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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hee falleth; nowe bie heavenne thie woundes doe smethe [91];

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • The forswat [24] meadowes smethe [25], and drenche [26] the raine; 30

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

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