transitive verb. 1 : to daub over : besmear. 2 : to ornament with vulgar excess.

What does the Brinks mean?

: the edge at the top of a steep cliff —usually used figuratively to refer to a point that is very close to the occurrence of something very bad or (less commonly) very good He nearly lost everything because of his drug addiction, but his friends helped to pull him back from the brink.

What's the definition of demesne?

1 : legal possession of land as one's own. 2 : manorial land actually possessed by the lord and not held by tenants. 3a : the land attached to a mansion. b : landed property : estate.