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To SMOOTH, v. a. [pmeSian, Sax.] To level; to make 
even on the surface. 
Smiling she seem’d, and full of pleasing thought, 
From ocean as she first began to rise. 
And smooth'd the ruffled seas, and clear’d the skies. 
Dry den. 
To work into a soft uniform mass.—It brings up again 
into the mouth that which it had swallowed, and chewing it, 
grinds and smooths it, and afterwards swallows it into 
another stomach. Ray. —To make easy; to rid from 
obstructions. 
Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, 
And smooth my passage to the realms of day. Pope. 
To make flowing; to free from harshness. 
In their motions harmony divine 
So smooths her charming tones. Milton. 
To palliate; to soften. 
Had it been a stranger, not my child, 
To smooth his fault, I would have been more mild. 
Shahspeare. 
To calm ; to mollify. 
Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause, 
And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks. 
Shahspeare. 
To ease. 
Restor’d it soon will be ; the means prepar’d, 
The difficulty smooth'd, the danger shar’d: 
Be but yourself. Dry den. 
To flatter; to soften with blandishments. 
Because 1 cannot flatter, and look fair. 
Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, 
Duck with French nods, and apish courtesy, 
I must be held a rancorous enemy. Shahspeare. 
He smooths us up in the good opinion of our own 
gracious disposition. Bp. Hall. 
SMOOTH ISLAND, an island on the east coast of Van 
Diemen’s Land, in Norfolk Bay,* about three quarters of a 
mile long. 
To SMO'OTHEN, v. a. [pneSian, Saxon.] To make 
even and smooth.—With edged grooving tools they cut 
down and smoothen the extuberances left. Moxon. 
SMO'OTIIER, s. One who smooths, or frees from harsh¬ 
ness.—They were distinguished by the name of scalds, a 
word which denotes smoothers and polishers of language. 
Bp. Percy. 
SMO'OTHFACED, adj. Mild looking; having a soft air. 
Let their heirs 
Enrich their time to come with smooth fac'd peace, 
With smiling plenty, and fair prosp’rous days. Shahspeare. 
SMO'OTHLY, adv. Not roughly; evenly. 
Beneath the shade of flowing jet 
The ivory forehead smoothly set. Guardian. 
With even glide. 
The music of that murmuring spring 
Is not so mournful as the strains you sing; 
Nor rivers winding through the vales below 
So sweetly warble, or so smoothly flow. Pope. 
Without obstruction; easily; readily.—Had Joshua been 
mindful, the fraud of the Gibeonites could not so smoothly 
have past unespied, till there was no help. Hooker .—With 
soft and bland language. Mildly; innocently.—Some 
look’d full smoothly, and bad a false quart. Shelton .— 
Looking so smoothly and innocently on it, and so deceiving 
them. Moore. 
SMO'OTHNESS, s. Evenness on the surface; freedom 
from asperity.—A countryman feeding his flock by the sea¬ 
side, it was so delicate a fine day, that the smoothness of the 
water tempted him to set up for a merchant. L'Estrange. 
—Softness or mildness on the palate. 
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Fallacious drink! ye honest men beware, 
Nor trust its smoothness; the third circling glass 
Suffices virtue. Philips. 
Sweetness and softness of numbers.—Virgil, though 
smooth, where smoothness is required, is so far from affect¬ 
ing it, that he rather disdains it; frequently using synale- 
phas, and concluding his sense in the middle of his verse. 
Dry den. — Blandness and gentleness of speech. 
She is too subtle far; and her smoothness, 
Her very silence, and her patience. 
Speak to the people, and they pity her. Shahspeare. 
SMORZATO, a musical term, now superseded by dimin¬ 
uendo. 
SMOTE. The pret. of smite. —Death—with a trident 
smote. Milton. 
To SMO'THER, v. a. [pmopan, Saxon.] To suffocate 
with smoke, or by exclusion of the air. 
The helpless traveller, with wild surprise. 
Sees the dry desart all around him rise. 
And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. Addison. 
To suppress.—She was warmed with the graceful appear¬ 
ance of the hero: she smothered those sparkles out of 
decency, but conversation blew them up into a flame. 
Dryden. 
To SMO'THER, v. n. To smoke without vent.—Hay 
and straw have a very low degree of heat; but yet close and 
smothering, and which drieth not. Bacon. —To be sup¬ 
pressed or kept close.—The advantage of conversation is 
such, that, for want of company, a man had better talk 
to a post than let his thoughts lie smoking and smothering. 
Collier. 
SMO'THER, 5. A state of suppression. Not in use. — 
A man were better relate himself to a statue, than suffer his 
thoughts to pass in smother. Bacon. —Smoke ; thick dusk. 
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother. 
From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother. Shahspeare. 
SMOTHER-FLY, a provincial term applied to the bean 
aphis. 
To SMOUCH, v. a. To salute: answering to our buss. 
North.—- What bussing, what smouching and slabbering 
one of another. Stuhbes. 
To SMO'ULDER, v. a. To burn slowly without flame. 
SMO'ULDERING, or Smo'uldry, adj. [j mogan, Sax., 
to smother; smoel, Dutch, hot.] Burning and smoking 
without vent. 
None can breathe, nor see, nor hear at will. 
Through smouldry cloud of duskish stinking smoke. 
That the only breath him daunts who hath escap'd the stroke. 
Spenser. 
In some close pent room it crept along, 
And, smouldering as it went, in silence fed ; 
Till the infant monster, with devouring strong, 
Walk’d boldly upright with exalted head. Dryden. 
SMUG, adj. [the past participle of the Sax. pmaejan, 
jrneagan, deliberare, studere, considerare. Applied to the 
person, or to dress, it means studied. It appears to have 
been a common word in the northern languages.] Nice; 
spruce; dressed with affectation of niceness, but without 
elegance.—There I have a bankrupt for a prodigal, who 
dares scarce shew his head on the Rialto; a beggar that used 
to come so smug upon the mart. Shahspeare. 
To SMUG, v. a. To adorn; to spruce. 
My men, 
In Circe’s house, were all, in severall baine 
Studiously sweetn’d, smugg'd with oile, and deckt 
With in and outweeds. Chapman. 
To SMU'GGLE, v. a. [smohhelev, Dutch, which Sere- 
nius refers to the Su. Goth., smyga, smeiga, furtim rap- 
tare.] To import or export goods without paying the cus¬ 
toms.—To manage or convey secretly. 
SMU'GGLER, s. One who imports or exports goods 
without payment of the customs, or such as are forbidden. 
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