scumbling

English

Verb

scumbling

1. present participle and gerund of scumble

Noun

scumbling (plural scumblings)

1. An application of scumbling; an opaque glaze.
   • 2003, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Art in America - Volume 91, page 121:

     On Martha's Vineyard, Summer 1962 is a canvasful of brushstrokes and scumblings, some wet into wet, some dry-brushed, with accidental runs of thinned paint allowed to remain.