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Here, in cabal, a disputatious crew. 
Each evening meet 5 the sot, the cheat, the shrew : 
Snarers and smugglers here their gains divide, 
Ensnaring females here their victims hide. Cradle. 
SMU'GGLING, s. Smuggling, or the offence of im¬ 
porting goods without paying the duties imposed by the laws 
of the customs and excise, is restrained by a great variety of 
statutes. Blackstone. 
SMU'GLY, ado. Neatly; sprucely. 
Lillies and roses will quickly appear. 
And her face will look wond’rous smugly. Gay. 
SMU'GNESS, s. Spruceness; neatness without ele¬ 
gance. 
SMU'LY, ad/. [A corruption of smoothly .] Looking 
smoothly; demure. Used in Cumberland. 
SMUT, s. [jmitca, Sax.; smette, Dutch.] A spot made 
with soot or coal.—Must or blackness gathered on corn; 
mildew.—Farmers have suffered by smutty wheat, when such 
will not sell for above five shillings a bushel; whereas that 
which is free from smut will sell for ten. Mortimer .— 
Obscene conversation. 
To SMUT, v. a. [ymiccan, Saxon.] To stain; to mark 
with soot or coal.—I am wonderfully pleased to see my 
tenants play their innocent tricks, and smutting one ano¬ 
ther. Addison. —To taint with mildew—Mildew falleth 
upon corn, and smutteth it. Bacon. See Smittle. 
To SMUT, u. n. To gather must.—White red-eared wheat 
is good for clays, and bears a very good crop, and seldom 
smuts. Mortimer. 
To SMUTCH, v. a. [for smut. This word is further cor¬ 
rupted, in the north of England, into smudge; where it is used 
for a suffocating smoke.] To black with smoke; to mark with 
soot or coal.—What, hast smutch'd thy nose? Shakspeare. 
Have you seen but a bright lily grow. 
Before rude hands have touch’d it ? 
Ha’ you mark’d but the fall o’ the snow. 
Before the soil hath smutch'd it! B. Jonson. 
SMU'TTILY, adv. Blackly; smokily; obscenely.—It is 
the same poverty which makes men speak or write smuttily, 
that forces them to talk vexingly. Tatler. 
SMU'TTINESS, s. Soil from smoke.—My vines and 
peaches, upon my best south walls, were apt to a soot or 
smuttiness upon their leaves and upon their fruits, which 
were good for nothing. Temple —Obsceneness. 
SMUTTY, adj. Black with smoke or coal.—I leave the 
smutty air of London, and come hither to breathe sweeter. 
Howell. —Tainted with mildew. — Smutty corn will sell 
dearer at one time than the clean at another. Locke. —Ob¬ 
scene ; not modest.—I must forbear blurting out a witty 
saying, if it be smutty or abusive. Horncch. 
SMYRNA, a large and commercial city of Asia Minor, 
situated at the head of a long and winding gulf of the Gre¬ 
cian Archipelago. Smyrna is one of the most celebrated 
of the ancient cities of Asia, and claims, on pretty strong 
grounds, to be the birth-place of Homer. It is said origin¬ 
ally to have been a colony from Ephesus, and soon attained 
to such a degree of prosperity, that it was received as the 
thirteenth city of Ionia. This original city, however, was 
destroyed by the Lydians; and the population continued 
dispersed in the neighbouring villages, till Antigonus and 
Lysimachus rebuilt it, though on a somewhat different spot. 
Its new splendour seems to have even surpassed what it for¬ 
merly displayed: the streets were beautifully laid out, well- 
paved, and adorned with porticos ; the city contained also 
a gymnasium, a library, and a structure called the Home- 
rium, consisting of a temple and portico dedicated to 
Homer, with a statue of that poet. Smyrna has ever since 
continued a flourishing city, and in modern times has been 
particularly distinguished for its trade, which is so extensive 
as to make it be considered the emporium of the Levant. 
