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Barrow. —To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so 
as to be heard when they separate.—He gives a smacking 
buss. Pope. 
To SMACK, v. a. To kiss. 
So careless flowers, strow’d on the waters’ face, 
The curled whirlpools suck, smack, and embrace. 
Yet drown them. Donne. 
To make to emit any quick smart noise. 
More than one steed must Delia’s empire feel. 
Who sits triumphant o’er the flying wheel; 
And as she guides it through the admiring throng, 
With what an air she smacks the silken thong! Young. 
SMACK, s. (jmsec, Sax. smaeck, Dutch; from the 
verb.]—Taste; savour.—Tincture; quality from something 
mixed. 
As the Pythagorean soul 
Runs through all beasts, and fish and fowl, 
And has a smack of ev’ry one, 
So love does, and has ever done. Hudibras. 
A pleasing taste. 
Stack pease upon hovel; 
To cover it quickly let owner regard. 
Lest dove and the cadow there finding a smack, 
With ill stormy weather do perish thy stack. Tusscr. 
A small quantity; a taste. 
Trembling to approach 
The little barrel, which he fears to broach, 
H’ essays the wimble, often draws it back, 
And deals to thirsty servants but a smack. Dry den. 
The act of parting the lips audibly, as after a pleasing 
taste.—A loud kiss. 
He took 
The bride about the neck, and kiss’d her lips 
With such a clamorous smack, that at the parting 
AH the church echo’d. Shakspeare. 
[bnacca, Saxon ; sneckra, Icelandic.] A small ship.— 
A blow, given with the flat of the hand: as, a smack on the 
face. 
SMALAND, a province in the south of Sweden, lying 
between the Baltic and the province of Halland. It now 
forms thd governments of Jonkioping and Cronoberg, also 
part of that of Calmar, having a superficial extent of 7750 
square miles, with a population of 315,000. Smaland is 
well watered, both by rivers and lakes-, of the former, the 
.chief are the Nissa, the Laga, and the Aem; of the latter, the 
'Wetter, the Som, the Vidoester, and the Moekel. Few 
countries can boast of more picturesque scenery than the 
neighbourhood of Jonkioping and some other places in this 
province; but the greater part consists of barren rocks, forests, 
marshes, and heaths, and the corn land is confined to tracks 
Tying between these unproductive wastes. This accounts in 
part for the comparative thinness of the inhabitants. Honey 
forms no insignificant article of rural produce; but the chief 
object is the breeding of cattle in the extensive pastures. 
The forests and mines furnish materials for a considerable 
export trade in wood, tar, pitch, iron, and copper; some 
silver and lead are occasionally to be found, but no mines 
of these metals are wrought. This province had the honour 
of giving birth to Linnaeus. 
SMALCALDEN, a district in the west of Germany, be¬ 
longing to Hesse-Cassel, but lying considerably to the east of 
the rest of the electorate, being adjacent to Saxe-Gotha and 
Saxe-Meinungen. Its territorial extent is 115 square miles; 
its population 22,000, almost all Lutherans. It is a very 
mountainous country, and contains mines of iron and coal, 
which, with the manufacture of salt from brine springs, 
affords employment to the inhabitants. The exports consist 
chiefly of hardware, potash, and white lead. 
SMALCALDEN, the chief town of the above district, is 
situated on a river of the same name, not far from the Werra. 
It contains a castle, three suburbs, and 4700 inhabitants. 
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About four miles from the town is a hill called Stahlberg, 
with mines of iron, which is converted into steel, and manu¬ 
factured in the town into knives, awls, needles, and other 
hardware. In the neighbourhood there are several salt¬ 
works. In the 16th century, the Protestant princes of the 
empire held several meetings here, in which they adopted 
resolutions of great importance to their cause: it was in 1531 
that they formed here the famous league to defend the liber¬ 
ties of the empire against the encroachments of Charles V., 
and sanctioned the confession of faith drawn up by Luther. 
Cellarius, the well known geographer, was a native of this 
place; 56 miles south-west of Cassel, and 9 north of Mei- 
nungen. 
SMALCALDEN, Little, a town of Germany, in the 
Henneberg; 4 miles west from Smalcalden. It is divided 
by a rivulet into two parts, one of which, containing 900 
inhabitants, belongs to the elector of Hesse; the other, con¬ 
taining 600, to Saxe-Gotha. The inhabitants manufacture 
hardware. 
SMALCIUS (Valentine), a celebrated writer in favour 
of Unitarianism, was born in Thuringia, and died at Cra¬ 
cow, in Poland, in 1622. His principal work was “ A 
Treatise on the Divinity of Christ,’’ written in the Latin 
language, and printed in 1608. 
SMALESMOUTH, a hamlet of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 21 miles north-west of Hexham. 
SMALL, adj. [bmal, Saxon; smal, Dutch; smaa, 
Icelandic.]—Little in quantity. 
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, 
The mighty soul how small a body holds. Dry den. 
All numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, 
and giving to the whole together a distinct name, whereby 
to distinguish it from every smaller or greater multitude of 
units. Locke. —The ordinary smallest measure we have is 
looked on as an unit in number. Locke. —Little in degree. 
—There arose no small stir about that way.—Little in 
importance.—Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my 
husband ? Genesis. —Some men’s behaviour is like a verse, 
wherein every syllable is measured: how can a man com¬ 
prehend great matters that breaketh his mind too much to 
small observations? Bacon. — Small is the subject, but 
not so the praise. Pope. —Little in the principal quality : 
as small beer; not strong; weak.—Gentle ; soft; melo¬ 
dious. 
The company answered all 
With voices sweet entuned, and so small. 
That me thought it the sweetest melody. 
That ever I heard in my life soothly. Chaucer. 
SMALL, s. The narrow part of any thing. It is 
particularly applied to the part of the leg below the calf.— 
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. 
To SMALL, v. a. To make little or less. Obsolete. 
SMALL ISLES, a parish of Scotland, in the Hebrides, 
comprehending the islands of Eigg, Rum, Canna, and Muck. 
Population 1547. 
SMALL KEY, a small island in the Eastern seas. Lat. 10. 
37. N. long. 247. 16. W. 
SMALL, Point, a point of the United States, on the 
coast of Liu coin county, forming the east limit of Casco bay. 
SMALL POINT, Cape, a cape of North America, on 
the coast of Maine. Lat. 43. 38. N. long. 69.50. W. 
SMA'LLAGE, s. [from small age, because it soon 
withers. Skinner. A plant. It is a species of parsley, and 
a common weed by the sides of ditches and brooks. 
SMALLBURGH, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 5J 
miles north-east of Coltishall. Population 638. - 
SMA'LLCOAL, s. Formerly little wood coals used to 
light fires; now the dust of the larger coal.—A smallcoal 
man, by waking one of these distressed gentlemen, saved 
him from ten years’ imprisonment. Spectator. 
SMA'LLCRAFT, s. A little vessel below the denomina¬ 
tion of ship. . 
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