SLU [Usury] doth dull and dampe all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherin money would be stirring, if it were not for this slugge.-Bacon. Ess. Of Usury. And it is still episcopacy that before all our eyes worsens and slugs the most learned, and seeming religious of our ministers.-Milton. Of Reformation in England, b. i. For all the words that came from gullets, If long, were slugs; if short ones bullets. Collon. To John Bradshaw, Esq. And said; "Ah! wretched sonne of wofull syre, Doest thou sit wayling by blacke Stygian lake, Whylest here thy shield is hangd for victors hyre? And, sluggish german, doest thy forces slake To after-send his foe, that him may overtake. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. I rather would entreat thy company Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. sc. 1. Who, that they might not come sluggishly to possess what others had won for them, either by their own seeking, or by appointment, are set in place where they could not but at their first coming give proof of themselves upon the enemy. Millon. History of England, b. iii. Mill-stones, in the Greek gospel, are termed unλo oviko; that is, asses mill-stones; either because asses [as St. Hillary will have it] used to draw them about before men taught the wind and water to do that work for them), or because the lower mill-stone was called ovos. an asse from the sluggishnesse thereof, as always lying still. Fuller. Worthies. Anglesey. Add, that it would also weaken and enervate mens natural faculties, by slugging them, and rather beget a puffy conceit and opinion of knowledge. by a multifarious rabble of indigested notions, than the truth thereof. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 321. 'So a man being shot with a slug near the external canthus of the right eye, through that bone, it seemed to the chirurgeon that dressed it, to have passed directly forwards. Wiseman. Surgery, b. vi. c. 2. As forc'd from wind-guns, lead itself can fly, And pond'rous slugs cut swiftly thro' the sky. Pope. Dunciad, b. i. For sprightly May commands our youth to keep The vigils of her night, and breaks their sluggard sleep. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. i. Answerable to my conjecture, there remained in the bottom a salt, not only far more sluggish than the fugitive one of urine.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 305. On shore they [seals] lie very sluggishly, and will not go out of our ways unless we beat them, but snap at us. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1683. How should this instance of the operative virtue of God's word reproach our sluggishness and insensibility? Atterbury, vol. iv. Ser. 5. Slugs pinch'd with hunger, smear'd the slimy wall. Churchill. The Prophecy of Famine. Every man who has undertaken to instruct others, can tell what slow advances he has been able to make, and how much patience it requires to recal vagrant inattention, to stimulate sluggish indifference, and to rectify absurd misapprehension. Knox. On Liberal Education. I would rather wish a student, as soon as he goes abroad, to employ himself upon whatever he has been incited to by any immediate impulse, than to go sluggishly about a prescribed task.-Reynolds, Disc. 12. SLUICE, n. SLUICE, v. SLU'ICY. dammed up. aquæ. Fr. Escluse; It. Sclusa; Sp. the Lat. Clausus, closed or Sclusa,-locus ubi concluduntur A place in which water is closed or inclosed; a dam. To sluice, (or to unsluice, qv.)—to open that which closes, the gate; to issue forth, (sc.) in or like floods of water; to wet or waste abundantly; to overwhelm. His govenor led his men homeward, while he kept himself stil hindmost, as if he had stood at the gate of a sluice to let the stream go, with such proportion as should seem good unto him.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii. Most of their towns are thereby incompass'd with water, which by sluces they can contract or dilate as they list. Howell, b. i. Let. 5. Jul. Oh, thou hast op'd a sluce was long shut up, Beaum. & Fletch. The Maid in the Mill, Act iii. sc 1. [I say] that he did plot the Duke of Glousters death, Suggest his soone beleeuing aduersaries, And consequently, like a traitor coward, Stuc'd out his innocent soule through streames of blood. SLU Nigh on the plain in many cells prepar'd, Dryden. The Spanish Fryar, Act i. The water which yields this salt works in from out of the sea through a hole in the sand-bank before mentioned, like a sluce, and that only in spring-tides. