Dauber

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A heavy round brush of rice-root, sharpened to a round point, used for cleaning out the corners of a carriage.
  • noun. One who or that which daubs.
  • noun. A coarse, ignorant painter.
  • noun. A low and gross flatterer.
  • noun. A copperplate-printers' pad, consisting of rags firmly tied together and covered over with a piece of canvas, for inking plates
  • noun. A mud-wasp: from the way in which it daubs mud in building its nest.
  • noun. The brush used to spread blacking upon shoes, as distinguished from the polisher, or brush used for polishing; they are sometimes combined in one.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
  • noun. A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
  • noun. A low and gross flatterer.
  • noun. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an unskilled painter
  • Word Usage
    "Parrocel, whom you call a dauber, and who for that matter is a dauber, if you compare him to Vernet, is still a man of rare talent relatively to the multitude of those who have flung up the career in which they started with him. ""
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