Smirch (?), v. t. [From the root of smear.]
To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face.
Shak.
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Smirch (?), n.
A smutch; a dirty stain.
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