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1699. The yellow harvests of the ripen'd year, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. v. The weight of waters saps the yielding wall, SLUMBER, v. SLUMBER, n. SLUMBERER. SLUMBERING, n. SLUMBEROUS. SLUMBERY. Id. Ib. b. xii. Also written (as in Gower) slomer. Dut. Sluymen, sluymeren; Ger. Schlum-mern; A. S. Slummeran, nictare, dormitare, to wink, to be inclined or disposed to sleep. And sayd "Awake," full wonderlich and sharpe. The carpenter out of his slomber sterte, and this sinne cometh of slouthe.-Id. The Persones Tale. With mochell wo but at laste His slomerend eies he vpcaste, And said hir, that it shall be do.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. In dreames and visions of the night season (when slombrynge commeth vpon men, that they fall a slepe in theyr beddes) he rowndeth them in the eares, he infourmeth them, and sheweth them playnly, that it is he, whiche withdraweth man from euyl, delyuereth hym frome pryde, kepeth hys soule from destruccion, and his lyfe frō the swearde. Bible, 1551. Job, c. 33. Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Milton. L'Allegro. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 5. And as a slumb'rer stretching on his bed, Beneath an ample portico, they spread Pope. Homer. Odysery, bir Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet was between; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breath'd. Thomson. Castle of Indolence, e They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of lít, during the period of one hundred and eighty seven years. Gibbon. Decline & Fall, c. 5. With these the statesman strove to ease his care, To sooth his sorrows, and to divert despair: But long his grief sleep's gentle aid denies; At length a stumb'rous Briton clos'd his eyes. P. Whitehead. State Dunca At length the hero from the earth he rais'd: SLUR, v. Perhaps a corruption of slutter,-- To do any thing lazily, carelessly, dirtily; t smear, to soil, to tarnish, to pollute; to cast: soil or spot upon; to pass slightly, (with a view to escape notice); to cheat. This touched the reputation of Mr. Rich to the very quick, and was a slur that could not be effaced, without the utmo difficulty.-State Trials. Hen. VIII. an. 26. Then from the table he gave a start, Where banquet and wine were nothing scarce; A manger was the place that first received the Lord of There would have been one species of beings wanting to compleat the universe; and it would have been a siste the divine goodnesse not to have given being to such crea tures as in the idea were fairly possible; and contradicted no other attribute.-Glanvil. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 8. In every part of the human figure, when not spoiled by too great corpulency, will be found this distinctness, the parts never appearing uncertain or confused, or, as a ma cian would say, siuried; and all those smaller parts which are comprehended in the larger compartment are still to b there, however tenderly marked. Reynolds. Art of Painting, Note SLUT. SLUTTERY. SLUTTISH. SLUTTISHLY. SLUTTISHNESS. Cambridge. A Dialogut. Slut, or (as Gower writes it) slout, is the past part of the verb slaw-ian, to shor i.e. to make slow, or cause to be slow, and formed thus Donne. The Progress of the Soul. slowed, slow'd, sloud, slout, slut. Slut formerly The drouping night thus creepeth on them fast; As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast as sloven now-was applied to males as well as females. See Tooke. One who is too slow, lazy, idie,-to do any Spenser. Faerie Queene, b...: 1. neatly. So long they sought, till they arrived were Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 6. In th' English fleet each ship resounds with joy, a lazy, uncleanly, dirty person. It shall not be in hir election, The foulest stutte in all the toune to refuse, Chaucer. The Letter of Cupid Id. The Chanones Yemunnes Prologue, v. 15,14 There is yet one, whiche Idelnes Than he shewed them, in maner of communycasion, all the nature of the Spanyardes, howe they be sluttysshe and lousy, and enuyous of other mannes welthe. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 31. Clo. Truly, and to cast away honestie vppon a foule slut, were to put good meate into an vncleane dish. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. Sluttery, to such neate excellence oppos'd, Nor so allur'd to feed.