daub

Everyday

1. To daub is to smear something thick and sticky, such as paint, mud or clay, over a surface, often roughly. tree →
2. A daub is a rough, messy smear of paint or clay. tree →

In the lessons

in the tales, something is smeared roughly with blood, mud or clay; in art a «daub» is a painting done carelessly

Examples

• The children daubed paint all over the paper. tree →
• The walls were daubed with mud. tree →
• The cradle was overturned and daubed with blood. tree →
• Her picture was just a brown daub. tree →
• Mix the clay and daub it on the wall. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

Moses' mother daubed his basket of bulrushes with slime and pitch so that it would float. Ezekiel uses it for false prophets who daub a weak wall with whitewash to hide its faults.

Interpretation. The tradition reads Moses' mother's act as a mother's care, which saved the future leader. The word for the basket, teva, is the same as Noah's ark. Ezekiel's daubing is read as a picture of false comfort, saying "peace" when there is none.

Examples

• And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• and, lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you: Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? (Prophets EZK.13.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. (Prophets EZK.22.28, JPS 1917) tree →
• Because, even because they have led My people astray, saying: Peace, and there is no peace; and when it buildeth up a slight wall, behold, they daub it with whited plaster; (Prophets EZK.13.10, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths