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Shall he before me sign, whom t’ other day 
A smallcraft vessel hither did convey ; 
Where stain’d with prunes, and rotten figs, he lay. Dry den. 
SMALLEY, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 6 | 
miles north-east of Derby. Population 646. 
SMALL HOLM, a parish of Scotland, in the county of 
Roxburgh, of an irregular triangular form, and in length 
about 4 miles. Population 455. 
SMA'LLISH, adj. Somewhat small. 
His shulderis of large brede; 
And, smalish in the girdelstede, 
He semed like a purtreiture. Chaucer. 
SMALLPO'X, s. An eruptive distemper of great malig¬ 
nity; variola;. See Pathology. —He fell sick of the 
smallpox. Wiseman. 
SMALLS, The, rocks in the Irish sea, on which a light¬ 
house is erected for the direction of seamen, about 15 miles 
south-west from St. David’s Head. Lat. 51. 44. N. long. 5. 
33. W. 
SMALLWOOD, a township of England, county of Ches¬ 
ter ; 3 miles east-by-south of Sandbach. Population 496. 
SMA'LLY, adv. In a little quantity ; with minuteness; 
in a little or low degree. Unused. —A child that is still, and 
somewhat hard of wit, is never chosen by the father to be 
made a scholar, or else, when he cometh to the school, is 
smally regarded. Ascham. 
SMA'LNESS, s. Littleness; not greatness.—The parts 
in glass are evenly spread, but are not so close as in gold; 
as we see by the easy admission of light, and by the smalness 
of the weight. Bacon. —The smalness of the rays of light 
may contribute very much to the power of the agent by 
which they are refracted. Newton. —Want of strength ; 
weakness.—Gentleness; softness: as, “ the smalness of a 
woman’s voice.” Barret. 
SMALT, s. [ smalto , Ital., smaelta, smelta, to melt, Su. 
Goth.]—A beautiful blue substance, produced from two parts 
of zaffre being fused with three parts common salt, and one 
part potash. Hill. —Blue glass. 
SMA'RAGD, s. [smaragde, old French; ago.oar/to 
Gr.] The emerald.—The fourth was of a smaragde or an 
emerald. Bale. 
SMA'RAGDINE, adj. Made of emerald; resembling 
emerald. 
SMARAGDUS MONS, in Ancient Geography, a moun¬ 
tain of Egypt, on the coast of the Arabic gulf, between 
Nechesia and Lepte Extrema, according to Ptolemy. 
SMARDEN, a village and parish, formerly a market 
town of England, in Kent, situated by the Medway; 8 miles 
north-east of Cambrook, and 56 south-east-by-east of Lon¬ 
don. Population 890. 
SMARIS, in Ichthyology, the name of a small fish caught 
in the Mediterranean, and common in the markets of Rome, 
Venice, and elsewhere, and sold to the poorer sort of people 
at a very small price. This, in the Linnsean system, is a 
species of the Sparus ; which see * 
It is seldom of more than a finger’s length, and of a round, 
not flattened body, of a dusky blackish-green on the back 
and sides, and not marked with any variegations, but having 
on each side, near the middle of the body, one large black 
spot; its gill-fins and tail are of a faint red; the iris of the 
eyes is of a brownish-white, and the tail is forked. 
SMART, s. [jmeopca, Saxon ; stnert, Dutch; smarta, 
Swedish.]—Quick, pungent, lively pain.—Then her mind, 
though too late, by the smart, was brought to think of the 
disease. Sidney. —Pain ; corporal or intellectual.—It in¬ 
creased the smart of his present sufferings, to compare them 
with his former happiness. Atterhury. 
To SMART, v. n. [jrneopcan, Saxon; smerten, Dutch.] 
To feel quick lively pain.—When a man’s wounds cease to 
smart, only because he has lost his feeling, they are never¬ 
theless mortal. South. —To feel pain of body or mind. 
No creature smarts so little as a fool. 
Let peals of laughter, Codrus! round thee break, 
Thou unconcem’d canst hear the mighty crack. Pope. 