-Id. Cymbeline, Act i. sc. 7. The house for cleanly sweeping. Drayton. Nymphidia. The Court of Fairy. Oir. They are sluttish ones. Beaum. & Fletch. The Maid in the Mill, Act v. sc. 1. They have taken a toil, surely very laborious, out of infianite huge volumes to pick whatsoever may seem to be either We absurdly, or falsely, or fondly, or scandalously, or dishonestly, or passionately, or sluttishly conceived or written. Sandys. State of Religion. The onelie meane at those daies whereby hir husband his countrie was reclamed from sluttishnesse and slouenrie, to w cleane bedding and ciuilitie. Holinshed. Chronicles of Irelande, an. 1524. By the fair laws of thy firm-pointed pen, A sluttishness, for pure religion. Crashaw. On a Treatise of Charity. As for spiders, it is evident that they are of the Tа autopaws yevueva, as Aristotle phrases it, and are generated of mere sluttery and putrefaction. More. Immortality of the Soul, b. iii. c. 13. A poach'd egge; meat which in the shell may safely be - eaten after a sluttish, out of it not after a malicious, hand. Fuller. Worthies. Essex. Here by the by I cannot but look upon the strange inrestinet of this noisome and troublesome creature the louse, of searching out foul and nasty clothes to harbour and breed in, as an effect of Divine Providence, designed to deter men and women from sluttishness and sordidness, and to provoke them to cleanliness and neatness. SLY. SLILY. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Also written Sleigh, and is perhaps the same word as Sleight, (i.e. sleyed, sley'd, sly'd, the final d omitted,) meaning Acting with forecast; forecasting or projecting; cautious, circumspect; cunning, crafty; subtle. Substance sly, in Spenser, is substance slight or slender. Milton, Comus, v. 155" To cheat SMA Thei shope amonge them such a wile, That thei ne ben disconered out, To flee, for there was no reste.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 9. They tempted me t' attack your highness, Swift. Sheridan's Submission. So that upon an opportunity offering wherein a man may SMACK, n. the verb formed from the sound of the lips in eat- pression; to-a similar sound, as of a whip; of relish. She behind thy back Chaucer The Letter of Cupid. Warner. Albion's England, b. ii. c. 10. The tast or smacke of Saverie, Origan, Cressies, and the eye with blear illusion," had been, in the Senvie, is hote and biting.-Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 12. "with sleight Slightly, in the fifth quotation from Chaucer, is And stele up on myn enemy A thefe he was forsoth, of corn and mele, Chaucer. The Reves Taie, v. 3937. A col fox, ful of sleigh iniquitee. Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,151. And eke men brought him cut of his contre But honestly and sleighly he it spent, And if this man slee here himselfe, alas, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1446. Id. Troil. & Cres. b. ii. Tho weshen they, and set hem doun and ete, Gan draw hem to the window near the street.-Id. Ib. The heauen is far, the worlde is nigh, And vaine glorie is eke so sligh, Whiche couetise hath now witholde, That thei none other thinge beholde, But only that thei mighten winne.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. For thei ben sligh in suche a wise, That thei by slight, and by queintise Of fals witnes bringen inne, That doth hem ofte for to wynne, That thei be not worthy therto.-Id. Ib. b. v. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 1. Dryden. Persius, Sat. 4. To write in pain, and counterfeit a bliss, Id. Prol. to the Mock Astrologer. Would often boast his matchless skill, Whitehead. The Youth & the Philosopher. But when, obedient to the mode Lloyd. A Familiar Epistle to a Friend. SMA Minute, thin, slender; opposed to large or great; delicate, gentle; opposed to gross. A long knyf yt was & smal y nou, as me may gut yse Go out swithe into the grete stretis and smale stretis of the citee and bringe yn hider pore men and feble. blynde and crokid.-Wiclif. Luk, c. 14. Ovide, amonges other thinges smale, Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6535. To supper set, full smally thev eat.-Id. Remedie of Loue. And smallish in the girdlestede.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. To telle euery mans tale.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. Her garment was cut after such a fashion, that though the length of it reached to the ancles, yet in her going one might sometimes discern the small of her leg. Sidney. Arcadia, b. i. The Frenchmen seeing they could not that way prevail, continued their battery but smally, on which before they had spent 1500 shot in a day. Burnet. Records. Journal of K. Edward's Reign, an. 3. A kynnesma of Sigebert, late kynge, entendyng to reuenge the deposyng of hys kynnesma, awaytid ye tyme, & beset ye house where Kenulph & his paramoure was smally accopanyed.-Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 152. Thenceforth I gan in my engrieved brest Spenser. Vision of the World's Vanilie. Dryden. An Epilogue. That sort of animals being, by reason of their smallness, the fittest of those furnished with lungs and hot blood we could procure.