a woman. a tricks; and the fox is then to put a slur upon ick.) Meanly artful; sccretly insihim, in exposing him for sport to the scorn of dious; cunning: the people. L'Estrange. For my sly wiles and subtile craftiness, No one can rely upon such an one, either The title of the kingdom I possess. with safety to his affairs, or without a slur to his 11hlerid's Tale reputation; since he that trusts a knave has no And for I doubt the Greekish monarch sly, other recompence but to be accounted a fool for Will use with himn some of his wouted craft. his pains. South. Fair fux. SLUT. n. s. [slodde, Dutch.] His proud step he scornful turn'd, 1. A dirty woman. And with si'y circumspection. Milton. Cricket, to Windsor chimnies shalt thou lear: Envy is a cursed plant; some fibres of it are Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and heartós rooted almost in every man's nature, and it unswert, works in a sly and imperceptible manner. Watts. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry; It is odious in a man to looksly and leering at Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery. Clarissa. Sbakspeare. SLY'LY, adv. (from sly.] With secret The veal's all rags, the butter 's turn'd to oil; artifice; insidiously. And thus I buy good meat for sluts to spoil. King. To SMACK. v. 1. (smäckan, Sax. smaec2. A word of slight contempt to a wo- ken, Dutch.] 1. To have a taste; to be tinctured with man, Hold up, you sluts, any particular taste. Your aprons mountant; you're not oathable, 2. To have a tincture or quality infused. Although I know you 'll swear. Shakspeare. - All sects, all ages, smack of this vice, and he The frogs were ready to leap out of their To die for it! Sbakspeare. skins for joy, till one crafty old slut in the com- He is but a bastard to the time, pany advised them to consider a little better on 't. That doth not smack of observation. Sbakspeare. L'Estrange. 3. To make a noise by separation of the SLU’TTERY. n. s. [from slut.] The qua- lips strongly pressed together, as after a lities or practice of a slut. taste. Slutt'ry, to such ncat excellence oppos'd, She kiss'd with smacking lip the snoring lout; Should make desire vomit emptiness. Sbaks. For such a kiss demands a pair of gloves. Gay. These make our girls their stuttery rue, 4. To kiss with a close compression of the By pinching them both black and blue; And lips, so as to be heard when they se. put a penny in their shoe, The house for cleanly sweeping, Drayton. parate. A man gave money for a black, upon an opi He gives a smacking buss. Pops. nion that his swarthy colour was rather sluttery To SMACK, v. a. than nature, and the fault of his master that 1. To kiss. kept him no cleaner. L'Estrange. So careless flow’rs, strow'd on thewater's face, SLU'TTISH. adj. [from slut.] The curled whirlpools suck, smack, and embrace, 1. Nasty ; not nice ; not cleanly; dirty; Yet drown them. Donne. indecently negligent of cleanliness. 2. To make to emit any quick smart noise. All preparations both for food and lodging, More than one steed must Delia's empire feel, such as would make one detest niggardness, it is Who'sits triumphant o'er the flying wheel; so sluttisb a vice. Sidney. And, as she guides it through th' admiring Albeit the mariners do covet store of cab throng, bins, yet indeed they are but sluttish dens that With what an air she smacks the silken thong! breed sickness in peace, serving to cover stealths, Young. and in tight are dangerous to tear men with their SMACK. n. s. (smaeck, Dutch ; from the splinters. Raleigh. verb.] The nastiness of that nation, and sluttish course of life, hath much promoted the opinion, 1. Taste ; savour. occasioned by their servile condition at first, and 2. Tincture; quality from something mixed. inferior ways of parsimony ever since. Brown. The child, that sucketh the milk of the nurse, Slothful disorder fill'd his stable, learns his first speech of her; the which, being And sluttisb plenty deck'd her table. Prior. the first inured to his tongue, is ever after most 2. It is used sometimes for meretricious. pleasing unto him; insomuch, that though he afShe got a legacy by sluttisb tricks. Holiday. terwards be taught Englishı, yet the smäck of the first will always abide with