smoother 
ally of stone. (6) The workman who operates 
such a smoother for polishing grooves or ent-.. 
SmOOther-t, and r. An obsolete I'onn ot 
smotlii'r. 
Smooth-faced (smi'mi'tast), n. 1. Having a 
smooth surface in general: as. a xiiiniitli-l'in-i-il 
file. 2. Having a smooth face; beardless. 
3. Having a mild, bland, or winning look; hav- 
ing a fawning, insinuating, or hypocritical ex- 
pression. 
A twelvemonth and a day 
I'll mark no words that mootk-faetd wooers say. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 838. 
Smooth-faced, drawling, hypocritical fellows, who pre- 
tend ginger isn't hot in their months, and cry down all 
innocent pleasures. George Eliot, Janet's Repentance, i. 
smooth-grained (smoH'grand),rt. Smooth in 
the grain, as wood or stone. 
Nor box, nor limes, without their use are made, 
Smooth-grained, and proper for the turner's trade. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, 11. 630. 
smoothing-box (smo'THing-boks), w. A box- 
iron. EIICI/V. Diet. 
Smoothing -boxes. Buckles, Steels, and Ai 
smudge 
= Syn. 1. >'<m>'/ f i-. Su/o 
cnte. To fnuCfer, in the itricUl l.-ath 
venting air fmni < lit. ting Hie tins,- "i inmitli. To 
i- t.. iinjunl Iff l>> '"pnni.'e, external 
<H internal. Ill the w IIM!]. 1; I "put to death 
In rninpreSHioil of the windpipe. 'I'lit'- 'neas 
[t it i, nit. -n IIM 'i t"i partial or at- 
t.'inptiil Miaiik'ling, and that it suggests its derivation. 
>'." ''' and itijle arc essentially the name, except that 
utijte is the htrouK'T: tliey mean tn kill l>> im|M:<linK res- 
piration. 
II. Mmit. 1. To be sufToeated. 2. To 
breathe with great difficulty by reason of 
smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or 
the like. 3. Of a tire, to burn very slowly for 
want of air: smolder. 
The smoky fume nnorthrrting so wa, 
The Abbay it toke, sore gan it enbras. 
Jtak / Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 8803. 
What fenny trash maintains the nnolli'riny nrei 
< if his desires ! Qvarla, Emblems, 11. 14. 
4. Figuratively, to perish, grow feeble, or de- 
l-line. b\ suppression or concealment; be stifled; 
be suppressed or concealed. 
Which zeal| may He tmothiring lor a time till It meet* 
with suitable matter and a freer vent and then it breaks 
xmorire, out into a dreadfull flame. Stillingfleet, Sermons, II. vl. 
smoothing-iron (smo'THing-I"eni),w. A heavy die away, grow pale, '<' L.ez, out, + won, die: smotheration(smuTH-er-a'shon), w. [(.smother 
iron utensil with a flat polished face, used for see mart 1 . Cf. morendo.] Same as morendo. + -ation.] 1. The act of smothering, or_ the 
smoothing clothes, bed-linen, etc.: it is usual- smorzando (smor-tzan'do). [< It. smor:aniln. 
ly heated. Solid smoothing-irons are called flat-irons; ppr. of smorzare, extinguish, put out, die out.] 
hollow ones, heated with burning charcoal, a lamp, a piece J n music, same as morendo. 
of red-hot iron inserted, or the like, are called by different aTTln f t A obsolete nreterit of vmite 
names. See box -inn, sad-iron, and goose, n., 3. *. An < or smite, 
, , smote (smot). Preterit of smite. 
The motif Auiff-iron* . . . hung before the flre. ready for ": ,__ij_vi rmf / .*.. /: K! 
Mary when she- should want them. Smotcrlicht, a. [ME < smoteren (m cornp. In 
Mrs. Gaikell, Mary Barton, viii. smotered, pp., smutted, dirtied) (cf. MD. siiiixl- 
rren,T>. xnwitiliri'i,, smut, soil: see smut) + -licit, smothenness (smuTH'er-i-nes), n 
MLG. xmiiiTii, smother, slide, stew, > (i. xi-lniiii- 
(/, stew .sweltert; prob.< *mnni-(= Ml). tiHiuir), 
a MilVocating vapor: see xmii/lii r. ximilili f. J I. 
lmii.1. To smother: sntToeate. [O1<1 Eng. and 
Snitch.] 
All suld be smored with ntiten dout, 
Warne tlia hevens ay nmved nhollt. 
Itinufxlt', I'l irkr nf I 'nnsrienee, 1. 7601. 
Sobewrapjied tliem and entangled them, kep> n^' itnnnt 
by force tile fetlhTlird and pillmvis hanle nntn tln;ir 
mouthes, that within a while they smrrrtd an<! -t\tlnl 
them. Hall, Kichard 111., f. :). (HaUiwett.) 
Manie gcntillman <lid with him byil. 
\Vlms prais Honld nnt tie */*./- /. 
