man, inventors of pastorage, smithcraft, and mu He knew tears caused by smoke, but not by sick. Raleigh. flame. Cowley, SHITHERY, 11. s. [from smith.] The shop All involv'd with stench and smoke. Milton. of a smith. As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment, and the next expires. Prior. SaiI'THING. 1. s. [from smith.] An art Smoke passing through flame cannot but grow manual, by which an irregular lump, or red hot, and red hot smoke can appear no other several lumps, of iron is wrought into than flame. Newton, an intended shape. . To SMOKE. V. n. (from the noun.] SMITHEO. 4.3ipmidde, Saxon.) The 1. To emit a dark exhalation by heat. shop of a smith. When the sun went down, a smoking furnace His blazing locks sent forth a crackling sound, and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. And hiss 'd lile red hot iron within the smitby Genesis drown'd. Dryden. His brandish'd steel, SMITT. n. s. The finest of the clayey ore, · Which smok'd with bloody execution. Shaksp. made up into balls, they use for marking To him no temple stood nor altar smok’d. Milton. of sheep, and call it smitt. Woodward. For Venus, Cytherea was invok'd, SMITTEN. (part. pass. of smite.] Struck ; Altacs for Pallas to Athena smok'd. Granville. killed ; affected with passion. 2. To burn; to be kindled. A scriptural, 1 How agree the kettle and the earthen pot to term. gether? for if the one be smitten against the uther, it shall be broken. Ecclesiasticus. The anger of the Lord shall smoke against that Deuteronomy. We did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and atticted. Isaiab. 3. To move with such swiftness as to kin. By the advantages of a good person and a dle; to move very fast, so as to raise pleasing conversation, he inade such an im- dust like smoke. pression in her heart as could not be effaced ; Aventinus drives his chariot round; and he was himself no less smitten with Con- Proud of his steeds he smokes along the field; stantia. Addison. His father's hydra fills the ample shield. Dryd. SMOCK. n. s. (rmoc, Saxon.] With hasty hand the ruling reins he drew, 1. The under garment of a woman; a He lash'd the coursers, and the coursers flew ; Beneath the bending yoke alike they field shift. Her body covered with a light taffeta garment, Their equal pace, and smok'd along the field. Popa 50 cut, as the wrought smuck came through it in many places. Sidney; 4. To smell or hunt out. He hither came t'observe and smoke What courses other riskeis took. Hadibras. This look of thine will hurl my soul from heav'n. I began to smoke that they were a parcel of Sbakspeare. mummers, and wondered that none of the MidTheir apparel was linen breeches, and over dlesex justices took care to lay some of them by the heels. that a smock close girt unto them with a towel. Addison, Sandys. 5. To use tobacco. Though Artemisia talks by fits 6. To suffer; to be punished. Of councils, classicks, fathers, wits ; Maugre all the world will I keep safe, Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke: Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Yet in some things, methinks, she fails ; Shakspeare. 'Twere well if she would pair her nails, To SMOKE. v. a. And wear a cleaner smock. Swift. 1. To scent by smoke ; to medicate by 2. Smock is used in a ludicrous kind of smoke, or dry in smoke. composition for any thing relating to Frictions of the back-bone with fannel, smoked women. with penetrating aromatical substances, have At smock- reason, matron, I believe you, proved effectual. Arbutbnot, And if I were your husband; but when I 2. To smell out; to find out. Trust to your cobwish bosoms any other, He was first smok'd by the old lord; when his Let me there die a fiy, and feast yon spider. disguise and he is parted, what a sprat you shall Ben Jonson. find him! Sbakspeare. Plague on his smock-loyalty! Tom Tattle passes for an impertinent, and I hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted, Will Trippet begins to be smoked, in case I conMade sour and senseless, turn’d to whey, by tinue this paper. Spectator, SHOCKFaced. adj. [smock and face.) 3. Ten smeer to ridicule to the face. Smoke the fellow Congreve, Palefaced ; maidenly. TO SMOKE-DRY. v. a. (smoke and dry.] Old chiefs, reflecting on their former deeds, To dry by smoke. Smoke-dry the fruit, but not if you plant them. Mortimer, And leave young smockfac'd beaux to guard the Fenton. SMO'KER. N. s. [from smoke.] SMOKE. n. s. ( 35-mwg, Welsh ; smec, 1. One that dries or perfumes by smoke. 