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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A loose coatlike outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes while working.
  • transitive verb To clothe in a smock.
  • transitive verb To decorate (fabric) with smocking.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A garment worn by women corresponding to the shirt worn by men: a chemise; a shift.
  • noun A smock-frock.
  • Belonging or relating to women; characteristic of women; female: common in old writers.
  • To provide with or clothe in a smock or smock-frock.
  • To shir or pucker. See smocking.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
  • noun A blouse; a smoock frock.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
  • adjective a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.
  • adjective [Prov. Eng.] a race run by women for the prize of a smock.
  • transitive verb To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
  • noun A blouse.
  • noun A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
  • adjective Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
  • verb transitive To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson.
  • verb transitive To apply smocking.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
  • verb embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, woman's undergarment, from Old English smoc.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English smoc; akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkr, and from the root of Old English smgan ("to creep"), akin to German schmiegen ("to cling to, press close"). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjga ("to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through"); compare with Lithuanian smukti ("to glide"). See also smug, smuggle.

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