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longer than the petiole.—Native of Canada and of the woods 
of Cochin-china. 
III.-—Stem unarmed, angular. 
11. Smilax bona nox, or ciliated smilax.—Stem unarmed, 
angular; leaves ciliate-prickly —Native of North America. 
12. Smilax herbacea, or herbaceous smilax.—Stem un¬ 
armed, angular; leaves unarmed, ovate, seven-nerved.— 
Native of North America. 
13. Smilax tetragona, or square-stalked smilax.—Stem 
unarmed, four-cornered; leaves cordate, five-nerved, acu¬ 
minate, unarmed. 
IV.—Stem unarmed, round. 
14. Smilax lanceolata, or spear-leaved smilax.—Stem un¬ 
armed, round; leaves unarmed, lanceolate.—Native of Virgi¬ 
nia, Carolina and Cochin-china. 
15. Smilax pseudo-China, or bastard Chinese smilax.— 
Stem unarmed, round ; leaves unarmed ; stem-leaves cordate 5 
branch-leaves ovate-oblong, five-nerved. Stem shrubby, 
very long, slender, with a few scandent branches.—Native of 
Virginia, Jamaica, China and Cochin-china. 
16. Smilax ripogonum.—Stem unarmed, round, rooting ; 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, five-nerved; flowers 
hermaphrodite.—Native of New Zealand. 
17. Smilax purpurata.—Stem shrubby, unarmed, round, 
dichotomous; leaves cordate-acute, acuminate, clawed, quite 
entire, five-nerved; peduncles axillary, umbelliferous.—Na¬ 
tive of New Caledonia. 
18. Smilax aristolochiaefolia. —• Stem prickly, round ; 
leaves unarmed, sagittate, bluntish, three-nerved.—Found at 
Vera La Cruz, in New Spain. 
19. Smilax spinosa.—Stem prickly, round ; leaves ovate- 
lanceolate ; nerves of the leaves prickly underneath.—Found 
at La Vera Cruz. 
20. Smilax Virginiana.—Stem prickly, angular; leaves 
lanceolate, unarmed, acuminate.—Grows naturally in Ja¬ 
maica. 
21. Smilax canellaefolia.—Stem unarmed, round; leaves 
unarmed, ovate, three-nerved.—Grows naturally in Jamaica. 
22. Smilax humilis.—Stem unarmed, round; leaves un¬ 
armed, ovate-cordate, three-nerved; flowers corymb.— 
Grows naturally in Carolina. 
23. Smilax hederaefolia.—Stem unarmed, round; leaves 
unarmed; stem-leaves cordate ; racemes ovate-oblong.— 
Grows naturally in Jamaica and also in Maryland. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are many of 
them preserved in the gardens of the curious for the sake of 
variety, but some of them may so be disposed as to make 
them ornamental, because those sorts which grow naturally 
in North America, and the two first sorts are so hardy as to. 
thrive in the open air in England; and as they retain their 
verdure all the year, if the plants are placed on the borders 
of woods or groves in gardens, and their branches properly 
supported, they will screen the nakedness of the ground under 
the trees from sight, and in winter, when their leaves are in 
beauty, they will make a pleasing variety, when the plants 
are properly intermixed with other evergreens; and as some of 
the sorts will rise five or six feet high, they will shut out from 
view any disagreeable objects. 
Those sorts which require a stove to protect them in winter 
are little esteemed, because they require much room; and 
as their flowers have no beauty to recommend them, few 
persons care to be at the trouble of preserving them for that 
of their leaves. 
They are all propagated by seeds, which must be pro¬ 
cured from the countries where they naturally grow, for 
there ar 6 none of these plants which produce ripe seeds 
here. 
To SMILE, v. n. [smuylen, Teut.; smila, Dan. and 
Swed. suhrulere. Sereniusi] To expand the face with 
pleasure; to express kindness, love, or gladness, by the 
countenance.—A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter, but 
a wise man doth scarce smile a little. Ecclus. 
The smiling infant in his hand shall take 
The crested basilisk and speckled snake. Pope, 
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To express slight contempt by the look. 
Should some more sober critic come abroad. 
If wrong, I smile; if right, I kiss the rod. Pope. 
To look gay or joyous. 
For see the morn, 
All unconcern’d with our unrest, begins 
Her rosy progress smiling. Milton. 
The desart smil'd. 
And paradise was open’d in the wild. Pope. 
To be favourable; to be propitious. 
Then let me not let pass 
Occasion which now smiles. Milton. 
To SMILE, v. a. To awe with a contemptuous smile. 
Unused. 
The courtly Roman’s smiling path to tread. 
And sharply smile prevailing folly dead. Young . 
SMILE, s. A slight expansion of the face; a look of 
pleasure or kindness. 
Sweet intercourse 
Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow. 
To brute denied, and are of love the food. Milton. 
Gay or joyous appearance. 
Yet what avail her unexhausted stores. 
Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. 
With all the gifts that heav’n and earth impart, 
The smiles of nature and the charms of art. Addison. 
SMI'LER, s. One who smiles. 
Know, smiler, at thy peril thou art pleas’d; 
Thy pleasure is the promise of thy pain. Young. 
SMI'LINGLY, adv. With a look of pleasure. 
His flaw’d heart, 
’Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief. 
Burst smilingly. Shakspcare, 
To SMILT, v. n. [corrupted from smelt .] Having too 
much water, many corns will smilt, or have their pulp 
turned into a substance like thick cream. Mortimer. 
SMINTHEAN, Smintheus, a-pivde 1 /?, in Antiquity, an 
epithet given to Apollo; from the Greek <ruiv8o<;, a rat. 
There are two different accounts of the origin of this ap¬ 
pellation : the first is, that, in the city of Chrysa in Mysia, 
was a priest of Apollo, called Crinis, with whom that god 
being offended, sent a herd of rats to spoil all his lands; but 
Crinis appeasing the deity, he came in person to his assist¬ 
ance, took up his lodgings with Crinis’s shepherd, told him 
who he was, and destroyed all the rats with his arrows; in 
memory of which Crinis built a temple to his deliverer, under 
the name of Apollo Smintheus. 
To SMIRCH, v. a. To cloud; to dusk ; to soil. 
I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire. 
And with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shakspcare. 
SMIRHILL, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 4 
miles south-south-west of Bakewell. 
To SMIRK, v. n. To look affectedly soft or kind. See 
Smerk. 
SMIT. The participle passive of smite. 
Fir’d with the views this glitt’ring scene displays, 
And smit with passion for my country’s praise, 
My artless reed attempts this lofty theme. 
Where sacred Isis rolls her ancient stream. TiclcelL 
To SMITE, v. a. pret. smote; part. pass, smit, smitten. 
[j'mitan, Saxon; smijten, Dutch.] To strike; to reach 
with a blow; to pierce. 
So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not 
To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, t 
As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote 
The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows. 
Shakspcare. 
The sword of Satan with sleep force to smite. 
Descending. Milton 
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