2. One that uses tobacco. smoec, Saxon, smoock, Dutch.] The visible effluvium, or sooty exhalation, SMOKELESS. adj. (from smoke.) Having from any thing burning. no smoke. She might utter out some smoke of those flames Tenants with sighs the smokeless tow'rs survey, wherewith else she was not only burned, but And turn th' unwilling steed another way, Pope, smothered. Sidney. SMO'KY. adj. (from smoke.] Stand off, and let me take the air ; 1. Emitting smoke; fumaid. Why should the smoke pursue the fair? Victorious to the top aspires, Year. m 2 2. Having the appearance or nature of Smiling she seem'd, and full of pleasing smoke. thought, From ocean as she first began to rise, And smootb'd the ruffled seas, and clear'd the black cloud, and all the day after smothered skies. Dryder. with smeky fog, the consequence whereof proves very offensive to the lungs. Harvey. Now on the wings of winds our course we keep; The God hath smootb'd the wators of the deep, Pope. 2. To work into a soft uniform mass. 3. Noisome with smoke. O he's as tedious It brings up again into the mouth that which it had swallowed, and chewing it, grinds and As a tir'd horse, or as a railing wife ; smootbs it, and afterwards swallows it into anWorse than a smoky house. Slakspeare. other stomach. Courtesy Ray. Is sooner found in lowly sheds, 3. To make easy ; to rid from obstrucWith smoky rarters, than in tap'stry halls tions. And courts of princes. Milton. Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, Morpheus, the humble god, that dwells And smooth my passage to the realms of day. In cottages and smoky cells, Popes Hates gilded roofs and beds of down; 4. To make flowing ; to free from harshAnd, though he fears no prince's frown, ness. Tlies from the circle of a crown. Denbam, In their motions harmony divine Smooth. adj. [rme8, smoed, Saxon ; So smooths her charning tones. Milien, nwyth, Welsh.] All your muse's softer art display ; 1. Even on the surface; not rough; level; Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay; having no asperities. Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine, Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man, and And sweetly flow thro' all the royal line. Popea I am a smooib man. Genesis. 5. To palliate ; to soften. Had it been a stranger, not my child, On che dry smooth-shaven green, To smooth his fault, I would have been more To behold the wandering moon mild. Sbakspeare. Riding near her highest noon. Milton. 6. To caim ; to mollify. The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to Now breathe we, lords; good fortune bids us the touch, and even without eminences or cavi. pause, ties. Dryden. And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful Nor box nor limes, without their use; looks. Shakspeare, Smooth-grain’d, and proper for the turner'strade, Each perturbation smootb'd with outward calm. Which curious hands may carve, and steel with Milton. ease invade. Dryden. 7. To ease. 2. Evenly spread ; glossy, Restor'd it soon will be ; the means prepar'd, He for the promis'd journey bids prepare The difficulty smootb'd, the danger shar'd: The smooth-hair'd horses and the rapid car. Pope. Be but yourself. Drydru. 3. Equal in pace; without starts or ob- 8. To flatter ; to soften with blandishstruction. ments. By the hand he took me rais'd, Because I cannot flatter and look fair, And over fields and waters, as in air, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Smooth-sliding without step. Milton. Duck with French nods, and apish courtesy, The fair-hair'd queen of love I must be held a rancorous enemy. Shakspeare. Descends smooth-gliding from the courts above. This man 's a fiatt'rer? if one be, Pope. So are they all; for every greeze of fortune 4. Gently flowing. Is smootb’d by that below. Sbakspeare. Smootb Adonis from his rock TO SMO'OTHEN. v. a. [a bad word among Ran purple to the sea. Milton. mechanicks for smooth.] To make even 5. Voluble ; not harsh ; soft. and smooth. When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay. With edged grooving tools they cut down