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Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke: 
Yet in some things, methinks, she fails, 
’Twere well, if she would pare her nails, 
And wear a cleaner smock. Pope. 
Smock is used in a ludicrous kind of composition for any 
thing relating to women. 
Plague on his .swoc/i-loyalty f 
I hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted, 
Made sour and senseless, turn’d to whey by love. Dryden. 
SMOCKFA'CED, adj. Palefaced; maidenly; effemi¬ 
nate. 
Old chiefs reflecting on their former deeds, 
Disdain to rust with batter’d invalids; 
But active in the foremost ranks appear, 
And leave young smock-fac'd beaux to guard the rear. 
Fenton. 
SMOCKFRO'CK, 5. A gaberdine. 
SMO'CKLESS, adj. Wanting a smock. 
I hope it be not your entent, 
That I smokies out of your paleis went. Chaucer. 
SMOCICSHOP INDIANS, a tribe of North America, on 
the Columbia, about 800 in number. 
SMOCKV1LLE, a post township of the United States, in 
Jefferson county, Indiana. 
SMOKE, s. (jmoc, pmc, jmec, Saxon; smoek, Su. 
Goth.; from j'mican and smoeka, fumare, fumigarei] The 
visible effluvium, or sooty exhalation from any thing burn¬ 
ing. 
As smoke that rises from the kindling fires, 
Is seen this moment, and the next expires. Prior. 
Smoke, Sir Isaac Newton observes, ascends in the chimney 
by the impulse of the air it floats in: for that air, being 
rarefied by the fire underneath, has its specific gravity di¬ 
minished; and thus, being determined to ascend itself, it 
carries up the smoke along with it. 
In the Philosophical Transactions, Abr. v. 192., we have 
the description of an engine, invented by Monsieur Dalesme, 
which consumes the smoke of all sorts of wood, and that so 
totally, that the most curious eye cannot discover it in the 
room, nor the nicest nose smell it, though the fire be 
made in the middle of the room. 
To SMOKE, v. n. [j-mecan, pnican. Sax.] To emit a 
dark exhalation by heat.—When the sun went down, a 
smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those 
pieces. Gen. 
For Venus, Cytherea was invok’d. 
Altars for Pallas to Athena smok'd. Granville. 
To burn; to be kindled. A scriptural term. —The an¬ 
ger of the Lord shall smoke against that man. Deut. —To 
move with such swiftness as to kindle; to move very fast so 
as to raise dust like smoke. 
Aventinus drives his chariot round ; 
Proud of his steeds he smokes along the field ; 
His father’s hydra fills the ample shield. Dryden. 
To smell, or hunt out.—I began to smoke that they were 
a parcel of mummers. Addison .—To use tobacco. To 
suffer; to be punished. 
Maugre all the world will I keep safe, 
Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Shatspeare. 
To SMOKE, v. a. To scent by smoke; to medicate by 
smoke, or dry in smoke.—A gambon of bacon smoked. 
Huloet. —To expel by smoke.—This king, upon that out¬ 
rage against his person, smoked the Jesuits out of his nest. 
Sir E. Sandys. —To smell out; to find out.—He was first 
smoked by the old lord; when his disguise and he is parted, 
■what a sprat you shall find him ? Shakspeare.— To sneer; 
to ridicule to the face. [ <ry.ux u > Gr. conviciori ]—Thou’rt 
very Smart, my dear: but see, smoke the doctor 1 Addison. 
To SMOKE-DRY, v. a. To dry by smoke.— Smoke- 
dry the fruit, but not if you plant them. Mortimer. 
Vox. XXIII. No. 1572. 
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SMOKEHILL, a river of the United States, in Louisiana, 
which runs into the Kansas. 
SMOKER, s. One that dries or perfumes by smoke. 
One that uses tobacco. 
SMOKELESS, adj. Having no smoke. 
Tenants with sighs the smokeless tow’rs survey, 
And turn th’ unwilling steed another way. 
SMOKILY, adv. So as to be full of smoke. 
SMOKY, adj. Emitting smoke; fumid. 
Victorious to the top aspires. 
Involving all the wood in smoky fires. 
Having the appearance or nature of smoke. 
If blast septentrional with brushing wings 
Sweep up the smoky mists, and vapours damp, 
Then woe to mortals. 
Noisome with smoke. 
O he’s as tedious 
As a tir’d horse, or as a railing wife, 
Worse than a smoky house. Shakspeare. 
Dark; obscure. Unused. 
SMOLENSK©, a government or province of the Russian 
empire, to the west of the government of Moscow, between 
53. 30. and 56. 25. of N. latitude, and 30. 50. and 35. 30. 
of E. longitude. Its territorial extent is 21,400 square miles; 
its inhabitants, calculated at 1,050,000, are mostly Russians, 
with some Poles, Germans, and Jews; the majority are 
members of the church. The surface is generally level; for 
though it contains some heights, these are not of great size 
or extent. The principal rivers are the Duna, Dnieper, the 
Desna, the Sosha, the Kasplia, the Uga, and the Viasma. 
The lakes are also numerous, being reckoned at more than 
100, great and small. The climate is cold, but healthy. 
The soil consists of a mixture of clay or sand, with black 
mould, and is on the whole tolerably fertile. Corn, hemp, 
and flax, are cultivated extensively. Horses, black cattle, 
and sheep, are numerous, and of good breeds. A great part 
of the uncultivated land is covered by forests. The rivers 
supplying the means of conveyance, the exportation of the 
various agricultural products of this fertile province gives rise 
to an active traffic. The manufactures, on the other hand, 
are quite insignificant, and the distilling of spirituous liquors 
is the only one carried on on a large scale. This government 
corresponds to White Russia, properly so called. It was 
ceded by Poland in 1667, and the cession confirmed in 
1686. 
SMOLENSKO, a considerable town of European Russia, 
and the capital of the above government. It is built partly 
on two hills, and partly in a valley between them, which is 
watered by the Dnieper, here a navigable stream flowing 
from east to west. The part to the south of that river is sur¬ 
rounded with a massy wall 30 feet in height, 15 thick, and 
a mile and three quarters in circuit. The lower part of this 
wall is of stone, the upper of brick, and at each angle is a 
large tower. The whole is surrounded with a ditch and a 
sort of covered way; and some modern redoubts have been 
erected as outworks. Smolensko is thus a place of some 
strength, and standing on the great road to Moscow, the 
Russians made here their first serious opposition to the ad¬ 
vance of the French, in the campaign of 1812. An obsti¬ 
nate conflict took place on the 16th and 17th of August, in 
which the town was bombarded and set on fire. The Rus¬ 
sians were compelled to fall back, and the French extin¬ 
guished the flames; but on quitting it in their disastrous 
retreat in November following, they blew up part of the 
works; and as most of the houses were of wood, about the 
half of them were destroyed on these two occasions. 
Smolensko is thinly inhabited, containing within its cir¬ 
cumference several large gardens; the houses are generally 
of one story, and the population is supposed not to exceed 
12,600. One large street divides it into two, and is paved 
with stone; but the others are paved, or rather floored, with 
planks. The part rebuilt since 1812 is of a good construction, 
and the number of public edifices is considerable. Here are 
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Pope. 
Sherwood. 
Dryden. 
Philips. 
