The parts in glass are evenly spread, but are| not so close as in gold; as we see by the easy admission of light, and by the smalness of the weight Bacon's Nat. Hist. 2. Littleness; want of bulk; minuteness; exility.

Whatsoever is invisible, in respect of the fineness of the body, or the smalness of the parts, or subtilty of the motion, is little enquired. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

The smalness of the rays of light may contribute very much to the power of the agent by which they are refracted. Newton's Opticks. 3. Want of strength; weakness. SMALT. n. s. A beautiful blue substance, produced from two parts of zaffre being fused with three parts common salt, and one part potash. Hill on Fossils.

To make a light purple, mingle ceruse with logwood water; and moreover turnsoil with lac mingled with smalt of bice. Peacham, SMARAGDINE. adj. [smaragdinus, Lat.] Made of emerald; resembling emerald. SMART. n. s. [rmeoɲta, Sax. smert, Dut smarta, Swed.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain.

Sidney.

Then her mind, though too late, by the smart, was brought to think of the disease. 2. Pain, corporal or intellectual.

Mishaps are master'd by advice discreet, And counsel mitigates the greatest smart. F. Queen. It increased the smart of his present sufferings, to compare them with his former happiness. Atterb. To SMART. v. n. [ɲmeoɲtan, Sax. smerten, Dut.]

1. To feel quick lively pain.

When a man's wounds cease to smart, only because he has lost his feeling, they are nevertheless mortal. South.

Human blood, when first let, is mild, and will not make the eye, or a fresh wound, smart. Arbuth. 2. To feel pain of body or mind.

it.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Proverbs.

Let peals of laughter, Codrus! round thee break,
Thou unconcern'd can'st hear the mighty crack.

SMART. adj. [from the noun.]
1. Pungent; sharp; causing smart.

Pope.

Rowe.

SMART. n. s. A fellow affecting briskness | SMEARY. adj. [from smear.] Dawby; adand vivacity. A cant word. hesive. SMARTLY. adv. [from smart.] After a A smeary foam works o'er my grinding jaws, And utmost anguish shakes my lab'ring frame. smart manner; sharply; briskly; vigorously; wittily. SMEATH. n. s. A sea fowl. To SMEETH or SMUTCH. v. a. [rmiðdde, Sax.] To smoke; to blacken with smoke. Not in use.

The art, order, and gravity of those proceed

ings, where short, severe, constant rules were set, and smartly pursued, made them less taken notice Clarendon. SMARTNESS. n. s. [from smart.]

of.

1. The quality of being smart; quickness; vigour.

SMEGMATICK. adj. [ounyua.] Soapy; deDict.

tersive.

To SMELL. v. a. preterite and part smelt. [Of this word the etymology is very obscure. Skinner, the most acute of all etymologists, derives it from smoel warm, Dutch; because smells are increased by heat.]

What interest such a smartness in striking the air hath in the production of sound, may in some measure appear by the motion of a bullet, and that of a switch or other wand, which produce no sound, if they do but slowly pass through the air; whereas, if the one do smartly strike the air, and the other be shot out of a gun, the celerity of their percussions on the air puts it into an un-1. dulating motion, which, reaching the ear, produces Boyle. an audible noise.

2. Liveliness; briskness; wittiness.

I defy all the clubs to invent a new phrase, equal in wit, humour, smartness, or politeness, to my set. Swift SMATCH. n. s. [corrupted from smack.] 1. Taste; tincture; twang.

Thou art a fellow of a good respect; Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in't. Shak. Some nations have a peculiar guttural or nasal smatch in their language. Holder's Elem. of Speech. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste, but mixt with a smatch of a vitriolick.

2. [Cæruleo, Iat.] A bird.

Grew.

2. To talk superficially or ignorantly.
In proper terms, such as men smatter,
When they throw out and miss the matter. Hudib.
Of state affairs you cannot smatter,
Are aukward when you try to flatter. Swift.

To perceive by the nose.

Their neighbours hear the same musick, or smell the same perfumes, with themselves; for here is enough. Collier. 2. To find out by mental sagacity.

The horse smelt him out, and presently a crochet came in his head how to countermine him. L'Estrange. To SMELL. v. n.

1. To strike the nostrils.

The king is but a man as I am the violet smells to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions. Shakesp.

The daintiest smells of flowers are out of those plants whose leaves smell not. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 2. To have any particular scent: with of.

3.