and smoothen the extuberances left. Moxor. So, Dick adept, tuck back thy hair ; And I will pour into thy ear SMO'OTHFACED. adj. (smooth and face.] Remarks which none did e'er disclose Mild looking ; having a soft air. In smooth-pac'd verse or hobbling prose. Prior. O, shall I say I thank you, gentle wife? 6. Bland ; mild ; adulatory: -Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day, The subtle fiend, I'll mark no words that smoothfac'd wooers say. Though inly stung with anger and disdain, Sbakspeare. Dissembled, and this answer smooth return'd. Let their heirs Enrich their time to come with smeethfaid This smooth discourse and mild behaviour oft peace, Conceal a traitor. Addison. With smiling plenty, and fair prosp'rous days. He was smooth-tongued, gave good words, and Sbakspeare, seldom lost his temper. Arbuthnot. Smo'OTHLY. adv. [from smootb.] The madding monarchs to compose, 1. Not roughly; evenly. 'The Pylian prince, the smootb-speech'd Nestor, 2. With even glide. Tickel. The musick of that murm'ring spring To SMOOTH. v. a. (from the adjective.] Is not so mournful as the strains you sing; 1. To level; to make even on the surface. Nor rivers winding through the vales belois The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and So sweetly warble, or so smoothly flow. Pope. he that smootherb with the hammer him that S, Without obstruction ; easily; readily. smote the anvil, Isaiab. Had Joshua been mindful, the fraud of the rose. Gibeonites could not so smoothly have past un, Where yon disorder'd heap of ruin lies, espied, till there was no help. Hooker. Stones rent from stones, where clouds of dust arise, 4. With soft and bland language. Amid that smother Neptune holds his place. SMO'OTHNESS. n. s. [from smooth.] Dryder. 1. Evenness on the surface; freedom from The greater part enter only like mutes to fill asperity. the stage, and spend their taper in smoke and A countryman feeding his flock by the sea- smotber. Collier. side, it was so delicate a fine day, that the smooth- To SMOʻTHER. v. n. (from the noun.] n ness of the water tempted him to set up for a 1. To smoke without vent. merchant. L'Estrange. Hay and straw have a very low degree of · The nymph is all into a laurel gone, heat; but yet close and smothering, and which The smoothness of her skin remains alone. Dryd. drieth not. Васөп. 2. Softness or mildness on the palate. 1. To be suppressed or kept close. Fallacious drink! ye honest men beware, The advantage of conversation is such, that, Nor trust its smoothness; the third circling glass for want of company, a man had better talk to Suffices virtue. Pbilips. a post than lec his thoughts lie smoking and 3. Sweetness and softness of numbers. smotbering. Collier. As French has more fineness and smoothness SMO'ULUERING.? (This word seems a at this time, so it had more compass, spirit, and force, in Montaigne's age. SMO'ULDRY. S participle; but I know not whether the verb smoulder be in Virgil, though smcoth, where smoothness is required, is so far from affecting it, that he ra- use : smozan, Sax. to smother; smoel, ther disdains it; frequently using synalephas, Dutch, hot.) Burning and smoking and concluding his sense in the middle of his without vent. verse. Dryden. None can breathe, nor see, nor hear at will, 4. Blandress and gentleness of speech. Through smouldry cloud of duskish stinking She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness, smoke, Her very silence, and her patience, That th' only breath him daunts who hath ese Speak to the people, and they pity her. Shaksp. cap'd the stroke. Fairy Queen. SMOTE. The preterit of smite. In some close pent room it crept along, Death with a trident smote. Milton. And, smould'ring as it went, in silence fed; TO SMO'THER. v. a. (rmoran, Sax.] Till th'infant monster, with devouring strong. 1. To suffocate with smoke, or by exclu. Walk'd boldly upright with exalted head. Dryd. sion of the air. SMUG. adj. (smuck, dress ; smucken, to She might give a passage to her thoughts, and dress; Dutch.] Nice; spruce; dressed so as it were utter out some smoke of those with affectation of niceness, but withfames, wherewith else she was not only burned out elegance. but smctbered. Sidney: There I have a bankrupt for a prodigal, who We smotber'd dares scarce' shew his head on the Rialto; a begThe most replenished sweet work of nature, gar, that used to come so smug upon the mart. That from the prime creation e'er she fram'd. Sbakspeare. Sbakspeare. He who can make your visage less horrid, and We are enow yet living in the field, your person more smug, is worthy some good To smotber up the English in our throngs. Shak. reception, Spectator. