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Show SM SM ~ If blaft feptentrional with bruthing wing Sweep up the fmoky mifts, and vapours damp Philips Then woe to mortals 3 Noifome with {inoke Thou, Abelard ! the laft fad office pay And fmooth my paffage to the realms of day. Pope 4. To make flowing; to free from harfh ‘O he's as tediou As a tir'd horfe, or as a railing wife Worfe than a fimoky houfe 3. To make eafy ; to rid from obftruions nefs Courtef So fmooths her charming tones All your mufe's fofter art difplay Let Carolina fimsorh the tuneful lay Is fooner found in lowly fheds o With [moky rafters, than in tap'ftry hall Milton And courts of princes Morpheus, the humble god that dwell In cottages and fmoky cells Hates gilded roofs and beds of dow And, though he fears no prince's frown SMOOTH i Denbam Flies from the circle of a crown adj [ymeS ymoes Saxon 1. Even on the furface ; no rough vel; having no afperities And fweetly flow through all the royal line: Poge 5. To palliate ; to {often am a fmooth man Mifling thes, I wall unfee Gene xxvii, 11 To fmooth his fault, I would have begn more mild. Shakefpeare 6. To calm; to mollify 7andiotea(e Reftor'd it foon will be ; the means prepar'd The difficulty fmooth'd, the danger thar'd To behold the wandering moo Riding near her higheft noon Milton The outlines muft be fmoorh, imperceptible t Be but yourfelf 8. T Which curious hands may carve, and ftecl with eaf ¢ invade Dryden This man' By the hand he took me rais'd And over fields and watets, as inair Smooth-fliding without ftep Milton The fair-hair'd queen of lov Defcends fmooth-gliding from the courts above Pope Wit O, fhall I fay I thank you, gentle wife -Not fo, my lord, a twelvemonth and a day I'll mark no words that fmoesthfac'd wooers fay Shake[peare Let their heir Enrich their time to come with fmoothfac'd peace Milton With fmiling plenty, and fair profp'rous days Shakefpeare's Richard 11 When fage Minerva rofe From her fiveet lips fniooth elocution flows Gd_y So, Dick adept, tuck back thy hair Smo‘oTHLY 6. Bland; mild ; adulatory ‘The fubtle fiend 3 Diffembled, and this anfwer [mooth return'd Milton's Paradife Regained This fimoorh difcourfe and mild behaviour of Addifon He was fmooth-tongued, gave good words, an feldom loft his temper Arbuth. Hiff. of F. Bull The madding monarchs to compofe The Pylian prince, the fmooth-fpeech'd Neftor, rofe Tickel [from the adjeétive. 1. To level; to make even on the furface The carpenter encouraged the goldfmith, an he that_[mootbd/b with the hammer him that fmot the arzy‘:l Tjziah, xli Smiling he feem'd, and full of pleafing thought From ocean as fhe firft began to rife And finooth'd the rofied feas, and clear'd the fkies Dyryden Now on the wings of winds our courfe we keep The God hath fiisoth'd the wate:s of the decp veetl Withou fimosth obftre&tion; eafily So fweetly warble, or {o [moothly low Though inly fung with anger and difdain Pope's Odyfféy 2. To work into a foft uniform mafs It brings up again into the mouth that which i -had fwallowed, and chewing it, grinds and fmooth 3% and afterwards fwallows it into another ftomach Ray on the Creation readily Pope of the Gi Had Jofhua been mindful, the frau beonites could not fo fmoothly have paft unefpied Hooker till there was no help 4. With foft and bland language Smo'oTHNESs. z. f. [from fmooth. afperity A countryman feeding his flock by the fe that the J the water tempted him to fet up for thof o fiax‘r_)p; elfe fhe was not only burned but fmoSidney We finother' moft replenifhed fieet work of nature That from the prime creation e'er fhe fram'd Shakefpeare We are enow yet living in the field Shakefpeare's Henry V The helplefs traveller, with wild furprife Sees the dry defart all around him rife And fmother'd in the dufty whirlwind dies Addifon's Cato 2. To {upprefs Lewd and wicked cuftom, beginning perhaps a the firt amongft few, afterwards fpreading int greater multitudes, and fo continuing, from tim may be of force, even in plain things, to fmothe Hoocker the light of natural underftanding She was warmed with the graceful appearanc of the hero : the fmothered thofe fparkles out of decency, but converfation blew them upinto a flame Dryden's Aeneidy, Dedicatione Smo'THER. 7 /. [from the verb. Not in ufe 1. A ftate of {fuppreflion This unfortunate prince, after a long fmother o difcontent, and hatred of many of his nobility an people, breaking forth at times into feditions, wa