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 376. Knights, lords, and dukes-mad wretch, forbear, To make a light purple, mingle ceruse with logwood water: and moreover turnsoil with lac mingled with smalt of bice. Peacham. SMARAGD. Dut. and Ger. Schmaragd; Lat. Smaragdus ; Gr. Σμαραγδος, from σμαρασσειν, Οι μαράσσειν, to shine. See EMERALD. The forth was of a smaragde or an emerald, which is not only grene of his owne nature, but he maketh all the ayre aboute him to seme grene also.-Bale. Image, pt. iii SMART, adj. Dut. Smerte; Ger. Schmertz; SMART, n. Sw. Smarta; A. S. Smeort-an, SMART, V. dolere, cruciare, to pain. Ihre SMARTLY. supposes the word to have SMARTNESS. been primarily applied to the punishments of the martyrs; and is inclined to derive from the Lat. Martyrus; he thinks that the preposition of the letter s is the principal objection. Perhaps from the A.S. Merr-an, to mar, (qv.) Smart is generally applied to An acute, quick, pungent, cutting pain. Thorgh smerthed of the law he did tham justise. Sir Marmeduk out cam, he trosted on ther fayth, Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7673. 1757 "Alas," said she, "Is ther no ship, of so many as I see, We bringen home my lord? than were my herte Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,095. Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8443. And therwith he sterte up smertly and cast down a grote. Id. The Pardonere & Tapstere." And for to lede hym swithe and smarte, There ben ordeined for to drawe, Wherof the names tell I shall.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. And when the sunne hath eke the darke opprest, Surrey. Of the restless State of a Louer. And sad Repentance used to embay Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. And as some speed well ynough with their wicked deeds and irreligion: so others againe feele the smart and are punished by the saints whom they adore, and the holy ceremonies which they observe.-Holland. Plinie, b. ii. c. 12. "Yet, if the stony cold Have not all seized on your frozen hart, Thrice had the golden sun his hote steedes washt Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3. Objects will then be as present, and will strike as smartly upon our senses.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 7. Her conversation might, for this reason, seem to want somewhat of that salt and smartness, which the ill-natured part of the world are so fond of.-Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 6. Birch Ah, why should birch supply the chair? since oft To dread the hateful seat.-Dodsley. Agriculture, c. 2. And this we denominate heat, from that best known effect we find it have upon ourselves in raising a burning smart in our flesh whenever we approach near enough. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. i. c. 7. SMASH. See MASH. A word very common in speech. SMATCH, v. Į i. e. Smack, (qv.) by the common Smack, (vi) by the SMATCH, n. Smaught is the past tense. But yit ner the lattir He held it nat al foly that Geffrey did clattir, Chaucer. The Marchantes Second Tale. Neuerthelesse no man of our tyme and in our Englishe toungue (which none but our selfes for our own vse do muche passe on,) writeth so ornately, but that he hath in sundry woordes and phrases sum smatche of his natiue countrey phrases, that he was borne in.-Udal. Luke Pref. 1 prythee Strato, stay thou by thy lord, Thou art a fellow of a good respect: Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it. Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act v. sc. 5. Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie.-Banister. Hist. of Man, (1578,) p. 22. We give some Latin, and a smatch of Greek; SMATTER, n. SMATTER, V. Cowper. Progress of Errour. 9. d. Smacker, (rather SMA'TTERER. Smatcher. See SMATCH.) SMATTERING, n. He that has a smattering of learning, qui primoribus tantum labiis literas degustavit. And To smack, to taste, to savour; to have a mere taste, a slight taste or savour; to act, to employ, slightly or superficially. For I abhor to smatter Of one so deuillyshe a matter Skelton. Why come ye not to Court? But in the parties themselves, these two causes I conceive That as for my parts, they were such as he saw; For any mystical exploit.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. For all other sciences, they were in a manner extinguished during the course of this [Assyrian] empire, excepting only a smatter of judicial astrology, by which, under the name of Chaldeans, some of that race long amused ignorant and credulous people. And, all within, it full of wyndings is And hidden wayes, that scarse an hound by smell That if they'd been unfurnish'd of club-truncheons, Beaum. & Fletch. The Nice Valour, Act v. s. 1. But the milde ayre with season moderate Gently attempred, and disposd so well, That still it breathed forth sweet spirit and holesom smell. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. Smelling is another sense, that seems to be wrought on by bodies at a distance; though that which immediately affects the organ, and produces in us the sensation of any smell, are effluvia, or invisible particles, that coming from bodies at a distance, immediately affect the olfactory nerves. Locke. Elements of Natural Philosophy, c. 11. All the smell of plants, and of other bodies, is caused by these volatile parts, and is smelled wherever they are scat tered in the air; and the acuteness of smell in some animals, shews us, that these effluvia spread far, and must be incor Sir W. Temple. Of Ancient & Modern Learning.ceivably subtile.-Reid. On the Human Mind, c. 2. s. 1. Others, that they may seem universally knowing, get a little smattering in every thing. Locke. Hum. Underst. vol. ii. p. 350. SMEAR, v. To cover or rub over with any greasy, slimy, Smear, n. is not unusual. Her shone smered with talow.-Skelton. Elinour Rumming. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 3. SMELL, v. SMELL, n. SME'LLER. Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. iii. word has not been satis They could not be far off, as we smelled the smoke of fire, though we did not see it.-Cook. Second Voyage, b. i. c. 4. SMELT, v. Dut. Schmelten; Ger. Schmeb SME'LTER. Szen; Sw. Smalta; A. S. Melt-an milt-an, to melt. To reduce to a liquid or fluid state: usually applied to the melting of ores. What tools are used in smelting, their figures, use, &c. and the whole manner of working ?-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 741. The smelters come up to the assayers. Woodward. On Fossi Having too much water, many corns will smilt, or have their pulp turned into a substance like thick cream. Mortimer The miner, the builder of the furnace for smelling the ore, the feller of the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smelling-house, the brick-maker, the brick-layer, the workmen who attend the furnace, the mil wright, the forger, the smith, must all of them join ther different arts in order to produce them. SMERK, or SMIRK, V. SMIRK, n. SMIRK, adj. (Junius,)— Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i.c. A. S. Smerc-ian, subridere, arridere, Somner. (See MERRY.) Suviter et cum leni susurro ridere. and with a gentle or slight factorily traced to its originais. To smile sweetly, conceitedly, as if to gall A.S. Smell, the sense of smellSMELLING, n. ing, is Swac, a word which also denoted, taste. Minshew derived it from the Ger. Schmeicken; A. S. Smæcc-an, to smack; and he did so, rashly as Skinner thought, and as he thought himself, it may be supposed, from the omission in his second edition. It may however be remarked, that the Ger. Schmeicken denotes both taste and smell: that taste is not the mere touch of the organs of tasting, nor smell of the organs of smelling; and that, from this coincidence, the word applied to the one may have owed its appropriation to the other. It is only to suppose smæc-lian, or smaylian, a diminutive of smæccan, and the word-by dropping the guttural-is formed. To smell, (see the quotation from Locke,) To have or cause to have sensations or feelings by the nose, through the medium of air. To have or cause to have an odour, a scent. To scent, to savour,—to scent, to trace, discern by the scent. Ge seggeth soth by my soule quath ich. ich have seyen hit ofte Her smyt no thynge so smerte. ne smelleth so foule As shame. Piers p. or show favour or admiration. Which granted so, and held deserued due, I may full well on stage supplie the place a while, Browne. Yonge Willie & Old Wernock Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. Februant Her grizzled locks assume a smirking grace, Young. Love of Fame, Sat. 5. With the smirk of those delicate lips, SMICKER, adj. A. S. Smicre, elegant, SMICKERING, n. SMICKLY. trimme, gallant, pretty, And thei tooken the bodi of Jhesus and boundman, P. 228. wrought or contrived, (Somner.). Mr. Ge nun clothis with swete smellyrge oynementis, as it is the says, There saw I eke the fresh hauthorne Chaucer. The Complaint of the Black Knight. The flourie yere yeldeth swete smelles, in the first sommer season warmynge.-Id. Boecius, b. iv. Toward the golde he [Fabricius] gan him drawe, But he ne founde no comforte there.