Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To have a taste; smack.
- To have a taste of; smack of.
- noun Taste; tincture; also, a smattering; a small part.
- noun The wheatear, a bird, See the quotation under arling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Taste; tincture; smack.
- intransitive verb obsolete To smack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
smack ,taste - noun
tincture - noun
trace , small quantity,smidge ,smattering orsmidgen - verb intransitive To have a
taste ,smack . - verb transitive To have a
taste or sample of, smack of,taste . - verb obsolete To
smack .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The monarch was to see bright raiment, flowers, pageantry, smiling faces only; to hear only the voices of singing men and singing women; no smatch of the abounding wormwood of life was to touch his lip, no glimpse of its we to disturb his serenity.
The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910
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In waightie causes and for great purposes, wise perswaders vse graue & weighty speaches, specially in matter of aduise or counsel, for which purpose there is a maner of speach to alleage textes or authorities of wittie sentence, such as smatch morall doctrine and teach wisedome and good behauiour, by the Greeke originall we call him the directour, by the Latin he is called sententia: we may call him the sage sayer, thus.
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Her husband had still his “smatch of honour,” his fragment of romance.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Her husband had still his “smatch of honour,” his fragment of romance.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Her husband had still his “smatch of honour,” his fragment of romance.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Her husband had still his “smatch of honour,” his fragment of romance.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Her husband had still his “smatch of honour,” his fragment of romance.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He passes the more plausibly because all men have a smatch of his humour, and it is thought freeness which is malice.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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There is a solution attempted by some from the soul's preexistency; which, they would pretend, the Jews had some smatch of, from what they say about those souls which are in Goph, or Guph.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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If he have leisure to be idle (that is to study,) he has a smatch at alcumy, and is sick of the philosopher's stone; a disease uncurable, but by an abundant phlebotomy of the purse.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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