<B>smooth collie,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of collie with a short, smooth coat. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothdogfish">
<B>smooth dogfish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small shark of the Atlantic Ocean. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothen">
<B>smoothen, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make smooth or smoother. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to become smooth or smoother. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothfaced">
<B>smooth-faced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a smooth face; beardness; clean-shaven. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a smooth surface. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) agreeable in speech and manner, often insincerely; blandly ingratiating. <BR> <I>Ex. a smooth-faced hypocrite.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="smoothie">
<B>smoothie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a man who speaks or behaves in a polished manner, often insincerely, especially in trying to impress or court a woman. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothmuscle">
<B>smooth muscle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of muscle not contracted by voluntary action, with fibers in smooth layers or sheets; involuntary muscle. The muscles of the stomach, intestine, and other viscera (except the heart) are smooth muscles. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothskate">
<B>smooth skate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a skate of the Atlantic Ocean. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothspoken">
<B>smooth-spoken, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> speaking easily and pleasantly; blandly gracious or polished in speech. <BR> <I>Ex. a smooth-spoken young lady.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="smoothsumac">
<B>smooth sumac,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of sumac that is entirely without hair, commonly found east of the Rocky Mountains, from Arizona to British Columbia. </DL>
<A NAME="smoothtalking">
<B>smooth-talking, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> speaking smoothly and persuasively; trying to convince or persuade. <BR> <I>Ex. a smooth-talking salesman.</I> (SYN) glib. </DL>
<B>smoothy, </B>noun, pl. <B>smoothies.</B> =smoothie.</DL>
<A NAME="smorgasbord">
<B>smorgasbord, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>an elaborate Scandinavian luncheon or supper, with a large variety of meats, salads, fish, hors d'oeuvres, and the like, served from a buffet. <DD><B> b. </B>any buffet meal with a elaborate variety of food. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. But to combat the accompanying inflation it has served up a regular smorgasbord of economic schemes (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="smorrebrod">
<B>smorrebrod, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an open-face sandwich served as an hors d'oeuvre. </DL>
<A NAME="smote">
<B>smote, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> past tense of <B>smite.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. God smote the wicked city with fire from heaven.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="smother">
<B>smother, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make unable to get air; kill by depriving of air; suffocate. <BR> <I>Ex. The gas almost smothered the coal miners but they got out in time.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cover thickly. <BR> <I>Ex. In the fall the grass is smothered with leaves.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to deaden or put out by covering thickly. <BR> <I>Ex. The fire is smothered by ashes.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>to keep back; check; suppress. <BR> <I>Ex. to smother one's fears, to smother a committee's report. I smothered a sharp reply.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to cover up; conceal. <BR> <I>Ex. He smothered a yawn behind his hand.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to cook in a covered pot or baking dish. <BR> <I>Ex. smothered chicken.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be unable to breathe freely; suffocate. <BR> <I>Ex. We are smothering in this stuffy room. The miners almost smothered when the shaft collapsed.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to be suppressed, concealed, or stifled. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Dialect.) to smolder; burn slowly. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a cloud of dust, smoke, spray, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The distant building rose above the smother of traffic and industrial smog.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything that smothers or appears to smother. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) an excess of disorder; confusion. <BR> <I>Ex. a perfect smother of letters and papers.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the condition of being smothered. <DD><B> 5. </B>a smoking or smoldering condition. noun <B>smotherer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="smotheration">
<B>smotheration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of smothering, or the state of being smothered; suffocation. </DL>
<A NAME="smotheringly">
<B>smotheringly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>suffocatingly. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) so as to suppress. </DL>
<A NAME="smothery">
<B>smothery, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to smother; full of dust, smoke, spray, or the like; stifling. </DL>
<B>s.m.p.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> without male offspring (Latin, <I>sine mascula prole</I>). </DL>
<A NAME="smsa">
<B>SMSA</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (the official name of a metropolitan area in the United States). </DL>
<A NAME="smudge">