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i. smugg; well or cunningly "smickly is finically, effeminately." We should now perhaps say-smugly. Smickering (in Dryden) seems to be a smack, or taste for. Regardful of his honour he forsook The smicker use of court humanity. Ford. Fame's Memorial, v. 574. Ray. What's he that looks so smickly. Id. The Sun's Darling, Act ii. sc. 1. We had a young doctour, who rode by our coach, and seem'd to have a smickering to our young lady of Pilton, and ever rode before to get dinner in a readiness. Dryden. To Mr. Steward, Let. 3. SMIDDY, i. e. Smithy. See SMITH. His pate is his anvile, the forge his study; so as I may properly apply those antient verses, upon this occasion, to Spesee our truant chanteryman: That scholar well deserves a widdie, Comment. on Chaucer, (1665,) p. 50. SMIGHT. See SMITE. SMILE, v. SMILE, n. SMILER. SMILINGLY. SMILINGNESS. Dut. Smuylen; Ger. Schmollen; Sw. Smala. The origin of this word is perhaps the A. S. Smæl, exilis, gracilis. Smelt or smilt, (past part. of the lost verb,) tenuis, mitis, blandus, serehus. Smylt or smolt wæder, (Dut. Smo'el weder,) my weather, when the sky is clear and without wind, (Somner.) See the quotations from Chaucer, Phaer, and Dryden. To smile_ To move, to contract the features, about the mouth especially, from some feelings of pleasure or self-satisfaction; to look favourably or kindly, to favour, be favourable or propitious to. This miller smiled at hir nicetee, And thought, all this n'is don but for a wile. Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3974. It is of Loue, as of Fortune, And glombe on hem another while.-Id. Rom. of the Rose. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2001. For as I thought, that smiling sign Was token, that the herte encline Would to requests reasonable, Because smiling is favorable To every thing that shall thriue.-Id. Dreame. A softe paas thei daunce and trede, And with the women otherwhile With sobre chere awonge thei smile. For laughter was there none on hie.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii. The maker of the gods and men to her all sweetely With countenaunce such as from the skies ye stormes & And eke the gentle shepheard swaynes, which sat And her against sweet Cherefulnesse was placed, She seeing mine eyes still on her were, Soon, smilingly, quoth she, Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 7. The philosopher [Socrates] having been silent all the while, smilingly said, I thought after so much thunder we should have rain.-Howell, b. i. Let. 9. Begin auspicious boy, to cast about Thy infant eyes, and, with a smile, thy mother single out; The nauseous qualms of ten long months and travail to Then smile; the frowning infant's doom is read, Thus pencils can with one slight touch restore Ev'n children follow'd, with endearing wile, The very knowledge that he lived in vain, SMILT. See SMELT. SMIRCH is, perhaps, Smutch'd or Smudg’d. Cel. I'le put my selfe in poore and meane attire, And with a kinde of vmber smirch my face. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act i. sc. 3. Th' ascent is easy, and the prospect clear, SMITE, v. peer. Smollett. Advice. Dut. Smyten; Ger. Schmeissen; R. Gloucester, p. 55. Thei com Philip so nere, that he cried, "tak the kyng," And thei that weren aboute him, and sighen that was to When they whiche were about him sawe what woulde folow, they said vnto him: Lorde, shall we smyte wyth swearde. And one of them smote a seruaunte of the hyest priest of all, & smote of his rygt eare.-Bible, 1551. Ib. And lo oon of hem that weren with Jhesus streyghte out of his honde and drough out his swerd and he smote the servaunt of the prince of prestis, and kitte of his eere. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26. And behold, one of them which were wyth Jesus, stretched out hys hande and drewe hys swerde, and stroke a seruaunt of the hie priest, and smote of his eare. Bible, 1551. Ib. How gret a sorwe suffereth now Arcite? Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1151. And on the nose he smote him with his fist; Id. The Reves Tale, v. 4203. For if the wolfe come in the waie And when I called, no man gaue me answere, was my The Lorde God hathe opened myne eare, therfore can I Of harmefull fowles about them fluttering cride, Till Satan, who that day So the workeman comforted the founder, and hee that Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt One hand her bosom smites; in one appears SMO All that secret regret, and those inward smitings, laniatus et ictus, which are so often felt in the minds of men, upon the commission of any great sin, do argue some common intimations, even in the light of nature, of another judgment after this life, wherein they shall be accountable for such actions as men do not punish or take notice of. Wilkins. Of Natural Religion, b. i. c. 11. Smit with the glorious avarice of fame, Mason. Art of Painting, v. 683. [He] shal be demed to the deth, bote yf he do hit smythie A softe pas he went him over the strete Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3687. Ther were also of Martes division, The god of fire, whiche Vulcanus To shew is what such coals use, taught by such as have For as the smith with hammour beats He dubs his club about their pates Warner. Albion's England, b. ii. c. 7. It is impossible to separate so entirely the business of the grazier from that of the corn-farmer, as the trade of the carpenter is commonly separated from that of the smith. