† deche, v. Obs.
[OE. décan: app. not known in the other Teut. langs.]
To daub; to smear, to lute.
| a 1000 ælfric Hom. (Thorpe) II. 260 Hi bewundon his lic mid linenre scytan ᵹedéced mid wyrtum. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 150 Déc þonne anne clað þær of, leᵹe to ðam sare. Ibid. I. 182 lxxviii, Cnuca mid rysle, and ᵹedec anne clað þærmid [cf. lxxix, Smyre þonne anne clað þærmid, leᵹe to þære miltan]. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1124 Al thees comixt wol deche Every defaute, and all the woundes leche. Ibid. ix. 185 Oil-tempred lyme this joyntes shal scyment, Thenne ysels myxt with litel water renne Thorough, deching alle this holsom instrument. |