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, TO SMUG. v. a. To adorn; to spruce. Sees the dry desart all around him rise, My men, In Cince's house, were all, in severall baine Studiously sweeten’d, smug'd with oile, and decki 2. To suppress. With in and outweeds. Chapman. Lewd and wicked custom, beginning perhaps TO SMU'GGLE. v. a. (smockelen, Dutch.] at the first amongst few, afterwards spreading into greater multitudes, and so continuing; from To import or export goods without time may be of force, even in plain things, to paying the customs. sectber the light of natural understanding, SMU'GGLER. n. s. [from smuggle.] A Hooker. wretch, who, in defiance of justice and She was warmed with the graceful appearance of the hero; she smothered those sparkles out of the laws, imports or exportsgoods either decency, but conversation blew them up into a contraband or without payment of the flame. Dryden. customs. SMOʻTHER. n. s. [from the verb.] SMU'GLY. adv. [from smug.] Neatly; 1. A state of suppression. Not in use. sprucely. Lilies and roses will quickly appear, This unfortunate prince, after a long-smother of discontent, and hatred of many of his nobility And her face will look wond'rous smugly. Gayi and people, breaking forth at times into seditions, SMU'GNESS. n. s. [from smug.] Spruce was at last distressed by them. Bacon, ness; neatness without elegance. A man were better relate himself to a statue, SMUT. n. s. [rmitta, Saxon ; smette, than suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. Dutch.] Bacon. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more 1. A spot made with soot or coal. than to know little; and therefore men should 2. Must or blackness gathered on corn; procure to know more, and not to keep their mildew. suspicions in smatber. Bacon. Farmers have suffered by smutty wheat, when 2. Smoke ; thick dust. such will not sell for above five shillings a bushel; Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, whereas thai which is free from smut will sell for From tyrant duke into a tyrans brother. Mortimer. Slakspeare. 3. Obscenity. ten. may'd. case. SNA T, SMUT. v. a. (from the noun.] SNAG. ». 5. [Of this word I know not 1. To stain; to mark with soot or coal. thie etymology or original.] He is far from being smutted with the soil of 1. A jay, or sharp protuberance. atheism. Niore. The one her other leg had lame, A fuller bad invitation from a collier to live Which with a statl, all full of little snags, with him : he gave him a thousand thanks; but, She did disport; and Impotence her name. says he, as fast as I make any thing clean, vou 'll be sm tting it again. L'Estrange. Fairy Queen, The coat of arms, Now on a naked snag in triumph born, Dryden. shew themselves. Addison. 2. A tooth left by itself, or standing beIath wonderfully pleased to see my tenants play their innocent tricks, and smutting one an yond the rest ; a tooth, in contempt. in China none hold women sweet, other. Addison, Except their snags are black as jet : 2. To taint with mildew. King Chihu put nine queens to death, Convict on statute, iv'ry tceth. Prior. Bacon. SNAGGED. adj. [from snag.] Full of TO SMUT. V.n. To gather must. SNA'GGY, snags ; full of sharp probears a very good crop, and seldom smuts. tuberances; shooting into sharp points. Mortimer. His stalking steps are stay'd TO SMUTCH. v. a. [from smut.] To black Upon a suggy oak, which he had torn Out of his mother's bowels, and it made with smoke. His mortal mace, wherewith his foemen he disHave you seen but a bright lily grow, Spenser, Naked men belabouring one another with snegoed sticks, or dully falling together by the Alare. SMU'TTIEY. adv. [from smutty.] SNAIL. . s. [rnæg!, Saxon ; snigel, 1. Blackiy ; smokily. Dutch.) 2. Obscenely. 1. A slimy animal which creeps on plants, SMU'ITINESS. n. s. [from smutty.] some with shells on their backs; the I. Soil from smoke. emblem of slowness. My vines and peaches, upon my best south I can tell why a snail has a house.