Honey in Spain smelleth apparently of the rosemary or orange, from whence the bee gathereth it. Bacon. A work of this nature is not to be performed upon one leg, and should smell of oil if duly handled. Brown.

If you have a silver saucepan, and the butter smells of smoak, lay the fault upon the coals. Swift. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality.

My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, Will so your accusation overweigh, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny.

A man so smelling of the people's lee, The court receiv'd him first for charity.

ficial or slight knowledge.

Shakesp.

Dryden

Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smel thereto, shall be cut off. Exodus xxx. 38. I had a mind to know, whether they would find out the treasure, and whether smelling enabled them to know what is good for their nourishment. Addison's Spectator.

All other sciences were extinguished during this empire, excepting only a smatter of judicial astrology. Temple. SMATTERER. n. s. [from smatter.] One who has a slight or superficial knowledge. 5. To exercise sagacity.

These few who preserve any rudiments of learning, are, except one or two smatterers, the clergy's friends. Swift. To SMEAR. v. a. [ɲmeɲan, Sax. smeeren, Dut.]

1. To overspread with something viscous and adhesive; to besmear.

If any such be here, that love this painting, Wherein you see me smear'd,

Down with the nose, take the bridge quite away, Of him that, his particular to forefend, Smells from the general weal. Shakesp 1. Power of smelling; the sense of which SMELL. n. s. [from the verb.] the nose is the organ.

Next, in the nostrils she doth use the smell, As God the breath of life in them did give:

So makes he now this pow'r in them to dwell, To judge all airs whereby we breath and live. Davies. 2. Scent; power of affecting the nose.

The sweetest smell in the air is the white double violet, which comes twice a year. Bacon. All sweet smells have joined with them some earthy or crude odours. Bacon. Pleasant smells are not confined unto vegetables, but found in divers animals. Brown's Vulg. Err. There is a great variety of smells, though we have but a few names for them: the smell of a vio let and of musk, both sweet, are as distinct as any two smells. Locke. He who

SME'LLER. n. s. [from smell.] smells.

SME'LLFEAST. n. s. [smell and feast.] Al parasite; one who haunts good tables.

The ant lives upon her own, honestly gotten; whereas e fly is an intruder, and a common smellfeast, at spunges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

SMELT. The preterite and participle pass. of smell.

A cudgel he had felt, And far enough on this occasion smelt. King. SMELT. n.s. [rmelz, Sax.] A small sea fisli.

Of round fish there are brit, sprat, barn, smelts. Carew. To SMELT. v. a. [smalta, Island. smelten, Dut.] To melt ore, so as to extract the

metal.

A sort of earth, of a dusky red colour, found chiefly in iron mines. Some of this earth contains as much iron as to render it worth smelting. Woodward.

SMELTER. n. s. [from smelt.] One who melts ore.

The smelters come up to the assayers.

Woodward on Fossils. To SMERK. v. n. [rmencian, Sax.] To smile wantonly.

Certain gentlemen of the gown, whose aukward, spruce, prim, sneering, and smirking countenances have got good preferment by force of cringing. Swift. 2. SMERKY or SMIRK. adj. Nice; smart; jaunty.

Seest how bragg yon bullock bears,
So smirk, so smooth, his pricked ears?
His horns been as brade as rainbow bent,
His dew-lap as lith as lass of Kent. Spenser.
SME'RLIN. n. s. [cobitis aculeata.] A fish.
Ainsworth.

SMICKET. n. s. [diminutive of smock;
smocket, smicket.] The under-garment
of a woman.

To SMIGHT, for smite.

As when a griffon, seized of his prey,
A dragon fierce encountreth in his flight,
Through widest air making his idle way,
That would his rightful ravin rend away:
With hideous horror both together smight,
And souce so sore that they the heavens affray.
Fairy Queen.

I frown upon him, yet he loves me still. -Oh that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill. Shakesp. Mids. Night's Dream.

No man marks the narrow space 'Twixt a prison and a smile.

Wotton.

To these that sober race of men, whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God, Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame Ignobly to the trains and to the smiles Of these fair atheists.

Sweet intercourse

Milton.

Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow, To brute denied, and are of love the food. Milton.

Gay or joyous appearance.

Yet what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art? Addis SMILINGLY. adv. [from smiling.] With a look of pleasure.

His flaw'd heart, 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly. Shakesp King Lear. Carneades stopping him smilingly, told him, we are not so forward to lose good company. Boyle To SMILT. v. n. [corrupted from smelt, or melt.]

