SMALL, adjective

1. Slender; thin; fine; of little diameter; hence in general, litte in size or quantity; not great; as a small house; a small horse; a small farm; a small body; small particles.

2. Minute; slender; fine; as a small voice.

3. Little in degree; as small improvement; small acquirements; the trouble is small Ther arose no small stir about that way. Acts 9:1.

4. Being of little moment, weight or importance; as, it is a small matter or thing; a small subject.

5. Of little genius or ability; petty; as a small poet or musician.

6. Short; containing little; as a small essay.

7. Little in amount; as a small sum; a small price.

8. Containing little of the principal quality, or little strenghth; weak; as small beer.

9. Gentle; soft; not loud. I Kings 19.

10. Mean; base; unworthy.

SMALL, noun The small or slender part of a thing; as the small of the leg or of the back.

SMALL, verb transitive To make little or less. [Not in use.]

SMALL'AGE, noun A plant of the genus Apium, water parsley.

SMALL'ISH, adjective Somewhat small.

SMALL'NESS, noun Littleness of size or extent; littleness of quantity; as the smallness of a fly or of a horse; the smallness of a hill.

2. Littleness in degree; as the smallness of trouble or pain.

3. Littleness in force or strength; weakness; as smallness of mind or intellectual powers.

4. Fineness; softness; melodiousness; as the smallness of a female voice.

5. Littleness in amount of value; as the smallness of a sum.

6. Littleness of importance; inconsideratbleness; as the smallness of an affair.

SMALLY, adverb small'-ly. In a little quantity or degree; with minuteness. [Little used.]

SMALT, noun A beautiful blue glass of cobalt; flint and potash fused together.

SMAR'AGD, noun The emerald.

SMARAG'DINE, adjective [Latin Smaragdinus.] Pertaining to emerald; consisting of emerald, or resembling it; of an emerald green.

SMARAG'DITE, noun A mineral; called also green diallage.

SMAR'IS, noun A fish of a dark green color.

SM'ART, noun [This word is probably formed on the root of Latin amarus, bitter, that is, sharp.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as the smart of bodily punishment.

2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as the smart of affliction.

SM'ART, verb intransitive

1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayeene pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart

2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; as, to smart under sufferings.

3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Proverbs 11:15.

SM'ART, adjective

1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as smart pain or sufferings.

3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as a smart skirmish.

4. Brisk; fresh; as a smart breeze.

5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as a smart reply; a smart saying.

6. Brisk; vivacious; as a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

SM'ART, noun A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.

SM'ARTEN, verb transitive To make smart. [Not in use.]

SM'ARTLE, verb intransitive To waste away. [Not in use.]

SM'ARTLY, adverb

1. With keen pain; as, to ake smartly

2. Briskly; sharply; wittily.

3. Vigorously; actively.

SM'ARTNESS, noun

1. The quality of being smart or pungent; poignancy; as the smartness of pain.

2. Quickness; vigor; as the smartness of a blow.

3. Liveliness; briskness; vivacity; wittiness; as the smartness of a reply or of a phrase.

SMASH, verb transitive [probably mash, with a prefix.] To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here every thing is broken and smashed to pieces. [Vulgar.]

SMATCH, noun [corrupted from smack.]

1. Taste; tincture. [Not in use or vulgar.]

2. A bird.

SMAT'TER, verb intransitive [It contains the elements of mutter.]

1. To talk superficially or ignorantly. Of state affairs you cannot smatter

2. To have a slight taste, or a slight superficial knowledge.

SMAT'TER, noun Slight superficial knowledge.

SMAT'TERER, noun One who has only a slight superficial knowledge.

SMAT'TERING, noun A slight superficial knowledge. [This is the word commonly used.]

SMEAR, verb transitive

1. To overspread with any thing unctuous, viscous or adhesive; to besmear; to daub; as, to smear any thing with oil, butter, pitch, etc.

2. To soil; to contaminate; to pollute; as smeared with infamy.

SMEAR, noun A fat oily substance; ointment. [Little used.]

SME'ARED, participle passive Overspread with soft or oily matter; soiled.

SME'ARING, participle present tense Overspreading with any thing soft and oleaginous; soiling.

SME'ARY, adjective That smears or soils; adhesive. [Little used.]

