathyng [an]d dawbyng iiijd. 1656Artif. Handsom. 115 [They] used such..dawbings of black, red, and white, as wholly changed the very naturall looks. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. iii. xv. 263 To prevent this swelling..much salving, dawbing, annointing, &c. they have used. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. iii. (ed. 2) 186 Corrupt and foul Puddles, whose ill Scents and nasty Daubings are always ready to affect and damage the Utensils and Worts. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 432 note, Blackening a character which was black enough without such daubing.
b. The putting a false show on anything (obs.); hypocritical flattery.
1655Sanderson Serm. II. Pref., That all court chaplains were parasites, and their preaching little other than daubing. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life iii. (1696) 390 God..sees through all the Dawbings and Fucu's of Hypocrisie. 1766Smollett Trav. II. xxix. (Jodr.), Without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate humble servant. 1803Scott Let. Miss Seward in Lockhart xi, Such exaggerated daubing as Mr. Hayley has bestowed upon poor Cowper.
c. Painting coarsely or inartistically; hence, a coarsely or badly executed painting.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 491 No such..offensive Sight as Pencill-dawbing. 1680Otway Orphan Ded., Hasty dawbing will but spoil the picture. 1713Pope Guardian No. 78, I knew a painter..make his dawbings to be thought originals by setting them in the smoak. 1752Foote Taste i. Wks. 1799 I. 9 How high did your genius soar? To the daubing diabolical angels for ale-houses. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. III. 194 Worth a housefull of Verrio's daubings.
2. Material with which anything is daubed; esp. mortar or clay used in daubing walls; rough-cast.
1382Wyclif Ezek. xiii. 12 Wher is the dawbynge, that ȝe dawbiden [1611 the dawbing wherwith ye haue dawbed it]? 1598Florio, Empiastro, a plaister, a daubing. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 158 To force and wrong Nature with Birdlime, Chaulk, Dawbing, and such trash. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 49 b, They..are not too hasty to lay the second dawbing over this. 1806–7A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) I. 49 The old cottages are generally of clay daubing. a1848Carlton New Purchase I. 61 (Bartlett) The interstices of the log wall were ‘chinked’—the chinking being large chips and small slabs..and the daubing, yellow clay..splashed in soft.
b. According to Knight, Dict. Mech. (U.S.), a synonym of dubbing for leather.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1540MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For a dawbyng forke jd. 1660Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 473 Such..shifting and canvesing, and daubing doings in a business of such moment. 1663Gerbier Counsel D j a, The old Norman gotish Lime and Haire-like daubing custome.
▪ II. ˈdaubing, ppl. a.
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That daubs; esp. that bedaubs with flattery (obs.). Hence ˈdaubingly adv., in a daubing manner.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. v. §3 (1669) 84 He hath his daubing Preachers..with their soul-flattering. 1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer 1 She..hates the lying, masking, daubing world. 1682S. Pordage Medal Rev. Ep. 2 As much to the life, as the pretended Whiggs Heroe most daubingly was lately aimed at, by the Author of the Medal. 1719W. Duncombe in J. Duncombe's Lett. (1773) I. 239 The daubing sycophant. |