Itattlf of Ilalriime* (Child's llallads, VII. 228). 
Itt suld nocht be hid, nor obscurit : 
It suld nocht be throung down, nor tnnurit. 
Lauder, Dewtieof Kyngis(r.. K. T. S.), 1. 220. 
II. iiitriiits. To smother; be suffoeated. 
[Scotch.] 
By this time he was cross the ford, 
W hare In the snaw the chapman mnoor'd. 
Burnt, Tarn o' Shanter. 
smore 2 (smor), r. t. A dialectal form of *<;/. 
lldlltwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Money Masters All Things (1698), p. 70. gmorendo (smo-ren'do). [It., ppr. of 
Q(smo"THiug-I"ern), w. A heavy die away, grow pale, '< L. ex, out. + /. 
smoothing-mill (smo'THing-mil), n. In gem- 
and glass-cutting, a wheel made of sandstone, on 
which a continuous stream of water is allowed 
to flow during the cutting and beveling of glass, 
gems, and small glass ornaments. 
Smoothing-plane (smo'THing-plan), n. Incarp., 
a small tine plane used for finishing. See 
plane%, 1. 
smoothing-stone (smo'THing-ston), n. A sub- 
stitute for a smoothing-iron, made of steatite, 
with a plate and handle of metal. E. H. Kniijli t. 
smoothly (smoTH'li), adv. [< ME. smetheliche; 
< smooth + -ly' 2 .] In a smooth manner or form, 
in any sense of the word smooth. 
smoothness (smo^H'nes), n. [< ME. smethnes, 
< AS. smethnys, < smethe, smooth: see smooth, 
a.] The state or character of being smooth, in 
any sense. 
The sinoothnesse of your words and silltibles running 
vpon feete of sundrie quantities. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 65. 
I want smoothness 
To thank a man for pardoning of a crime 
I never knew. 
Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 2. 
Hee distinguishes not betwixt falre and double-dealing, 
and suspects all smoothnesse for the dresse of knauerie. 
state of being smothered; suffocation. 2. A 
sailors' dish of beef and pork smothered with 
potatoes. [New Eng. in both senses.] 
smother-fly (smuTH'er-fli), . Any aphid. 
Tlie people of this village were surprised by a shower of 
aphides, or nnother-flies, which fell in these parts. 
Gilbert White, Nat Hist, of Selborne, liii. 
The state 
Siiffo- 
E. -fyl.] Smutty; dirty. of being smothery. 
And eek for she was somdel smoterlich, Smotheringly (smuTH'er-ing-li), 0*. 
She was as digne as water in a dich. catingly ; so as to suppress. 
Chaucer, Keeve's Tale, 1. 43. gmother-kiln (smuTH'er-kil), . A kiln into 
smother (smura'er), . [Early mod. E. also which smoke is admitted for the purpose of 
smoother; < ME. smother, a contr. of the earlier blackening pottery in firing. 
sinorther, smorthur, a suffocating vapor; with smothery (smuTH'er-i), a. [< smother + -yi.] 
formative -ther, < AS. smorian, smother, stifle, Tending to smother; full of smoke, fog, dust, 
suffocate: see smorei.] 1. That which smo- or the like; stifling: as, a smothery atmosphere. 
thers or appears to smother, in any sense. What, dullard ? we and you In smothery chafe, 
(a) Smoke, fog, thick dust, foul air, or the like. Babes, baldheads, stumbled thus far into Zin 
Thus must I from the smoke into the mother; e Horrid, getting neither out nor 1^ 
From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother. Browning, Sordello, iil. 
Shak., As you Like it, 1. 2. 299. smouch 1 (smoch or smouch), r. and n. [A v#r. 
For hundreds of acres nothing Is to beseen but mwther of smutch.] Same as smutch. 
and desolation, the whole circuit round looking like the 
cinders of a volcano. 
Gilbert White, Nat. Hist, of Selborne, Til. 
A couple of yachts, with the tacks of their mainsails 
triced up, were passing us in a smother of foam. 
W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, xx. 
(6) Smoldering ; slow combustion, (c) Confusion ; excess 
with disorder : as, a perfect smother of letters and papers. 
2. The state of being stifled ; suppression. 
There Is nothing makes aman suspect much, more than SlllOUCh- (smouch), n. [< smouch 2 , t'.] 
to know little; and therefore men should remedy sus- kiss; a smack; a buss, 
piclon by procuring to know more, and not to keep their ,, ome gmack j , for , ^^A. 
suspicions in smother. Bacon, Suspicion (ed. 1887). Promos and Catsandra, p. 47. (HallimU.) 
(smouch), v. [Perhaps a dial. var. of 
To kiss; buss. [Obsolete or prov. 
Eng.] 
What kissing and bussing, what smouching & slabber- 
Ing one of another ! Stubbes, Anat. of Abuses, 1. 16. 
I had rather than a bend of leather 
Shee and I might smouch together. 
Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 40). 
