Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rank, rancid, or soiled butter.
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Examples
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In prior posts, I've been babbling about all these meanings applied to *mar-, *mer- or *smer- by Indo-Europeanists and how skeptical I am of one particular set of meanings in this clumsy word pile, that revolving around the notions of 'shimmer' and 'shine'.
The hidden face 2010
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Never before had any _smer_ or governor of the caravan who had appeared in the country of Amam opened up a road.
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Duke, a _smer uat_, a Kher-heb priest, a judge belonging to Nekhen, the
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His Majesty gave me the rank of _smer_ and deputy priest of his pyramid -- town.
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And he guided me on the roads of the plains of Arthet, because I was more perfect, and more watchful (or alert) than any other _smer_ or governor of a caravan who had ever been despatched to Amam.
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Royal despatch to the _smer uat_, the Kher-heb priest, the governor of the caravan, Herkhuf.
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[My] Majesty to see this pygmy orders have been brought to the _smer_, the overseer of the priests, the governor of the town ... to arrange that rations for him shall be drawn from every station of supply, and from every temple without ....
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H.smer; _Life_ of H.milton, by MORSE; _Life_ of Madison, by RIVES; W. Jay's _Life of John Jay_ (2 vols.); H. Von H.ist,
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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M. D'Eslon was more honest, because he thoroughly believed in the phenomena, which it is to be questioned if M.smer ever did, and regularly attended the sittings and performed experiments.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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_smer_, and many workmen laboured upon it, and its garden and its groves of trees were replanted with plants and trees.
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