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dauber1 (s.xii3/4)
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dauber1 (s.xii3/4)

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dealber,  dober  
  FEW:  albus 24,305b / *dubban 3,168a / dubban *15/ii,79a Gdf:  dauber 2,424b GdfC: ∅ TL: dauber 2,1200 DEAF:  dauber  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  daub v.  MED:  dauben v.  DMLBS:  daubare 561b / dealbare 564c

v.trans.

1to smear, smooth: 
( MS: s.xiiiin )  explicet: (F) daubet  Gloss Nequam1 260
♦to smear (with): 
( MS: s.xiii )  Si friez en viez oint de porc, [...] et le daubez de miel  Pop Med 73.62
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Ki vodera colurer chose deorree [...], prenge arnement et vin egre et un petit de cel, si mulez bien, si en dobét la chose [...]  Alchimie 382.22
2fig.to cover up: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  mis i unt allegories Dunt il dealbunt les vilainies  S Clem ANTS 11338
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  pur quei celez vus e daubet vostre soilleure e vostre ord pecché?  Ancren2 71.21

v.intrans.

fig.to deceive, pretend: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Celi ki jure en daubant En duble pecché chiet  Lum Lais ANTS 8251
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  pur coverir lur pecché e pur dauber e pur eus escuser  Ancren2 77.5

p.p. as a.

1daubed, plastered, covered with clay lime, mortar etc.: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les fonz (=of the boats) furent fet d’unes verges pelees, Petites e tenantes, de butemay daubees  Rom Chev ANTS 6394
( MS: s.xivm )  Il (=Amos) Voit [...] nostre sire esteaunt sur le mur daubee  S Jer 3va
2fig.insincere, deceitful: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  losenger de paroles daubees  Pecchez 210ra

See also:

daube  daubement  daubément  dauberie  daubeure  daubour 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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