A loud 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Blunt Man. 
The torrent's moothne* ere it dash below. Campbell, smother (srnujH'er), r. [Early mod. E. also Bmonch 3 ( 8 m ouch),. [Origin obscure.] Alow- 
amoother; < ME. smothren, smorthercn, smor- ( . rowne( j hat. UtiltiireU. [Prov. Eng.] 
tliren, gmcorthren, nmorther, suffocating vapor: 
see smother, n. In the sense 'daub or smear,' 
regarded by some as due to ME. bismotered, be- 
daubed: see smoterlich.] I. trans. 1. To suffo- 
cate ; stifle ; obstruct, more or less completely, 
the respiration of. 
The beholders of this tragic play, . . . 
smooth-paced (smoTH'past), n. Having a 
smooth pace or movement ; of a regular, easy 
flow. 
In mtooth-pac'd Verse, or hobliug Prose. 
Prior, Alma, ill. 
smooth-sayer (sm6TH'sa"er), n. One who is 
smooth-tongued. [Rare.] 
I should rather, ten times over, dispense with the flat- 
terers and the smooth-sayerx than the grumblers. 
C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 141. 
smooth-scaled (smoTH'skald), a. Having flat, 
smooth, or ecariuate scales, as a reptile or a 
fish. 
smooth-Shod (smpTH'shod), a. Having shoes 
not specially provided with cogs, calks, or spikes 
Some who had the holy nre, being surrounded and almost 
smothered by the crowd that pressed about them, were 
forced to brand the candles in the faces of the people in 
their own defence. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. I. 27. 
The helpless traveller . . . emothered in the dusty whirl- 
wind dies. Adaison, Cato, II. 6. 
2. To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by cover- 
(smouch), r. t. [Prob. ult. < AS. stneo- 
i/iin, creep, etc.: see smock.] To take unfair- 
ly; also, to take unfair advantage of; chouse; 
gouge. [Colloq., U. 8.] 
The rest of it was emouched from House's Atlantic pa- 
per. New Princeton Ren., V. 49. 
Smouch' 1 (smouch), . [< D. "Swans, Xmoiisje, a 
German Jew, so called because many of them 
being named Moses, they pronounce this name 
Moiwi/ir, or according to the Dutch spelling, 
Mmmjc" (Sewel).] A Jew. [Cant.] 
I saw them roast some poor Swmichet at Lisbon became 
they would not eat pork. 
Johnston, chrysal, 1. 228. (.Dana.) 
smoothsides , 
gurnard, Triijla hirtinclo. [Prov. Eng. 
as, to smother a 
I'lll'll'M j K 1 l"'"^ 1 t *.!! *tjf J 01 
, fig- smou ider, smoulderingness, etc. See smolder, 
ing. 
smooth-tongued (smoTH ' tungd), a. Lsmg 
smooth words ; smooth-spoken ; plausible. 
Your dancing-masters and barbers are such finical, 
smooth-tonaiifd, tattling fellows; and if you set 'em once 
a-talking they'll ne'er a-done, no more than when you set 
'em a-nddling. 
Wycherley, (Jentleman Dancing-Master, iii. 1. 
Smooth-Winged (smoTH'wingd), n. In oniilh.. 
not rough-winged: specifically noting swallows 
which have not the peculiar serration of the 
outer primary of such genera as PsaNdoproeue 
and Stelgidopteryx. 
smore 1 (smor). r. [Also smitor; <ME. *"". 
< AS. smoritni. smother, stifle, suffocate (= MD. 
hide: as, the committee's report was smothered. 
Sextus Tarquinius, . . smothering his passions for the . 
present, departed with the rest back to the camp. SmOUt (smout), I . I. 
Shak. , Lucrece, Arg. *"- "">'""i < 
I am afraid, Son, there's something Ijlon't see yet, 
something that 
Sinouse (smous), w. Same as i 
ha! Admirable! admirable! I honour the 
C. MacHin, Man of the World, ii. 1. 
, - - [Origin obscure.] To per- 
form occasional work, when out of constant 
employment. JJiillhrrll. 
under aU this Raillery. smout (smout), H. [< smout, r.] A compositor 
Steele, Conscious Lovers, i. 2. w jj O has occasional employment in various 
4. In cookery, to cook in a close dish : as, beef- printing-offices. [Printers' slang, Eng.] 
steak ttmolh'ei-ed with onions. 5. To daub or smuckle (smuk'l), r. >. An obsolete or dialec- 
smear. Hulliieell. [Prov. Eng.] Smothered tal form of MH </<;'< ' 
mate See motes. - TO smother up, to wrap up so as to gmucklert, . An obsolete variant of smuggler. 
produce the appearance or sensation of being smothered. t,y |/Y ,f 
Tne 8U1 ?' smudee 1 (smui), r. t. ; pret. and pp. smudged, 
K^rnu "-utT SEJSSft. , 223. ^?5S4S* [Early P mod. E. svoodoe; 