Having too much water, many corns will smilt. or have their pulp turned into a substance like thick cream. Mortimer.

To SMIRCH. v. a. [from murk or murcky.] To cloud; to dusk ; to soil.

I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak. Like the shaven Hercules in the smirch wormeaten tapestry. Shakesp

To SMILE. v. n. [smuylen, Dut,] 1. To contract the face with pleasure; to express kindness, love, or gladness, by To SMIRK. v. a. To look affectedly soft or

the countenance: contrary to frown. The goddess of the mountain smiled upon her votaries, and cheared them in their passage to her palace. Tatler

The smiling infant in his hand shall take The crested basilisk and speckled snake. She smil'd to see the doughty hero slain; But, at her smile, the beau reviv'd again. But when her anxious lord return'd, Rais'd is her head; her eyes are dried: She smiles as William ne'er had mourn'd, She looks as Mary ne'er had died.

Pope.

Pope.

Prior.

kind.

With smiling plenty and fair prosp'rous days. Shak. 2. To kill; to destroy.

For see the morn,

Unconcern'd with our unrest, begins

The servants of David had smitten of Benjamin's men, so that three hundred and threescore died. 2 Sam. ii. 31. 2 Sam. vi.

Her rosy progress smiling.

All things smil'd, Birds on the branch s warbling

Milton. Milton.

God smote him for his errour, and he died.

To SMITE. v. n. To strike; to collide.
The heart melteth, and the knees smite together
Nahum
SMITER. n. s. [from smite.] He who
smites.

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that pluck off the hair. Isa. 1. 6. SMITH. n. s. [rmið, Sax. smeth, Germ smid, Dut. from rmizan, Sax. to beat.] 1. One who forges with his hammer; one who works in metals.

He doth nothing but talk of his horse, and call shoe him. I am afraid his mother played false with a smith. Shakesp

Lawless man the anvil dares prophane, 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. Tate.

The ordinary qualities observable in iron, or a diamond, that make their true complex idea, a smith or a jeweller commonly knows better than a philosopher. Locke.

2. He that makes or effects any thing.

The doves repented, though too late, Become the smiths of their own foolish fate. Dryd SMITHCRAFT. n. s. [rmideræft, Sax.] The art of a smith.

Inventors of pastorage, smithcraft, and musick. Raleigh. SMITHERY. n. s. [from smith.] The shop of a smith.

SMITHING. n. s. [from smith]. Smithing is an art manual, by which an irregular lump, or several lumps, of iron is wrought into an intended shape.

Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. SMITHY. n. s. [rmidde, Sax.] The shop of a smith.

His blazing locks sent forth a crackling sound, And hiss'd like red hot iron within the smithy Dryden

drown'd.

SMITT. n. s. The finest of the clayey ore,

made up into balls, they use for marking of sheep, and call it smitt. Woodward. SMITTEN. The participle passive of smite. Struck; killed; affected with passion.

How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? for if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken. Ecclus We did esteem bim stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isa. liii. 4. By the advantages of a good person and a pleas ing conversation, he made such an impression in her heart as could not be effaced and be was himself no less smitten with Constantia. Addison

SMOCK. n. s. [rmoc, Sax.]

1. The under-garment of a woman; a shift. Her body covered with a light taffeta garment, so cut, as the wrought smock came through it in many places. Sidney.

Fenton.

SMOKE. n. s. [ys-mwg, Welsh; rmec, rmoec, Sax. smoock, Dut.] The visible effluvium, or sooty exhalation, from any thing burning.

She might utter out some smoke of those flames wherewith else she was not only burned, but smothered. Sidney.

Stand off, and let me take the air; Why should the smoke pursue the fair? Cleaveland. He knew tears caused by smoke, but not by flame. Cowley. All involv'd with stench and smoke. Milton. As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment, and the next expires. Prior. Smoke passing through flame cannot but grow red hot, and red hot smoke can appear no other than flame. Newton.

To SMOKE. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To emit a dark exhalation by heat.

When the sun went down, a smoking furnance and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. Gen. xv. 17. His brandish'd steel, Which smok'd with bloody execution. Shakesp. To him no temple stood nor altar smok'd. Milt. For Venus, Cytherea was invok'd, Altars for Pallas to Athena smok'd. 2. To burn; to be kindled. A scriptural term.

Granville.

no smoke.

Tenants with sighs the smokeless tow'rs survey, And turn th' unwilling steed another way. Pope. SMO'KY. adj. [from smoke.]