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 1. sibly wake this noble duke, and push him to an endeavour The din of all this smithery may some time or other posto save some little matter from their experimental philosophy.-Burke. A Letter to a Noble Lord. SMOCK. A. S. Smoc, now applied SMO/CKLESS. (though not exclusively) to the simple under-dress of a female,-seems formerly to have been an article of more importance, and may be from the A. S. Smicre; Dut. Smuck; Ger. Schmuck; Sw. Smuck, ornatus, dressed, adorned. Piers Plouhman opposes it to hair, (i. e. a hair-shirt.) Chaucer speaks of it as wrought with silk. See SMUG. Hue sholde unsywe hure smok. and sette ther an heire For through her smocke wrought with silke, Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. "Naked out of my fadres hous" (quod she) Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8684. Tho casten thei, that he and shee, As thei that were full of sorowe, All naked but of smocke and sherte, To tendre with the kynges herte, And pardon of the death beseche.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. On th' other side they saw the warlike mayd Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbownd, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. lii. e L. In which house [Serrani] this order was precisely kept, That there was nct a woman among them knowne to weare any linnen about her, not so much as in a smocke next her bare skin.-Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 1. They [a pair of drawers] are of a thin rose-coloured damask, brocaded with silver flowers. My shoes are of white kid leather, embroidered with gold. Over this hangs my smocke of a fine white silk gauze, edged with embroidery. Lady Montague, Let. 29. Old chiefs, reflecting on their former deeds, Disdain to rust with batter'd invalids; But active in the foremost ranks appear, And leave young smock-fac'd beaux to guard the rear. Fenton. Prologue to Southerne's Spartan Dame. SMOKE, v. SMOKER. Dut. Smoock, smuyck, smoken, smook-en, smuycken; A. S. Smican, fum-are, evaporare; SMOKELESS. To evaporate, to exhale, to SMOKING, n. reek; to cause an exhalation, a SMO'RY. cloud, a fume; to fume, to fumigate; and, consequentially, applied to express a rapidity of motion; causing the exhalation of heat; a discovery, a perception of first symptoms, (as smoke of latent fire.) To smoke a person,-is nearly equivalent to— To see his hidden purposes; also to— And sette agen the Cristenemen afure in ech ende, Wiclif. Matthew, c. 12. And a smoke of the pitt stighide up as the smoke of a greet furneis. Id. Apocalips, c. 9. And there arose the smok of a great fornace. Bible, 1551. Ib. The vnstable mountaigne that hight Vesevus, writheth The bente Mone with her hornes all pale, Id. Troil. & Cres. b. iii. He was first smoak'd by the old Lord Lafew,-when his disguise, and he is parted, tell me what a sprat you shall finde him.-Shakes. All's Well that ends Well, Act iii. sc. 6. It was a vaut ybuilt for great dispence, With many raunges reard along the wall, And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence The smoke forth threw.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 9. This is that pernicious smoake which sullyes all her glory, wuperinducing a sooty crust or furr upon all that it lights, poyling the moveables, tarnishing the plate, gildings, and furniture, and corroding the very iron bars and hardest stones with those piercing and acrimonious spirits which accompany its sulphure.-Evelyn. Fumifugium. Thear, couring ore two sticks a-crosse, Burnt at a smoakie stocke, They chat how young-men them in youth, Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 47. I know not whether you took notice of the smoke-jack in my brother's kitchen-chimney, which has been there I have heard near a hundred years, and has seldom stood still from its first setting up, night or day; it makes very little noise, needs no winding up, and for that preferable to the more noisy inventions.