A small loach.

small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. The hooded merganser.

Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.

Amorous glance or inclination.

A woman's under-garment; a smock.

Smugly; finically.

A smithy.

A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

To smite.

See Parrilin.

A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.

Not having a smile.

One who smiles.

A little smile.

In a smiling manner.

Quality or state of being smiling.

An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.

To melt.

Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family Sminthuridae, -- usually found on flowers. See Illust. under Collembola.

A smutch; a dirty stain.

Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.

With smirking; with a smirk.

Smirk; smirking.

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.

The act of smiting; a blow.

One who smites.

To beat into shape; to forge.

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing.

Light, fine rain.

Fragments; atoms; smithers.

The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape.

Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. The Smithsonian Institution.

Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.

The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.

Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.

p. p. of Smite.

Infection.

Infectious; catching.

To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.

Lacking a smock.

Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

To drive from a refuge or hiding place by causing dense smoke or other noxious fumes to permeate the refuge; as, the police smoked out the bank robbers with tear gas.

To dry by or in smoke.

A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Making or having no smoke.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

In a smoky manner.

The quality or state of being smoky.

a. n. from Smoke.

Incontrovertible evidence; convincing evidence.

Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.

A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

See Smutch.

To suffocate or smother.

Having a smooth chin; beardless.

Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.

Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.

Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. A smoothbore firearm.

To make smooth.

One who, or that which, smooths.

fr. Smooth, v.

In a smooth manner.

Quality or state of being smooth.

To smother. See Smoor.

Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.

imp. (/ rare p. p.) of Smite.

Dirty; foul.

Stifling smoke; thick dust.

The quality or state of being smothery.

In a smothering manner.

Tending to smother; stifling.

A dark soil or stain; a smutch.

See Smolder.

Smoke; smother.

Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.

The state of smoldering.

See Smoldry.

Smoldering; suffocating; smothery.

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.

To make smug, or spruce.

To import or export in violation of the customs laws.

One who smuggles.

In a smug manner.

The quality or state of being smug.

To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

Snuff.

Soiled with smut; smutted.

Of or pertaining to Smyrna. A native or inhabitant of Smyrna.

A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.

See Snecket.

A pipefish of the genus Syngnathus. See Pipefish.

To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

Full of snags; snaggy.

Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail. Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

In the manner of a snail; slowly.

Slow-moving, like a snail.

See Sea snail (a).

To crawl like a snake.

The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.

Same as Adder's-tongue.

Any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus Anhinga or Plotus. They are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills.

The band fish. The lizard fish.

A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

The snakebird, 1.

Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.

A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.

A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta). The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.

An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent. An East Indian climbing shrub (Ophioxylon serpentinum) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents. Same as Trumpetwood. A tropical American shrub (Plumieria rubra) which has very fragrant red blossoms. Same as Letterwood.

Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.