- Why?-walls, were apt to a soot or smit:nces upon their Why, to put 's head in; not to give it away to leaves and upon their fruits, which were good his daughters, and leave his horns without a for nothing. Terpie. Sbakspeare. 2. Obsceneness. Fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay; Smu'try. adj. [from smut.] Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. 1. Black with smoke or coal. Sbakspeare. The smutty grain, The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder: With sudden blaze diffus'd, intiames the air. Snail slow in profit, but he sleeps by day Milton. More than the wild cat. Sbakspeare. The smutty wainscot full of cracks. Szeift. Seeing the snail, which every where doch roam, He was a smity dog yesterduy, and cost me Carrying his own house still, still is at home, near two hours to wash the ink of his face. Pope. Follow, for he is easy-pac'd, this snail 2. Tainted with mildew. Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol. Smutty corn will sell dearer at one time than Donne the clean at another. Locke. There may be as many ranks of beings in the 3. Obscene; not modest. invisible world superior to us, as we ourselves The place is a censure of a profane . id smutty are superior to all the ranks of being beneath us passage in the Old Bachelor. Collier. in this visible world, even though we descend below the snail and the oyster. Waits. SNACK. N. s. [from snatch.] A share; a 2. A name given to a drone, from the slow part taken by compact. motion of a snail. If the master gets the better on 't, they come in for their snack. L'Estrange. Why prat'st thou to thyself, and answer'st not? For four times talking, if one piece thou take, Dromio, thou dione, thou snail, thou slug, thou That must be cantled, and the judge go snack. sot! Sbakspeare. Dryden. SNAIL-CLAVER or Snail-trefoil, n. s. (triAll my demurs but double his attacks; folium, Lat.) An herb. Ainsuu At last he whispers, “ Do, and we go snacks.” SNAKE. n. s. [rnaca, Sax. snake, Dutch] SNA'COT. n. s. [acus, Lat.) A fish. A serpent of the oviparous kind, distinAinsworth. guished from a viper. The snake's bite is harmless. Snake in poetry is a geneSXA'FFLE. 1. so [snavel, Dutch, the ral name for serpent. nose.) A bridle which crosses the nose. Glo'ster's shew beguiles him; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a As the snake, roll'd in a flow'ry bank, snaffie With shining chequer'd slough, doth sting a child, You may pace easy; but not such a wife. Sbaks. Sooth him with praise; That for the beauty thinks it excellent. Sbaksp. We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it: This from his weaning let him well be taught, She 'll close and be herself; whilst our poor And then betimes in a soft snaffle wrought. malice Dryden. Remains in danger of her former teeth. Sbakıp. To SNA'FFLE. v. a. (from the noun.] To The parts must have their outlines in waves, bridle; to hold in a bridles to hold ; to resembling the gliding of a snake upon the managi, ground: they must be smooth and even. Dryde a a Wotton. L'Estrange Nor chalk, nor crumbling stones, the food of 3. To bite. snakes, A gentleman passing by a coach, one of the That work in hollow earth their winding tracks. horses snapt off the end of his tinger. Wiseman. Dryden. All mungrel curs bawl, snarl, and snap, where SNA'KEROOT. n. s. [snake and root.) A the foe flies before him. L'Estrange. species of birthwort growing in Vir- . A notion generally received, that a lion is danginia and Carolina. gerous to alī women who are not virgins, may SNA KESHEAD Iris. n. s. (hermodactylus, have given occasion to a foolish report, that my lion's jaws are so contrived as to snap the hands Latin.) A plant. of any of the female sex, who are not thus quaThe characters are: it hath a lily- lified. Addison, shaped flower, of one leaf, shaped ex- He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, actly like'an iris; but has a tuberose root, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws. divided into two or three dugs, like Gay. oblong bulbs. Miller. 