him. Slu'TTISILY. adv. [from sluttish.] In Spenser. Your lordship, though not clean past your a sluttish manner; nastily; dirtily. youth, hath yèt some smask of age in you, some SLU'TTISHNESS. n. s. [from sluttish.] relish of the saltness of time, and have a care of The qualities or practice of a slut; nas Sbakspeare, It caused the neighborirs to rue, that a petty tiness; dirtiness. smack only of popery opened a gap to the opThat is only suitable in laying a foul com pression of the whole. Carat. plexion upon a filthy favour, setting forth both Sidnet. in sluttishness. As the Pythagorean soil I look on the instinct of this noisome and Runs through all beasts, and fish, and fowl, And has a smack of ev'ry one, troublesome creature, the louse, of searching out So love does, and has ever done. Hudibrain toul and nasty clothes to harbour and breed in, as an effect of divine providence, designed to de 3. A pleasing taste. ter men and women from sluttishness and sor Stack pease upon horel; didness, and to provoke them to cleanliness and To cover it quickly let owner regard, Ray. Lest dove and the cadow tliere finding a smacky With ill stormy weatlier do perish this stack. SLY. adj. (slid, Sax. slippery, and me Tusser. taphorically deceitful; slagir, Island. 4. A small quantity; a taste your health. neatness. Trembling to approach Her garment was cut after such a fashion, The little barrel, which he fears to broach, that though the length of it reached to the H'essays the wimble, often draws it back, ancles, yet in her going one miglit sometimes And deals to thirsty servants but a smack. Dryd. discern the small of her leg. Sidney. 5. The act of parting the lips audibly, as Into her legs I'd have love's issues fall, after a pleasing taste. And all her calf into a gouty small. Suckling: 6. A loud kiss. His excellency, having mounted on the small Gulliver. He took of my leg, advanced forwards. The bride about the neck, and kiss'd her lips SMA'LLAGE, N. s. [from small age, beWith such a clamorous smack, that at the parting cause it soon withers. Skinner. EleoseAll the church echo'd. Shakspeare. linon, Lat.) A plant. It is a species I saw the lecherous citizen turn back' of parsley, and a common weed by the His head, and on his wife's lip steal a smack. sides of ditches and brooks. Miner. Donne. Smuullage is raised by slips or seed, which is 7. (snacca, Sax. sneckra, Islandick.) A reddish, and pretty big, of a roundish oval fismall ship. gure; a licile more full and rising on one side SMALL, adj. (small, Sax. smal, Dutch ; ihan the other, and streaked from one end to the other, Mortimer. smaar, Islandick.] 1. Little in quantity; not great. SMA'LLCOAL, 11. so [small and coal.] LitFor a small moment have I forsaken thee, but tle wood coals used to light fires. with great mercies will I gather thee. Isaiab. A smallcoal man, by waking one of these dis Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, tressed gentlemen, saved him from ten years The mighty soul how small a body holds. Dryd. imprisonment. Spectator. All numeration is but still the adding of one When smallcoal murmurs in the hoarser throat, unit more, and giving to the whole together a From smutty dangers guard thy threaten'd coat. distinct name, whereby to distinguish it from Gay. every smaller or greater multitude of units. Locke. SMA'LLCRAFT, n. s. [small and craft.] The ordinary smallest measure we have is A little vessel below the denomination looked on as an unit in number. Locke. of a ship. The danger is less when the quantity of the Shall he before me sign, whom t' other day fuids is too small, than when it is too great; for A smalliraft vessel hither did convey; a smaller quantity will pass where a larger can- Where stain'd with prunes and rotten figs he lay? not, but not contrariwise. Arbutbrot. Dryden. Good cooks cannot abide fiddling work: such SMA’LLNESS. n. s. [from small.] is the dressing of small birds, requiring a world 1. Littleness; not greatness. of cookery. Swift. The parts in glass are evenly spread, but are 2. Slender; exile ; minute. not so close as in gold; as we see by the easy adAfter the earthquake a fire, and after the fire mission of light, and by the smallness of the a still small voice. 