1. Emitting smoke; fumid.

2.

Victorious to the top aspires,

Dryden. Involving all the wood in smoky fires. Having the appearance or nature of smoke.

London appears in a morning drowned in a black cloud, and all the day after smothered with smoky fog, the consequence whereof proves very offensive to the lungs.

Though inly stung with anger and disdain, Dissembled, and this answer smooth return'd. Milton's Paradise Regained.

rose.

Tickel.

This smooth discourse and mild behaviour oft Conceal a traitor. Addison. He was smooth-tongued, gave good words, and seldom lost his temper. Arbuth. Hist. of J. Bull. The madding monarchs to compose, The Pylian prince, the smooth-speech'd Nestor, To SMOOTH. v. a. [from the adjective.] 1. To level; to make even on the surface. The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil. Isaiah, xli. Smiling she seem'd, and full of pleasing though.t; From ocean as she first began to rise, And smooth'd the ruffled seas, and clear'd the skies. Dryden.

Now on the wings of winds our course we keep; The God hath smooth'd the waters of the deep. Pope's Odyssey.

2. To work into a soft uniform mass. It brings up again into the mouth that which it had swallowed, and chewing it, grinds and smooths it,and afterwards swallows it into another stomach. Ray on the Creation. To make easy; to rid from obstructions. Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day. Pope. To make flowing; to free from harsh

3.

If blast septentrional with brushing wings Sweep up the smoky mists, and vapours damp, Then woe to mortals! Philips.

3.

Noisome with smoke.

Milton.

Missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon. The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even without eminences or cavities. Dryden.

Nor box nor limes, without their use; Smooth-grain'd, and proper for the turner's trade, Which curious hands may carve, and steel with ease invade. Dryden.

2. Evenly spread; glossy.

3.

He for the promis'd journey bids prepare The smooth-hair'd horses and the rapid car. Pope. Equal in pace; without starts or ob

1 must be held a rancorous enemy.

This man's a flatterer? if one be,
So are they all; for every greeze of fortune
Is smooth'd by that below.
To SMOOTHEN. v. a.

[a bad word among mechanicks for smooth] To make even and smooth.

With edged grooving tools they cut down and smoothen the extuberances left. Moxon's Mech Exer.

SMOOTHFACED. adj. [smooth and face.] Mild looking; having a soft air.

O, shall I say I thank you, gentle wife? -Not so, my ford, a twelvemonth and a day; I'll mark no words that smoothfac'd wooers say. Shakesp. Let their heirs Enrich their time to come with smoothfac'd peace, With smiling plenty, and fair prosp'rous days. Shakesp. Richard 11 SMOOTHLY. adv. [from smooth.] 4 Q

665

1. Not roughly; evenly.

2. With even glide.

Hooker.

[from smooth.]

Hay and stra have a very low degree of heat; but yet close and smothering, and which drieth Bacon's Natural History

not.

To be suppressed or kept close.

The advantage of conversation is such, that, for want of company, a man had better talk to a that let his thoughts lie smoking and smotherpost ing. Collier of Friendship.

To

Mildew falleth upon corn, and smutteth it. Bacm SMUT. v. n. To gather must. White red-eared wheat is good for clays, and bears a very good crop, and seldom smuts. Marin, To SMUTCH. v. a. [from smut.] To

black with smoke.

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touch'd it?
Ha' you mark'd but the fall o' the snow.
Betore the soil hath smutch'd it?
Ben Jonson's Underwood

asperity.

A countryman feeding his flock by the seaside, it was so delicate a fine day, that the smoothness of the water tempted him to set up for a merchant.

L'Estrange.

The nymph is all into a laurel gone, The smoothness of her skin remains alone. Dryden. 2. Softness or mildness on the palate.

Fallacious drink! ye honest men, beware, Nor trust its smoothness; the third circling glass Suffices virtue.

Philips.

3. Sweetness and softness of numbers. As French has more fineness and smoothness at this time, so it had more compass, spirit, and force in Montaigne' age. Temple. Virgil, though smooth, where smoothness is required, is so far from affecting it, that he rather disdains it; frequently using synalephas, and concluding his sense in the middle of his verse. Dryd. 4. Blandness and gentleness of speech.

She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness, Her very silence, and her patience,

Speak to the people, and they pity her. Shakesp. SMOTE. The preterite of smite.

Death with a trident smote.