<B>smudge, </B>noun, verb, <B>smudged,</B> <B>smudging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a dirty mark, especially one caused by smearing or by trying to rub out a previous mark; smear. <BR> <I>Ex. Erasing only made a smudge and she had to copy the note over.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a smoky fire made to drive away insects or to protect fruit and plants from frost. <DD><B> b. </B>any suffocating smoke. <DD><B> 3. </B>a dirty or smeared condition. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to mark with dirty streaks; smear. <BR> <I>Ex. The picture was smudged by wet paint.</I> (SYN) stain, blacken, smirch. <DD><B> 2. </B>to smoke (an orchard) with a smudge or smudges to fumigate or protect from frost. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make or leave a stain. (SYN) stain, blacken, smirch. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be smudged. </DL>
<A NAME="smudgepot">
<B>smudge pot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pot or stove in which oil or other fuel is burned to produce smudge. <BR> <I>Ex. Florida's citrus growing belt reported 30 degrees, but smudge pots and burning piles of wood saved most of the crop (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="smudgy">
<B>smudgy, </B>adjective, <B>smudgier,</B> <B>smudgiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>smudged; marked with smudges. <BR> <I>Ex. smudgy fingermarks all around the light switch.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>smoky. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British Dialect.) close or sultry. <BR> <I>Ex. smudgy air.</I> adv. <B>smudgily.</B> noun <B>smudginess.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="smug">
<B>smug, </B>adjective, <B>smugger,</B> <B>smuggest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>too pleased with one's own goodness, cleverness, respectability, or accomplishments; self-satisfied; complacent. <BR> <I>Ex. Nothing disturbs the smug beliefs of some prim, narrow-minded people.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>sleek; neat; trim. (SYN) spruce. adv. <B>smugly.</B> noun <B>smugness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="smuggery">
<B>smuggery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a smug attitude or condition. </DL>
<A NAME="smuggle">
<B>smuggle, </B>verb, <B>-gled,</B> <B>-gling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to bring into or take out of a country secretly and against the law, especially without the payment of legal duties. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a crime to smuggle goods into the United States.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to bring, take, or put secretly. <BR> <I>Ex. to smuggle presents into the attic. He tried to smuggle his snake into the house.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to engage in smuggling. </DL>
<A NAME="smuggler">
<B>smuggler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who smuggles. <DD><B> 2. </B>a ship used in smuggling. </DL>
<A NAME="smut">
<B>smut, </B>noun, verb, <B>smutted,</B> <B>smutting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>indecent, obscene talk or writing. <BR> <I>Ex. Smut Held Cause of Delinquency (New York Times).</I> (SYN) obscenity, ribaldry. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a plant disease, especially of cereals, in which the ears of grain are replaced by black, dustlike spores. <DD><B> b. </B>any parasitic fungus producing this disease. <DD><B> 3a. </B>soot, dirt, or the like. <DD><B> b. </B>a bit of this. <BR> <I>Ex. The controversial aft-placed funnel has been an unqualified success; not a smut, it is claimed, has yet besmirched her virgin decks (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a dirty mark; smudge. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to soil with smut; smudge; blacken. <BR> <I>Ex. to smut one's hands with coal.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to affect (a plant) with the disease smut. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be soiled with smut. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of a plant) to become affected by smut. </DL>
<A NAME="smutball">
<B>smut ball,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the ball of black powder into which an ear of grain is changed by the smut fungus. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=puffball.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="smutch">
<B>smutch, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to blacken with soot or dirt; smudge. <BR> <I>Ex. Let light forbear those lids; I have forbidden the feathery ash to smutch them (Elinor Wylie).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a dirty mark; smudge. </DL>
<A NAME="smutchy">
<B>smutchy, </B>adjective, <B>smutchier,</B> <B>smutchiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> marked with smutches; dirty. </DL>
<A NAME="smutgrass">
<B>smut grass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rushy grass growing in warm regions, with spikes usually blackened by a smut. </DL>
<A NAME="smutty">
<B>smutty, </B>adjective, <B>-tier,</B> <B>-tiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>indecent; nasty; obscene. <BR> <I>Ex. "Let us not be smutty," appeals Lady Fidget, in the line Dame Edith Evans made famous (London Times).</I> (SYN) pornographic, salacious. <DD><B> 2. </B>having the plant disease smut. <DD><B> 3. </B>soiled with smut, soot, or the like; dirty or sooty. (SYN) grimy. <DD><B> 4. </B>of the color of smut; dusky; dark. adv. <B>smuttily.</B> noun <B>smuttiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="smv">
<B>SMV</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> slow-moving vehicle. </DL>
<A NAME="smyrnafig">
<B>Smyrna fig,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large pulpy fig that has only female flowers which must be pollinated by the pollen from caprifigs before the fruit will grow. </DL>
<A NAME="smyrnean">
<B>Smyrnean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Smyrna (now Izmir), a seaport in western Turkey, on the Aegean Sea, or its people. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Smyrna. </DL>