1 Kings, Bacon. exility. For wings, and smallest lineaments exact. Milt. Whatsoever is invisible, in respect of the fine ness of the body, or the smallness of the parts, Small-grained sand is esteemed the best for the tenant, and the large for the landlord and or subtilty of the motion, is little enquired. land. Mortimer. Bacon. The smallness of the rays of light raay contri3. Little in degree. bute very much to the power of the agent by There arose no small stir about that way. which they are refracted, Nereton, Äits. 4. Little in importance ; petty; minute. 3. Want of strength; weakness. Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my SMA'LLPoX. n. s. [small and por.] An husband? Genesis. eruptive distemper of great malignity; Narrow man being fill'd with little shares, variole. Courts, city, church, are all shops of small wares; He fell sick of the smallpox. Viseman. All having blown to sparks their noble tire, SMA'LL Y. adv. [from small.] In a little And drawn their sound gold ingot into vire. Donne, quantity; with minuteness ; in a little Some men's behaviour is like a verse, wherein or low degree. every syllable is measured: how can a man A child that is still, and somewhat hard of comprehend great matters that breaketh his wit, is never chosen by the father to be made a mind too much to small observations ? Bacon. scholar; or else, when he cometh to the school, Knowing, by fame, small poets, small musi- is smally regarded. Ascbam. cians, SMALT. N. 5. A beautiful blue substances Small painters, and still smaller politicians. Harte. produced from two parts of zallre being Small is the subject, but not so the praise. fused with three parts common salt, and Pope. one part potash. Hiil. 5. Little in the principal quality; not To make a light purple, minule ceruse with strong; weak : as, small beer. logwood kater; and moreover turnsoil with lac P. 1, 2, Go down to the cellar to draw ale or small mingled with smalt of bice. beer. Swift. SMA'R AGDINE. adi. [smarazdinus, Lat.] SMALL, n. s. (from the adjective.] The Made of emerald ; resembling emerald. small or narrow part of any thing. It is Smart. n. s. (rin-017, Saxon; snert, particularly applied to the part of the Dutch; smarta, Swedish. ] leg below the cal .. 1. Quick, pungent, livly, pain. ness. 3 Then her mind, though too late, by the stort, that of a sviech or other wand, which produce was brought to think of the disease. Sidney. no sound, if they do but slowly pass through the 2: Pain, corporal or intellectual. air; whereas, it the one do smartly strike the Mishaps are master'd by advice discreet, air, and the other be shot out of a gun, the ceAnd counsel mitigates the greatest smart. lerity of their percussions on the air puts it into Fairy Queen. an undulating motion, which, reaching the ear, It increased the smart of his present suffer- produces an audible noise. Boyle. ings, to compare them with his former happi- 2. Liveliness; briskness; wittiness. Atterbury. I defy all the clubs to invent a new phrase, TO SMART. v. n. (smeontan, Saxon ; equal in wit, humour, smartness, or politeness, to my set. Swift. smerten, Dutch.) SMATCH. n. s. (corrupted from smack.] 1. To feel quick lively pain. When a man's wounds cease to smart, only 1. Taste ; tiucture; twang. because he has lost his feeling, they are never Thou art a fellow of a good respect; theless mortal. South. Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in 't. Human blood, when first let, is mild, and will Sbakspeare, not make the eye, or a fresh wound, smart. Some nations have a peculiar guttural or pasal smatch in their language. Holder, Arbuthnot. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste, 2. To feel pain of body or mind. but mixt with a smatcb of a vitriolick. Grew. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Proverbs. 2. [cæruleo, Latin.) A bird. No creature smarts so little as a fool. TO SMA'TTER. v. n. [It is supposed to be Let peals of laughter, Codrus! round thee break, corrupted from smack or taste.] Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack. 1. To have a slight taste; to have a slight, Pope. superficial, and imperfect, knowledge. SMART. adj. (from the noun,] Such a practice gives a slight smattering of se1. Pungent ; sharp, causing smart. veral sciences, without any solid knowledge. How smart a lash that speech doth give my Watts. conscience! Sbakspeare. Since, by a little smattering in learning, and To the fair he fain would quarter show, great conceit of himself, he has lost his religion, His tender heart recoils at every blow; may he find it again by harder study and an If unawares he gives too smart a stroke, humbler mind. Bentky. He means but to correct, and not provoke. 2. To talk superficially or ignorantly. Granville. In proper terms, such as men smatter, 2. Quick; vigorous; active. When they throw out and miss the matter, That day was spent in smart skirmishes, in Hudibrar. which many fell. Clarendon. Of state affairs you cannot smatter; This sound proceeded from the nimble and Are aukward when you try to flatter. Stuift. smart percussions of the ambient air, made by SMA'TTER. n. s. (from the verb.) Superthe swift and irregular motions of the particles ficial or slight knowledge. of the liquors. Boyle. All other sciences were extinguished during 3. Producing any effect with force and this empire, excepting only a smatter of judicial vigour. astrology. Temple, After show'rs SMA'TTERER. n. s. [from smatter. ] One That stars shine smarter, and the moon adorns, who has a slight or superficial knowAs with unborrow'd beams, her sharpen'd horns. ledge. Dryden. These few who preserve any rudiments of 4. Acute; witty. learning, are, except one or two smasterers, the It was a smart reply that Augustus made to clergy's friends. Swift. one that ministred this comfort of the fatality To SMEAR. v. a.[rmeran, Saxon; smeerof things: this was so far from giving any ease to his mind, that it was the very thing that en, Dutch.] troubled him. Tillotson, 1. To overspread with something viscous $. Brisk ; vivacious; lively. and adhesive; to besmear. You may see a smart rhetorician turning his If any such be here, that love this painting, hat in his hands, during the whole course of his Wherein you see me smear'd, harangue. A deaf man would think he was If any think brave death outweighs bad life, cheapening a beaver. Addison. Sbakspeare. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Then from the mountain hewing timber tall, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? Began to build a vessel of huge bulk, Young. Milton. SMART. 4. s. A fellow affecting briskness Smear'd as she was with black Gorgonean and vivacity. A cant word. blood, SMA'RTLY. adv. [from smart.] After a The fury sprang above the Stygian flcod. Drake 2. To soil; to contaminate. smart manner; sharply; briskly; vigor- Why had I not, with charitable hand, ously; wittily. Took up a beggar's issue at my gates ? The art, order, and gravity, of those proceed- Who smeared thus, and mir'd with infamy, ings, where short, severe, constant, rules were I might have said no part of it is mine. Sbals, set, and smartly pursued, made them less taken SMEAR. n. s. (from the verb.] An ointnotice of. Clarendon, ment; any fat liquor or juice SMA'RTNESS. 1. s. [from smart.) SME A'ry, adj. (from smear.] Dauby ; 1. The quality of being smart; quickness; adhesive. vigour. A smeary foam works o'er my grinding jaws, What interest such a smartress in striking the And utmost anguish shakes my lab'ring frame, air hath in the production of sound, may in some Rezas. measure appear by the motion of a bullet, and SMSATH. ni s. A seafowl. sea fish. Y& SXEETA or SMUTCH. v. a. [rmisbe, SME'LLER, 17. s. [from smell.] He who Saxon.] To smoke; to blacken with smells. smoke. Not in use. SME'LLFEAST. n. s. (smell and feast.) A SME'GMATICK, adj. [qužypa.] Soapy ; parasite; one who haunts good tables. detersive. Dict. The ant lives upon her own, honestly gotten; TO SMELL, V. a. pret. and part. smelt. whereas the fly is an intruder, and a common (Of this word the etymology is very smellfcast, that spunges upon other people's trenchers. obscure. Skinner, the most acute of all SMELT. The pret. and part. pass. of smell. L'Estrange. etymologists, derives it from smoel, A cudgel he had felt, warm, Dutch; because smells are in- And far enough on this occasion smelt. King. creased by hea:.] SMELT. n. s. (smelt, Saxon.] A small 1. To perceive by the nose. Their neighbours hear the saine musick, or Of round fish there are brit, sprat, barn, sprelts. smell