SMOULDRY.

out vent.

the stroke.

None can breathe, nor see, nor hear at will, Through smouldry cloud of duskish stinking smoke, That th' only breath him daunts who hath escap'd Fairy Queen In some close pent room it crept along, And, smould ring as it went, in silence fed; Till th' infant monster, with devouring strong, Walk'd boldly upright with exalted head. Dryden. SMUG. adj. [smuck dress; smucken to dress; Dut.] Nice; spruce; dressed with affectation of niceness, but without elegance.

There I have a bankrupt for a prodigal, who dares scarce shew his head on the Rialto; a beggar, that used to come so smug upon the mart. Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. He who can make your visage less horrid, and your person more smug, is worthy some good reception. Spectator. To SMUG. v. a. To adorn; to spruce. My men,

In Circe's house, were all, in severall baine Studiously sweeten'd, smug'd with oile, and deckt With in and out weeds. Chapman.

To SMUGGLE. v. a. [smockelen. Dut.] To import or export goods without paying the customs. SMUGGLER n. s. [from smuggle.] A wretch who, in defiance of justice and the laws, imports or exports goods either contraband or without payment of the

customs.

SMU'GLY. ady. [from smug.] Neatly; sprucely.

Lilies and roses will quickly appear, And her face will look wond'rous smugly. Gay. SMU'GNESS. n. s. [from smug.] Spruce

ness; neatness.

SMOTHER. n. s. [from the verb.]
1. A state of suppression. Not in use.

This unfortunate prince, after a long smother of discontent, and hatred of many of his nobility and people, breaking forth at times into seditions, was at last distressed by them. Bacon A man were better relate himself to a statue, than suffer his thoughts to pass in smother Bacon. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should procure to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. Bacon's Essays.

2. Smoke; thick dust.

Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, From tyrant duke into a tyrant brother. Shakesp. Where you disorder'd heap of ruin lies, Stones rent from stones, where clouds of dust arise, Amid that smother Neptune holds his place. Dryden's Eneid.

mildew.

Farmers have suffered by smutty wheat, when such will not sell for above five shillings a bushel ; whereas that which is free from smut will sell for ten. Mortimer's Husbandry.

3. Obscenity.

To SMUT. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To stain; to mark with soot or coal. He is far from being smutted with the soil of atheism. More.

A fuller had invitation from a collier to live

with him: he gave him a thousand thanks; but, says he, as fast as I make any thing clean, you'll be smutting it again. L'Estrange. The inside is so smutted with dust and smoke, that neither the marble, silver, nor brass works shew themselves. Addison.

I am wonderfully pleased to see my tenants play their innocent tricks, and smutting one anoAddison.

ther.

[from smutty.]

My vines and peaches, upon my best south walls, were apt to a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and upon their fruits, which were good for nothing. Temple

2. Obsceneness.
SMUTTY. adj. [from smut]
1. Black with smoke or coal.
The smutty grain,

With sudden blaze diffus'd, inflames the air. Mig The smutty wainscot full of cracks. Swift. He was a smutty dog yesterday, and cust near two hours to wash the ink off his face. Pope. 2. Tainted with mildew.

Smutty corn will sell dearer at one time than the clean at another. Loe e

3. Obscene; not modest.

The place is a censure of a profane and smutty Collier. passage in the Old Bachelor. SNACK. n. s. [from snatch.] A share; a part taken by compact. If the master gets the better ou't, they come in for their snack. L'Estrange. For four times talking, if one piece thou take, That must be cantled,and the judge go snack. Dryd. All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks." Pope. SNA'COT. n. s. [acus, Lat.] A fish.

Ainsworth. [snavel, Dut. the nose.] crosses the nose.

SNA'FFLE. n. s.
A bridle which
The third o' th' world is yours, which with a
snaffle

You may pace easy; but not such a wife. Shakesp. Sooth him with praise; This, from his weaning, let him well be taught, And then betimes in a soft snaffle wrought. "Dryden's Georgicks. To SNA'FFLE. v. a. [from the noun.] To bridle; to hold in a bridle; to hold; to manage.

SNAG. n. s. [Of this word I know not the etymology or original] 1. A jag, or sharp protuberance. The one her other leg had lame, Which with a staff, all full of little snags, She did disport; and Impotence her name. FairyQ The coat of arms,

Now on a naked snag in triumph born, Was hung on high. Dryden's Æneid. 2. A tooth left by itself, or standing beyond the rest; a tooth, in contempt.