4. To catch suddenly and unexpectedly. Sir Richard Graham tells the marquis he would SNA'KEWEED or Bistort. n. s. [bistorta, snap. one of the kids, and make some shift to carLatin.) A plant. ry him close to their lodgings. SNA'KEWOOD. n. s. [from snake and Some with a noise and greasy light wood.] Are snapt, as men catch larks at night. Butler. What we call snakewoed is properly the small You should have thought of this before you er branches of the root of a tall straight tree, was taken; for now you are in no danger to be growing in the island of Timor, and other parts snapt singing again. of the East. It has no remarkable smell; but Did I not see you, rascal, did I not, is of an intensely bitter taste. The Indians are When you lay snug to snap young Damon's of opinion, that it is a certain remedy for the goat? Dryden. bite of the hooded serpent, and from thence its Belated seem on watch to lie, name of lignum colubrinum, or snakewood. We And snap some cully passing by. Swift. very seldom use it. Hill. 5. (snappen, Dutch.] To treat with sharp Sna'k Y. adj. (from snake.] language: 1. Serpentine ; belonging to a snake; re- Capoch'd your rabbins of the synod, sembling a snake. And snapp'd their canons with a why not. Hudibras. Venomous tongue, tipt with vile adder's sting, Of that self kind with which the furies fell A surly ill-bred lord, Spenser. Granville. The crooked arms Meander bow'd with his so To SNAP. V. n. snaky food, Resign’d for conduct the choice youth of all their 1. To break short ; to fall asunder; to mortal brood. Chapman. break without bending. The true lovers knot had its original`from Note the ship's sicknesses; the mast modus Herculaneus, or Hercules's knot, resem- Shak'd with an ague, and the hold and waist bing the snaky complication in the caduceus, or With a salt dropsy clogg'd; and our tacklings rod of Hermés. Brown. Snapping, like to too high-stretch'd treble strings. So to the coast of Jordan he directs Donne. His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. Milton. The backbone is divided into so many verte2. Having serpents. bres for commodious bending, and not one inLook, look unto this snaky rod, tire rigid bone, which, being of that length, would And stop your ears against the charming god. have been often in danger of snapping in sunder. Ben Jonson. Ray. In his hand If your steel be too hard, that is, too brittle, He took caduceus, his snaky wand. Hub. Tale. it be a spring, it will not bow; but with the least What was that snaky-headed gorgon shield bending it will snap asunder. Moxon. That wise Minerva wore, unconquer'd virgin! The makers of these needles should give them Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd a due temper: for if they are too soft, they will stone? Milton. bend; and if they are too brittle, they snap. His Aying hat was fasten’d on his head; Sbarp. Wings on his heels were hung, and in his hand 2. To make an effort to bite with eagerHe holds the virtue of his snaky wand. Dryden. ness. To SNAP. v. a. (the same with knap.] If the young dace be a bait for the old pike, I 1. To break at once; to break short. see no reason but I may snap at him. Shaksp. If the chain of necessity be no stronger, but We snap at the bait without ever dreaming of that it may be snapped so easily in sunder; if his the hook that goes along with it. L'Estrange. will was no otherwise determined from without himself, but only by the signification of your de At people's heels with frothy chaps. Swift. sire, and my modest intreaty, then we may con- SNAP. n. s. [from the verb. ] clude, huroán affairs are not always governed by 1. The act of breaking with a quick mo. absolute necessity; Bramhall against Hobbes. tion. Light is broken like a body, as when 't is snapped in pieces by a tougher body. Digby. 2. A greedy fellow. Dauntless as death, away he walks; He had no sooner said out his say, but rises Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks; a cunning swap, then at the board. L'Estrange. Searches the parlour, chamber, study, 3. A quick eager bite. Nor stops till he has culprit's body. Prior. With their bills, thwarted crosswise at the end, 2. To strike with a knacking noise, or they would cut an apple in two at one snap. Carew. sharp sound. The bowzy sire 4. A catch; a theft. First shook from out his pipe the seeds of fire, SNA'PDRAGON or Calf's Srout. n. s. [an., Then snapt his box. Duncrad, tirrhinum, Latin.] Towzer snaes up |