the same perfumes, with themselves : for Carew. here is endish. Collier. To SMELT. v. a. (smalta, Islandick; 2. To find out by mental sagacity. smelten, Dutch.) To melt ore, so as to The horse smeio him out, and presently a crochet came in his head how to countermine extract the metal. him. L'Estrange. A sort of earth, of a dusky red colour, found chiefly in iron mines. Some of this earth con. T. SMELL. v. 1. tains as much iron as to render it worth smelt1. To strike the nostrils. ing: Woodward. The king is but a man as I am: the violet SME’LTER. N. s. [from smelt.] One who smells to him as it doth to me; all nis senses have. melts ore. but human conditions. Sbakspeare. The daintiest smells of flowers are out of those The smelders come up to the assayers. Woodtv. plants whose leaves smell not. Bacon. TO SMERK. v. a. [rmescian, Saxon.) To 2. To have any particular scent: with of. smile wantonly. Honey in Spain smelletb apparently of the Certain gentlemen of the gown, whose auk. rosemary or orange, from whence the bee ga ward, spruce, prim, sneering, and smirking coun thereth it. Bacon. tenances have got good preferment by force of A work of this nature is not to be performed cringing. Swift, upon one leg, and should smell of oil if duly SMERKY or SMIRK, adj. Nice; smart; handled. Brown, jaunty. If you have a silver saucepan, and the butter Seest, how brag yon bullock bears, smells of smoke, lay the fault upon the coals. So smirk, so smooth, his pricked ears; Swift. His horns been as brade as rainbow bent, 3. To have a particular tincture or smack His dex-lap as lith as lass of Kent. Spenser. of any quality. SME'RLIN. n. s. [cobitis aculeata. ] A fish. My unsoild name, the austereness of my life, Ainsworth. Will so your accusation overweigh, SMI'CKET. n. s. (diminutive of smock; That you shall stifle in your own report, smocket, smicket.] The under garment And smell of calumny. Shakspeare. of a woman. As when a griffon, seized of his prey, A dragon fierce encountreth in his flight, thereto, shall be cut off. Exodus. Through widest air making his idle way, That would his rightful ravin rend away; I had a mind to know, whether they would With hideous horrour both together smight, find out the treasure, and whether smelling enabled them to know what is good for their nou And souce so sore that they the leavens affray. rishment. Spectator. Feiry Queen. s. To exercise sagacity. TO SMILE. V. n. (smuglen, Dutch.] Down with the nose, take the bridge quite 1. To contract the face with pleasure ; to away, express kindness, love, or gladness, by Of him that, his particular to forefend, the countenance : contrary to frown. Smells from the general weal. Sbakspeare. The goddess of the mountain smiled upon her SMELL. 9. s. [from the verb.) votaries, and cheared. them in their passage to 1. Power of smelling; the sense of which her palace. Tatlera the nose is the organ. The smiling infant in his hand shall take Next, in the nostrils she doth use the smell, The crested basilisk and speckled snake. Popee As God the breath of life in them did give : She smil'd to see the doughty hero siain; So makes he now this power in them to dwell, But, at her smile, the beau reviv'd again. Pope. But when her anxious lord return'd, To judge all airs whereby we breathe and live. Davies. Rais'd is her head; her eyes are dry'd : She smiles as William ne'er had mourn'd, 2. Scent ; power of affecting the nose. She looks as Mary ne'er had dy'd. Prior. The sweetest smell in the air is the white double violet, which comes cwice a-year. Bacon. 2. To express slight contempt by the look, All sweet smells have joined with them some Our king replied, which some will smile at earthy or crude odours. Bacon. now, Camden. Pleasant smells are not confined unto vegeta Should some more sober critick come abroad, bles, but found in divers animals. Brorun. There is a great variety of smells, though we If wrong, I smile; if right, I kiss the rod. Popes have but a few names for them: the smell of a "T was what I said to Crags and Child, violet and of musk, both sweet, are as distinct as Who prais'd my modesty, and smilde any two smellan Leike, 3. To look gay or joyous, : Ropa a by him. Let their heirs enrich their time Fir’d with the views this