Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip.
Shak.
Smil"ing*ly, adv. In a smiling manner. Shak.
Smil"ing*ness, n. Quality or state of being smiling.
And made despair a smilingness assume.
Byron.
Smi"lo*don (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; a carving knife + &?;&?;&?;,
&?;&?;&?;, tooth.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers.
See Mach&?;rodus.
Smilt (?), v. i. To melt. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Smin*thu"rid (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; a mouse + &?;&?;&?; tail.] (Zoöl.)
Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family
Sminthuridæ, -- usually found on flowers. See Illust. under Collembola.
Smirch (?), v. t. [From the root of smear.] To smear with something
which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face.
Shak.
Smirch (?), n. A smutch; a dirty stain.
Smirk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smirked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Smirking.]
[OE. smirken, ASS. smercian, smearcian; cf. MHG. smieren, smielen, to
smile. See Smile, v. i.] To smile in an affected or conceited manner;
to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.
Smirk, n. A forced or affected smile; a simper.
The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.
Sir W. Scott.
Smirk, a. Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering. "So smirk, so
smooth." Spenser.
Smirk"ing*ly, adv. With smirking; with a smirk.
Smirk"y (?), a. Smirk; smirking.
Smit (?), rare imp. & p. p. of Smite. Spenser.
Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene.
Cowper.
Smit, obs. 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite. Chaucer.
Smite (smt), v. t. [imp. Smote (smt), rarely Smit (smt); p. p. Smitten
(smt"t'n), rarely Smit, or Smote; p. pr. & vb. n. Smiting (smt"ng).]
[AS. smtan to smite, to soil, pollute; akin to OFries. smta to smite,
LG. smiten, D. smijten, G. schmeissen, OHG. smzan to smear, stroke,
OSw. & dial. Sw. smita to smite, Dan. smide to throw, Goth. bismeitan,
to anoint, besmear; cf. Skr. md to be fat. The original sense seems to
have been, to daub on, to smear. Cf. Smut.] 1. To strike; to inflict a
blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or
with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a
rod, sword, spear, or stone.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
other also.
Matt. v. 39.
And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the
Philistine in his forehead.