Bacon at laft diftrefled by them A man were better relate himfelf to:a ftatue than fuffer his thoughts to pafs in fmother. Bacon Nothing makesa man fufpet much, more tha to know little; and therefore men fhould procur to know more, and not to keep their fufpicions i Bacon's Efjays Jmother 2. Smoke ; thick dutk Thus muft I from the fmoke into the fmother From tyrant duke into a tyrant brother. ~ Shakefp Where yon diforder'd heap of ruin lies rent from ftones, where clouds of duft arife Hay and {traw have a very low degree of heat but yet clofe and fmothering, and which drieth not Bacon's Natural Hiffory The advantage of converfation is fuch, that for want of company, a2 man had better talk to poft than let his thoughts lic fmoking and fmother Collier of Friend/bip ing rmogan, Saxon, to {inother ; /moel, Dut Fallacious drink ! ye honeft men, beware Nor truft its fmoothnefs; the third circling g Suffices virtue 3. Sweetnefs and {oftnefs of numbers French has more finenefs and fmoothnefs a this time, fo it had more compafs, {pirit, and forc Virgil, though fmooth, wher Zo Smo'THER, @w. # [from the noun. 1. To {fmoke without vent Dryden 2. Softnefs or mildnefs on the palate in Montaigne's age Dryden's ZEneid The greater part enter only like mutes to fill th ftage, and fpend their taper in fmoke and Jmather Collier on Fame L Effrange The finoothnefs of her {kin remains alone Temple fmootbnefs is re quired, is fo far from affe@ing it, that he rathe difdains it; frequently ufing fynalephas, and con cluding his fenfe in the middle of his verfes Dryd X To fmother up the Englifh in our throngs SMO'ULDERING. } [This word feems o l ipIk ; bu parti Smo uLDRY The nymph is all into a laurel gone A wherewit thered fmok 2. To be fupprefled or kept clofe 1. Evennefs on the furface; freedom fro it was fo delicate a fine day utter out fom Amid that fmorber Neptune holds his place The mufick of that murm'ring fprin Is not fo mournful as the ftrains you fing Nor rivers winding through the vales belo Prior She might give paffage to her thoughts, and f Stone 2. With even glide Remarks which none did e'er difclof In fmooth-pac'd verfe or hobbling profe i adv. [from fmoath. 1. Not roughly; evenly And I will pour into thy ea . 4 an SMO'OTHFACED. adj. [ /mooth and face. Mild looking ; having a foft air Smooth Adonis from his roc 70 SmoorH edged grooving tools they cut dow fmoothen the extuberances left. Moxon's Mech. Excr 4. Gently flowing onceal a traitor Shake[peare 70 SM0OO THEN. @. 4. [a bad word amon mechanicks for fmooth.] To make eve and {fmooth 5. Voluble ; not harfh ; foft g if one be Is fmooth'd by that below without ftarts or ob Ran purple to the fea a flatt'rer So are they all'; for every greeze of fortun 2. Evenly {pread; glofly Pope blandifh Smile in men's faces, [mooth, deceive, and cog Dut¢k with French nods and apifh courtefy I muft be held a rancorous enemy. = Shakefpeare Smoath-grain'd, ané proper for the turner's trade 3. Equal in pace froion wit Becaufe I cannot flatter and look fair Nor box nor 'Eimes, without their ufe He for the promis'd journey bids prepar The fmooth-hair'd horfes and the rapid car fofte ments the touch, and even without eminences or cavities Dryden Dryden flatter ; t M.u[:n Zo SMO'THER. . 4. [ymonan, Saxon: 1. To fuffocate with fmoke, or by exclufion of the air Th Now breathe we, lords ; good fortune bids us paufe And fmooth the frowns of war with peacefulooks Shakefpeare Each perturbation fmooth'd with outward calm Milton On the dry fnstb-fhaven green The preterite of /mite Smore as it wer Had it been a ftranger, not my child Ile Behold Efau my brother is a hairy man, and Milton Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine mawyth, \Velfh. She is too fubtle for thee; and ber fmoothnefs Her very filence, and her patience Shakefp Speak to the people, and they pity her Death with a trident fmote In their motions harmony divin Sl'd.('cfi)cm-c 4. Blandnefs and gentlenefs of fpeech not whether the verb /moulder be in ufe hot.] Burning and fmoking without vent Non can breathe, nor fee, nor hear at will Through fmouldry cloud of dufkifh inking fmoke Tha th' only breath him daunts who hath efcap' Fairy Queen the ftroke In fome clofe pent room it crept along And fmorld'rivg as it went,. in fil:x:ceAfcd ~Till th' infant monfter, with devouring ftrong Valk'd boldly upright with exalted head. Dryden SMUG adj [ fmuck drefs ; Dutch. drels; fmucken, t Nice Q. {pruce ; drefle wit |