glitt'ring scene di With smiling plenty and fair prosp'rous days. plays, Shakspeare. And smit' with passion for my country's praise, For see the morn, My artless reed attempts this lofty theme, Where sacred Isis rolls her ancient stream. Ticke! TO SMITE, v. a. pret. smote ; participle Birds on the branches warbling. Milton. pass. smit, smitten. [rmitan, Saxon ; Rolls o'er Elysian fiow'rs her amber stream; smijten, Dutch.] With these, that never fade, the spirits elect 1. To strike; to reach with a blow. Bind their resplendent locks inwreath'd with So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not beams; To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the As thy eye beams, when their fresh rays have bright smote Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, The night of dew that on my cheeks down Impurpled with celestial roses smil’d. Milton. flow's. Sbakspeare. The desart smild, The sword of Satan with steep force to smite, And paradise was open'd in the wild. Milton. Pote. Descending. 4. To be favourable; to be propitious. 2. To kill; to destroy. Then let me not let pass The servants of David had smitten of BenjaOccasion, which now smiles. Milton. min's men, so that three hundred and threescore Me all too mean for such a task I weet; died. 2 Samuel. Yet, if the sov'reign lady deigns to ile, God smote him for his errour, and he died. .2 Samuel. I'll follow Horace with impetuous heat, And clothe the verse in Spenser's native style. 3. To afflict; to chasten. A scriptural Prior. expression. SMILE. n. s. [from the verb. ] Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor ima1. A slight contraction of the face; a look gine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken Wake. of pleasure or kindness : opposed to 4. To blast. frown. And the flax and the barley was smitten, but I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.-. the wheat and the rye not. Exodus. -Oh that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill. To affect with any passion. S. I wander where the muses haunt, W'otton. Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Milton. Tempt not the Lord thy God, he said, and stood; But Satan smitten with amazement fell. Milton. Milton. See what the charms that smite the simple Sweet intercourse heart, Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow, Not touch'd by nature, and not reach'd by art, To brute denied, and are of love the food. Milt. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, 2. Gay or joyous appearance. Yet whät avail her unexhausted stores, And met congenial, mingling fame with flame. Pope. The heart melteth, and the knees smite to- Nabum. SMILINGLY. adv. [from smiling.] With SM'TER. n. s. [from smite.] He who a look of pleasure. smites. His faw'd heart, I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks Isaiak. 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, to them that pluck off the hair. Burst smilingly. Sbakspeare. Smith. n. s. (rmid, Saxon ; smeth, GerCarneades stopping him smilingly, told him, man ; smid, Dutch; from smitan, we are not so forward to lose good company. Saxon, to beat.] Boyle. 1. One who forges with his hammer ; one TO SMILT. v. n. (corrupted from smelt, who works in metals. or melt.] He doth nothing but talk of his horse, and can Having too much water, many corns will shoe him. I am afraid his mother played false smilt, or have their pulp turned into a substance with a smith. Shakspeare. like thick cream. Mortimer. Lawless man the anvil dares profane, TO SMIRCH. v.a. [from murk or murcky.] And forge that steel by which a man is slain : Which earth at first for ploughshares did afford; Nor yet the smith had learn'd to form a sword. Tan. And with a kind of umber smirch my face. Sbakspeare. The ordinary qualities observable in iron, or Like the shaven Hercules in the smirch worm a diamond, that make their true complex idea, a smith or a jeweller commonly knows better than eaten tapestry. Shakspeare. Locke, TO SMIRK. v. a. To look affectedly soft 2. He that makes or effects any thing. The doves repented, though too late, Become the smiths of their own foolish fate. Dryde Young. Smi'THCRAFT. n. s. [rmidcræft, Sax.] SMIT. The part. pass. of smite. The art of a smith. or kind. |