SMEATH, noun A sea fowl.

SMEC'TITE, noun An argillaceous earth; so called from its property of taking grease out of cloth, etc.

SMEETH, verb transitive To smole. [Not in use.]

SMEGMAT'IC, adjective Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.

SMELL, verb transitive pret and participle passive smelled, smelt. [I have not found this word in any other language.] TO perceive by the nose, or by the olfactory nerves; to have a sensation excited in certain organs of the nose by particular qualities of a body, which are transmitted in fine particles, often form a distance; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

TO smell OUT, is a low phrase signifying to find out by sagacity.

TO smell A RAT, is a low phrase signifying to suspect strongly.

SMELL, verb intransitive

1. To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or particualr scent; followed by of; as to smell of smoke; to smell of musk.

2. To have a particular tincuture or smack or any quality; as, a report smells of calumny. [Not elegant.]

3. To practice smelling. Exodus 30:38.

4. To exercise sagacity.

SMELL, noun

1. The sense of faculty by which through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves; or the faculty of perceiving by the organs of the nose; one of the five senses. In some species of beasts, the smell is remark able acute, particularly in the canine species.

2. Scent; odor; the quality of bodies which affects the olfactory organs; as the smell of mint; the smell of geranium. The sweetest smell in the air is that of the white double violet.

SMELL'ED, SMELT, preterit tense and participle passive of smell.

SMELL'ER, noun One that smells.

SMELL'FEAST, noun [smell and feast.] One that is apt to find and frequent good tables; an epicure; a parasite.

SMELT. [See Smelled.]

SMELT, noun A small fish that is very delicate food. But in Europe, a fish of the truttaceous kind, so names from its peculiar smell.

SMELT, verb transitive To melt, an ore, for the purpose of separating the metal from extraneous substances.

SMELT'ED, participle passive Melted for the extraction of the metal.

SMELT'ER, noun One the melts ore.

SMELT'ERY, noun A house or place for smelting ores.

SMELT'ING, participle present tense Melting, as ore.

SMELT'ING, noun The operation of melting ores for the purpose of extracting the metal.

SMERK, noun An affected smile.

SMERK, adjective Nice; smart; janty. So smerk so smooth he prick'd his ears.

SMER'LIN, noun A fish.

SMEW, noun An aquatic fowl, the Mergus albellus.

SMICK'ER, verb intransitive To smerk; to look amorously or wantonly.

SMICK'ERING, participle present tense Smerking; smiling affectedly.

SMICK'ERING, noun An affected smile or amorous look.

SMICK'ET, noun Dim. of smock. [Not used.]

SMID'DY, noun A smithery or smith's workshop. [Not in use.]

SMIGHT, for smile, in Spenser, is a mistake.

SMILE, verb intransitive

1. To contract the features of the face in such a manner as to express pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness; the contrary to frown. The smiling infant in his hand shall take the crested basilisk and speckled snake. She smil'd to see the doughty hero slain.

2. To express slight contempt by a smiling liik, implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. 'Twas what I said to Craggs and Child, who prais'd my modesty, and smil'd.

3. To look gay and joyous; or to have an appearance to excite joy; as smiling spring; smiling plenty. The desert smil'd, and paradise was open'd in the wild.

4. To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance. May heaven smile on out labors.

SMILE, verb transitive To awe with a contemptuous smile

SMILE, n,

1. A peculiar contraction of the features of the face, which naturally expresses pleasure, moderate joy, approbation or kindness; opposed to frown. Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles.

2. Gay or joyous appearance; as the smiles of spring.

3. Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as the smiles of providence.

A smile OF CONTEMPT, a look resembling that of pleasure, but usually or often it can be distinguished by an accompanying archness, or some glance intended to be understood.

SMI'LER, noun One who smiles.

SMI'LING, participle present tense Having a smile on the countenance; looking joyous or gay; looking propitious.

SMI'LINGLY, adverb With a look of pleasure.

SMILT, for smelt. [Not in use.]

SMIRCH, verb transitive smerch. [from murk, murky.] To cloud; to dusk; to soil; as, to smirch the face. [Low.]

SMIRK, verb intransitive smerch. To look affectedly soft or kind. [See Smerk.]

SMIT, sometimes used for smitten. [See Smite.]