The present town is about four miles in circuit, and extends 
about a mile along the water, in approaching from which it 
makes a very beautiful appearance. The bay is so com- 
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pletely land-locked, that nothing is seen from the town 
but the projecting points that inclose it. The interior, as 
usual in Asiatic cities, does not correspond to the splen¬ 
dour of its approach. The streets are narrow, dirty and 
ill paved. The bazaars, though well provided with goods, 
are by no means splendid in their structure. There are two 
very fine caravanseras inclosing square courts, and which 
being covered with cupolas, make a very handsome appear¬ 
ance. The besesteins, or shops, also are arched over, and 
very fine. Although the external appearance of the houses 
be gloomy, the situation of those built along the water is 
very delightful, as they have all gardens attached to them, at 
the foot of which are summer-houses overlooking the sea. 
At the east end of the city is a large hill, about three quarters 
of a mile in circumference, on which the castle was built. 
This edifice appears to have been constructed by the Genoese, 
and to have been by no means distinguished by any extra¬ 
ordinary magnificence. Along its circuit, however, may 
still be traced the remains of a very thick and strong wall, 
apparently that of the ancient castle, and corresponding in 
its dimensions with another, which appears to have sur¬ 
rounded the whole city. Of the sumptuous edifices which 
rendered Smyrna one of the brightest ornaments of the 
Lesser Asia, scarcely any remains can now be traced. The 
reason seems justly pointed out by Pococke, in the circum¬ 
stance of so great a new city being built on the site of the 
old ; whence all the ancient structures have been demolished, 
to serve as materials for the modern ones. Only the founda¬ 
tions can be seen of the splendid theatre, on the slope of 
the hill, and the site of which is now covered with houses. 
On a gateway belonging to the castle is a colossal statue of 
very fine workmanship, though much mutilated, which has 
been supposed to be that of the Amazon Smyrna, from whom 
the city is reported to have derived its name. Marks of a 
very extensive aqueduct may also be traced, though a late 
• traveller doubts if it be of very high antiquity. Behind the 
city is an extensive and most luxuriant plain, highly cul¬ 
tivated, and covered with numberless olive trees. It is 
watered by the river Meles, which is here from 50 to 100 
yards broad, but contains little water, unless when artificially 
confined. The chief inconvenience in the situation of 
Smyrna is its being extremely liable to earthquakes, which 
from time to time cause some injury and great alarm to the 
inhabitants. A heavier calamity, common to it with all the 
oriental cities, is the plague. In 1814 this disease produced 
such ravages, that its victims were estimated at from 50,000 
to 60,000. The inhabitants of Smyrna are usually reckoned 
at 100,000, of whom Mr. Turner supposes the Turks to 
amount to between 50,000 and 60,000; the Greeks to 
30,000, the Armenians to 8000, and the Franks or Euro¬ 
peans to 2000 or 3000. The latter form a more numerous 
and agreeable society than in any other Turkish town. The 
export trade of Smyrna consists of very rich commodities; 
raw silk, Turkey carpets, unwrought cotton, and the beau¬ 
tiful goats’ hair or mohair of Angora, which is used in several 
of our finer manufactures. It sends out also a considerable 
quantity of raisins, a little muscadine wine, and a variety of 
drugs, as rhubarb, amber, musk, lapis lazuli, and gums. A 
certain number of pearls, diamonds, and other precious 
stones, are also exported. The imports are chiefly woollen 
cloths, lead, tin, glass, and wrought silks. Lat. 38. 29. N 
long. 27. 4. 45. E. 
SMYRNA, a post township of the United States, in Che¬ 
nango county, New York; 105 miles west of Albany. Po¬ 
pulation 1334. 
SMYRNA, formerly Duck Creek or Salisbury, a* 
post township of the United States, in Kent county, Dela¬ 
ware, on Duck Creek, about 10 miles above its mouth. 
Population 600. 
SMYRNIUM [2/xypvi ov of Dioscorides, from the city of 
Smyrna; or, from trgvpva the same with gvooct, the root 
yielding a gum like myrrh], in Botany, a genus of the class 
pentandria, order digynia, natural order of umbellatae or 
umbelliferae.—Generic Character. Calyx: umbel universal, 
unequal, becoming daily bigger. Partial erect. Involucre 
universal, 