-Evelyn. To Aubrey, Feb. 1675. The Volcan may easily be known, because there is not any other so high a mountain near it, neither is there any that appears in the like form all along the coast: besides it moaks all the day, and in the night it sometimes sends forth flames of fire.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1684. The public scribe or registracy of the university that now was, being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his office, many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him.-Wood. Fasti Oxon. vol. ii. Tinsel. Thou'rt very smart, my dear. But see! Smoke the Doctor.-Addison. The Drummer, Act iii. sc. 1. Next Aventinus drives his chariot round No rafter'd roofs with dance and tabor sound, Pope. To Lord Bathurst, Epis. 3. We went by the way of one of those hot smoking places Cook. Second Voyage, b. iii. c. 9. So he wrapped them and entangled them, keping down SMOOT. See SMUT. SMOOTHNESS. A. S. Smoeth, from Smeth-ian, planare, æquare; to make plain or even :-perhaps by smiting, or beating flat. See the quotation from Isaiah. To make plain or even, to The abbey of Redynges, & of Cyrencestre al so, Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. Some other thinke, the mettal maketh all, The fore castel of my ship The smoothness of the sea sufficiently convinced us that we were surrounded by them, [low overflowed isles) and how necessary it was to proceed with the utmost caution, especially in the night.-Cook. First Voyage, b. i. c. 2. SMOTHER, v. Dut. Smooren; A. S. Smor SMOTHER n. San, to smudder or smother. To suffocate, to stifle; to choak; to keep or restrain from issuing forth, to suppress. She smothered with so monstrous a weight, did sink down under it to the earth.-Sidney. Arcadia, b, ii. They yeeld a distinction and varietie in our words, cutting and hewing them thicke and short, framing them pleasant, plaine, and readie, drawing them out at length, or maddering and drowning them in the end. Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 16. Orl. I rest much bounden to you; fare you well. Thus must I from the smoake into the smother, From tyrant duke vnto a tyrant brother. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act i. sc. 2. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion, by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother.-Bacon. Ess. Of Suspicion. But there is a more fiery sort of zeal, and more dangerous than this; which may lie smothering for a time till it meets with suitable matter and a freer vent, and then it breaks out into a dreadfull flame.—Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 6. SMOULDER, v. Smoulder, smouder, smooder, smudder, smother, seem to be merely different ways of writing the same word; from the A. S. Smoran, to smoor or smore, (qv.) Sir T. More writes Skelton. Colin Clout's come Home again. Smowder; Jewell Smooder; Holland-Smudder. So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that Like rats oft bite the holy cords atwaine, Shakespeare. Lear, Act ii. sc. 2. For in this smoothing age who durst indite Bp. Hall. Sat. Prol. Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 7. And on the top of all, that passers by Milton. Comus. Spenser. Virgil's Gnat. Drayton. Q. Catharine to Owen Tudor. Ne any lake, that seems most still and slowe, Spenser. Faerie Queene. Of Mutabilitie, c. 7. Swift. To Dr. Sheridan. Smoulder seems now commonly applied to— Mine eyes can neyther quenche the cole, Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. And yt is yt thig yt Paule signifieth by the wood, hay, and strawe, of which the tone is a light flame sone ended, the tother smowdreth much lenger, and the third is hotest and endureth longest.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 321. Now the sonne is vp; your smooder is scattered. God with his truthe wil haue the victorie. Jewell. Answer to M. Hardinge. The powder sendes his smoke into the cruddy skies, The smoulder stops our nose with stench, the fume offends our eies. Gascoigne. Deuise of a Maske for Viscount Mountacute. They preassed forward vnder their ensignes, bearing downe such as stoode in their way, and with their owne fire smooldered and burnt them to ashes. Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 9. A great number of them falling with their horsses and armour into a blind ditch (shadowed with reed and sedges which grew therein) were smouldered and pressed to death. With such a horrid clang As on mount Sinai rang, Id. Ib. b. viii. c. 11. While the red fire, and smouldring clouds out brake. The heavens it doth fill Milton, Ode 17. SMUDGE, v. Jago. Edge-Hill, b. ilí. Formed upon the n. smut, ·(qv.) Smutchin, (in Howell,) so called from its dirtiness. To smear or stain with dirt or fiith. SMU'TCHIN. |