SMITE, verb transitive preterit tense smote; participle passive smitten, smil. [This verb is the Latin mitto.]

1. To strike; to throw, drive or force against, as the fist or hand, a stone or a weapon; to reach with a blow or a weapon; as, to smite one with the fist; to smite with a rod or with a stone. Whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39.

2. To kill; to destroy the life of by beating or by weapons of any kind; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other engine. David smote Goliath with a sling and a stone. The Philistines were often smitten with great slaughter. [This word, like slay, usually or always signification, that of beating, striking, the primitive mode of killing. We never apply it to the destruction of life by poison, by accident or by legal execution.]

3. To blast; to destroy life; as by a stroke or by something sent. The flax and the barley were smitten. Exodus 9:15.

4. To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.

5. To strike or affect with passion. See what the charms that smite the simple heart. Smit with the love of sister arts we came.

TO smite WITH THE TONGUE, to reproach or upbraid. Jeremiah 18:18.

SMITE, verb intransitive To strike; to collide. The heart melteth and the kness smite together. Nahum 2.

SMITE, noun A blow.

SMI'TER, noun One who smites or strikes. I gave my back to the smiters. Isaiah 50:6.

SMITH, noun

1. Literally, the striker, the beater; hence, one who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as an iron-smith; gold-smith; silver-smith, etc. Nor yet the smith hath learn'd to form a sword.

2. He that makes or effects any thing.

Hence the name smith which, from the number of workmen employed in working metals in early ages, is supposed to be more common than any other.

SMITH, verb transitive To beat into shape; to forge. [Not in use.]

SMITH'CR'AFT, noun [smith and craft.] The art of occupation of a smith. [Little used.]

SMITH'ERY, noun

1. The worshop of a smith.

2. Work done by a smith.

SMITH'ING, noun The act or art of working a mass of iron into the intended shape.

SMITH'Y, noun The shop of a smith. [I believe never used.]

SMITT, noun The finest of the clayey ore made up into balls, used for marking sheep.

SMITTEN, participle passive of smite, smit'n.

1. Struck; killed.

2. Affected with some passion; excited by beauty or someting impressive.

SMIT'TLE, verb transitive [from smite.] To infect.

SMOCK, noun

1. A shift; a chemise; a woman's under garment.

2. In composition, it is used for female, or what relates to women; as smock-treason.

SMOCK'-FACED, adjective [smock and face.] Pace faced; maidenly; having a feminine countenance or complexion.

SMOCK'-FROCK, noun [smock and frock.] A gaberdine.

SMOCK'LESS, noun Wanting a smock.

SMOKE, noun

1. The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning. It is paricularly applied to the volatile matter expelled from vegetable matter, or wood coal, peat, etc. The matter expelled from metallic substances is more generally called fume, fumes.

2. Vapor; water exhalations.

SMOKE, verb intransitive

1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation. Wood and other fuel smokes when burning; amd smokes most when there is the least flame.

2. To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man. Deuteronomy 29:20.

3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, be smokes along the field.

4. To smell or hunt out; to suspect. I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. [Little used.]

5. To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.

6. TO suffer; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.

SMOKE, verb transitive

1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

2. To smell out; to find out. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeer. [Now little used.]

3. TO sneer at; to ridicule to the face.

SMO'KED, participle passive Cured, cleansed or dried in smoke.

SMO'KEDRY, verb transitive To dry by smoke.

SMO'KELESS, adjective Having no smoke; as smokeless towers.

SMO'KER, adjective

1. One that dries by smoke.

2. One that used tobacco by burning it in a pipe or in the form of a cigar.

SMO'KING, participle present tense

1. Emitting smoke, as fuel, etc.

2. Applying smoke for cleansing, drying, etc.

3. Using tobacco in a pipe or cigar.

SMO'KING, noun

1. The act of emitting smoke.

2. The act of applying smoke to.

3. The act or practice of using tobacco by burning it in a pipe or cigar.

SMO'KY, adjective

1. Emitting smoke; fumid; as smoky fires.

2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as a smoky fog.

3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling it; thick. New England in autumn frequently has a smoky atmosphere.

4. Subject to be filled with smoke from the chimneys or fire-places; as a smoky house.

5. Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as smoky rafters; smoky cells.

