Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
smooth . - noun Same as
smew . - noun Same as
smee , 4.
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Examples
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He took the lease of a little furnace which had existed at the place for more than a century, as the records exist of a "smethe" or "smeth-house" at Coalbrookdale in the time of the Tudors.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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He took the lease of a little furnace which had existed at the place for more than a century, as the records exist of a "smethe" or "smeth-house" at Coalbrookdale in the time of the Tudors.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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Hee falleth; nowe bie heavenne thie woundes doe smethe [91];
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The forswat [24] meadowes smethe [25], and drenche [26] the raine; 30
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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