SMART, adj. Pungent; sharp; causing smart.—How 
smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! Shak- 
speare. —Quick; vigorous; active.—That day was spent in 
smart skirmishes, in which many fell. Clarendon. —Pro¬ 
ducing any effect with force and vigour. 
After showers. 
The stars shine smarter, and the moon adorns. 
As with unborrow’d beams, her sharpen’d horns. Dryden. 
Acute; witty.—It was a smart reply that Augustus made 
to one that ministered this comfort of the fatality of things: 
this was so far from giving any ease to his mind, that it was 
the very thing that troubled him. Tillotson. —Brisk; viva¬ 
cious; lively.—You may see a smart rhetorician turning 
his hat in his hands, during the whole course of his harangue. 
A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver. Ad¬ 
dison. 
SMART, s. A fellow affecting briskness and vivacity. 
An old cant word. 
SMART (Peter), a native of Warwickshire, was edu¬ 
cated at Westminster School, from whence he removed to 
Oxford, and became a student of Christchurch. After en¬ 
tering orders, he obtained a prebend in Durham cathedral, 
where he distinguished himself by his opposition to the 
ceremonies in religion, and the removal of the altar from 
the middle of the choir to the east end of the church. He 
preached and printed some sermons on the vanity and 
downfall of superstition and popish ceremonies, for which he 
was degraded from the ministry, and imprisoned. He died in 
1642. He was likewise author of poems, Latin and English, 
SMART (Christopher), a poet, bom in 1722, at Ship- 
bourne, in Kent, was educated at Maidstone and Durham 
schools, and at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He died in 
1771, leaving behind him a widow and two daughters, who 
settled as booksellers at Reading. His works consist of 
fables, sonnets, odes, prize-poems, &c., printed at Reading, 
in 2 vols. 12mo. 1791. He published a prose translation of 
the works of Horace, and translations in verse of the Psalms, 
and of the fables of Phaedrus. Recently (1827), a work by 
this author, and which has been long lost, has been discovered 
and published. It is said to contain passages of consider¬ 
able beauty. 
To SMA'RTEN, v. a. To make smart or showy: an 
unauthorized term. 
To SMA'RTLE, v. n. To smartle away, is to waste or 
melt away. North. 
SMA'RTLY, adv. After a smart manner; sharply; 
briskly; vigorously; wittily.—The art, order, and gravity 
of those proceedings, where short, severe, constant rules were 
set, and smartly pursued, made them less taken notice of. 
Clarendon. 
SMA'RTNESS, .s-. The quality of being smart; quick¬ 
ness ; vigour.—What interest such a smartness in striking 
the air hath in the production of sound, may in some mea¬ 
sure appear by the motion of a bullet, and that of a switch 
or other wand, which produce no sound, if they do but 
slowly pass through the air; whereas if the one do smartly 
strike the air, and the other be shot out of a gun, the celerity 
of their percussions on the air puts it into an undulating mo¬ 
tion, which, reaching the ear, produces an audible noise. 
Boyle. —Liveliness; briskness; wittiness.—I defy all the 
clubs to invent a new phrase, equal in wit, humour, smart¬ 
ness, or politeness, to my set. Swift. 
To SMASH, v. a. [smaccare, Ital. to crush; schmeissen. 
Germ, to throw, to cast down.] To break in pieces. 
To SMATCH, v. n. To have a taste. Obsolete. 
SMATCH, in Ornithology, a name by which the com¬ 
mon cenanthe is called in many parts of England. 
To SMA'TTER, v. n. [corrupted from stnack or taste, 
according to Dr. Johnson. Serenius and Jamieson refer it 
to the Icel. smaedr, contemptus, diminutus, from srnaa, 
smatt, small.] To have a slight taste; to have a slight, su¬ 
perficial, and imperfect knowledge. To talk superficially or 
ignorantly. 
In proper terms, such as men smatter. 
When they throw out and miss the matter. Hudibras . 
SMA'TTER, 