SMOLDERING, the more correct orthography of smouldering, which see.

SMOOR, SMORE, verb transitive TO suffocate or smother. [Not in use.]

SMOOTH, adjective [Latin mitis.]

1. Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points are perceptible to the touch; not rough; as smooth glass; smooth porcelain. The out lines must be smooth imperceptible to the touch.

2. To free from obstruction; to make easy. Thou, Abelard, the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day.

3. To free from harshness; to make flowing. In their motions harmony divine so smooths her charming tones.'

4. To palliate; to soften; as, to smooth a fault.

5. To calm; to mollify; to allay. Each perturbation smooth'd with outward calm.

6. To ease. The difficulty smoothed.

7. To flatter; to soften with blandishments. Because I cannot flatter and look fair, smile in men's faces, smooth deceive and coy.

SMOOTH'ED, participle passive Made smooth.

SMOOTHEN, for smooth, is used by mechanics; though not, I believe, in the U. States.

SMOOTH'LY, adverb

1. Evenly; not roughly or harshly.

2. With even flow or motion; as, to flow or glide smoothly

3. Without obstruction or difficulty; readily; easily.

4. With soft, bland, insinuating language.

SMOOTH'NESS, noun

1. Evenness of suface; freedom from roughness or asperity; as the smoothness of a floor or wall; smoothness of the skin; smoothness of the water.

2. Softness or mildness to the palate; as the smoothness of wine.

3. Softness and sweetness of numbers; easy flow of words. Virgil, though smooth where smoothness is required, is far from affecting it.

4. Mildness or gentleness of speech; blandness of address.

SMOOR, SMORE verb transitive TO suffocate or smother. [Not in use.]

SMOTE, preterit tense of smite.

SMOTHER, verb transitive [allied perhaps to smoke.]

1. To suffocate of extinguish life by causing smoke or dust to enter the lungs; to stifle.

2. To suffocate or extinguish by closely covering, and be the exclustion of air; as, to smother a child in bed.

3. To suppress; to stifle; as, to smother the light of the understanding.

SMOTHER, noun

1. Smoke; thick dust.

2. A state of suppression. [Not in use.]

SMOUCH, verb transitive To salute. [Not in use.]

SMOULDERING, SMOULDRY, adjective [a word formed from mold, molder. and therefore it ought to be written smoldering.] Burning and smoking without vent.

SMOULDERING, SMOULDRY adjective [a word formed from mold, molder. and therefore it ought to be written smoldering.] Burning and smoking without vent.

SMUG, adjective Nice; neat; affectedly nice in dress. [Not in use.]

SMUG, verb transitive To make spruce; to dress with affected neatness. [Not in use.]

SMUG'GLE, verb transitive [We probably have the root mug, in hugger mugger.]

1. To import or export secretly goods which are forbidden by the goverment to be imported or exported; or secretly to import or export dutiable goods without paying the duties imposed by law; to run.

2. To convey clandestinely.

SMUG'GLED, participle passive Imported or exported clandestinely and contrary to law.

SMUG'GLER, noun

1. One that imports or exports goods privately and contrary to law, either contraband goods or dutiable goods, without paying the customs.

2. A vessel employed in running goods.

SMUG'GLING, participle present tense Importing or exporting goods contrary to law.

SMUG'GLING, noun The offense of importing or exporting prohibited goods. or other goods without paying the customs.

SMUG'LY, adverb Neatly; sprucely. [Not in use.]

SMUG'NESS, noun Neatness; spruceness without elegance. [Not in use.]

SMUT, noun

1. A spot made with soot or coal; or the foul matter itself.

2. A foul black substance which forms on corn. Sometimes the whole ear is blasted and converted into smut This is often the fact with maiz. smut lessens the value of wheat.

3. Obscene language.

SMUT, verb intransitive To gather smut; tobe converted into smut

SMUTCH, verb transitive [from smoke.] To blacken with smoke, soot or coal.

[Note. We have a common word in New England, pronouced smooch, which I take to be smutch It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.]

SMUT'TILY, adverb

1. Blackly; smokily; foully.

2. With obscene laguage.

SMUT'TY, adjective

1. Soiled from smut, coal, soot or the like.

2. Tainted with mildew; as smutty corn.

3. Obscene; not modest or pure; as smutty language.