smoking room (smoking rom)

A room, as in a private dwelling or a hotel, set apart for the use of smokers. smoky (smō'ki), a. [Formerly also smoaky; Then rise, O fleecy Fog! and raise The glory of her coming days; Be as the cloud that flecks the seas Above her smoky argosies. Bret Harte, San Francisco. 2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke. London appears in a morning drowned in a black cloud, and all the day after smothered with smoky fog. Harvey. 3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling it; filled with a haze; hazy: as, a smoky atmosphere. Swich a reyne from hevene gan avale That every maner woman that was there Hadde of that smoky reyn a verray fere. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 628. 4. Subject to be filled with smoke from the chimneys or fireplaces. He is as tedious As a tired horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house. IMG:content-1373.png:[blocks in formation] Milton , Comus, 1. 324. 7t. Quick to smoke an idea; keen to smell out a secret; suspicious. Besides, Sir, people in this town are more smoaky and suspicious. Oxford, you know, is the seat of the Muses, and a man is naturally permitted more ornament and garniture to his conversation than they will allow in this latitude. Foote , The Liar, i. 1. I-gad, I don't like his Look she seems a little smoky . Cibber , Provoked Husband, ii. 8. Of the color of smoke; of a grayish-brown color.-Smoky bat, Molo us nasutus, the South American monk-bat. - Smoky pies, the large dark-brown jays of the genus Psilorhinus. - Smoky quartz, the smoky or brownish-yellow variety of quartz found on Pike's Peak (Colorado), in Scotland, and in Brazil: same as cairn gorm. - Smoky topaz, a name frequently applied by jewelers to smoky quartz. - Smoky urine, urine of a darkish color, occurring in some cases of nephritis. The color is due to the presence of a small quantity of blood. - Smoky wainscot, Leucania impura, a British moth. - Smoky wave, Acidalia fumata, a British geometrid moth. smolder, smoulder (smōl'der), v. [Early mod. E. also smoolder; A doubt that ever smoulder'd in the hearts Of those great Lords and Barons of his realm Flash'd forth and into war. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. II. trans. 11. To suffocate; smother. They prea ed forward vnder their ensignes, bearing downe such as stood in their way, and with their owne fire smooldered and burnt them to ashes. Holinshed, Hist. Eng., iv. 9. This wind and dust, see how it smolders me; Some drink, good Glocester, or I die for drink. Peele, Edward I. 2. To discolor by the action of fire. Aside the beacon, up whose smouldered stones The tender ivy-trails creep thinly. Ac the smoke and the smolder [var. smorthre ] that smyt in owre eyghen, That is coueityse and vnkyndene e that quencheth goddes mercy. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 341. The smoulder stops our nose with stench, the fume of- fends our eies. None can breath, nor see, nor heare at will, Through smouldry cloud of duskish stincking smoke. Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 13. smolt1 (smõlt), n. [Prob. a var. of smelt2 . Cf. smolt2.] A salmon in its second year, when it has lost its parr-marks and a umed its silvery scales; the stage of salmon-growth between the parr and the grilse. The smolt proceeds at once to the sea, and reappears in fresh water as the grilse. smolt2 (smolt), a . [ ME.smolt , smylt , AS.smeolt , smylt , clear, bright, serene.] Smooth and shin- ing. Hall i well . [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] smooch, v . t . Same as smutch . smooldert, v. An obsolete form of smolder . smoor (smör), v . The erthe sal be than even and hale, And smethe and clere als crystale. Hampole , Pricke of Conscience, 1. 6849. My smooth moist hand, were it with thy hand felt, Would in thy palm di olve, or seem to melt. While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea. Milton , P. L., i. 450. Try the rough water as well as the smooth . O. W. Holmes, Emerson, ix. 2. Free from hair: as, a smooth face. Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. Gen. xxvii. 11. 3. Free from lumps: especially noting flour, starch, and the like. Put the flour and salt in a bowl, and add a little at a time of the water or milk, working it very smooth as you smooth (smöTH), v. [Also smoot he; smethe , smooth: see smooth, a.] I. trans. 1. To make smooth; make even on the surface by any means: as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron. Her eith'r ende ysmoothed is to have, And cubital let make her longitude. To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Graue Diuine. Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my pa age to the realms of day. Pope , Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 322. Aubrey, Lives (Lucius Carey). 3. To free from harshne ; make flowing. Smooth verse, inspired by no unlettered Muse. Words worth, Excursion, vi. 5. Using pleasing or euphonious language. The only smooth poet of those times. In their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones. 6. In Gr.gram . , free from aspiration; not rough: as, a smooth mute; the smooth breathing.-7. Bland; mild; soothing; insinuating; wheed- 5. To calm; mollify; allay. ling: noting persons or speech, etc. To smooth his fault I should have been more mild. Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 240. I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 46. They know howe smooth soeuer his lookes were, there was a diuell in his bosome. Dekker , Seven Deadly Sins, p. 36. 8. Free from anything disagreeable or unpleas- ant. Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Isa. xxx. 10. From Rumour's tongues They bring smooth comforts false. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., Ind., 1. 40. His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day. Shak ., Rich. III., iii. 4. 50. 10. Without jolt, jar, or shock; even: as, Learn to flatter and smooth. Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth , deceive, and cog. Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. 48. I. a. Smooth-bored; not rifled: as, a smooth- bore gun. Compare choke - bore . As where smooth Zephyr us plays on the fleet Face of the curled streams. 12. Free from astringency, tartne , or any stinging or titillating character; soft to the nerves of taste: used especially of spirit.- 13. In zoöl . , not rough, as an unsculptured sur- face, or one without visible elevations (as gran- ules, points, papillæ, and nodes) or impres- sions (as str iæ, punctures, and foveæ), though it may be thinly clothed with hairs or minute scales.-14. In bot . , either opposed to scabrous (that is, not rough), or equivalent to glabrous (that is, not pubescent): the former is the more correct sense. Gray. - Smooth alder. See alder , 1. -Smooth blenny, the shanny.-Smooth calf, fiber, file. See the nouns. - Smooth full. Same as rap - full . -Smooth holly. See Hedycarya . - Smooth hound, a smooth-dab (smöTH'dab), п. The smear-dab. II. n. A firearm with a smooth-bored bar- rel: in contradistinction to rifle , or rifled gun. smooth-bored (smöTH'bord), a. Having a smooth bore; not rifled: noting the barrel of a gun or the gun itself. smooth-browed (smöTH'broud), a. Having a smooth or unwrinkled brow. smooth-chinned (smöTH'chind), a. Having a smooth or shaven chin; beardle . Look to your wives too; greened than usual. - Smooth lungwort. See lungwort . -Smooth muscle a non-striated muscle. - Smooth painting, in stained - gla work , painting in which the from stippling and smeared work . - Smooth scales, in color is brought to a uniform surface, as distinguished herpet ., specifically, flat, keelle or ecarinate scales, as of a snake, whatever their other characters. It is char- act eristic of many genera of serpents to have keeled scales on most of the body, from which the smooth scales of other ophidians are distinguished. - Smooth snake, sole, sumac, tare, winterberry, etc. See the nouns. [ Smooth is often in the formation of self-explaining compounds, as smooth -haired, smooth - leafed, smooth -skin- ned, smooth -swarded.]=Syn. 1. Plain, level, polished.- 5. Voluble, fluent.-7. Oily. smooth (smöTH), a. and n. [ smothe , also smethe (> E. dial. smeeth ), smothe , in earliest form smothi (only in neg. unsmōthe, unsmōthi ), usually with umlaut smēthe , ONorth. smothe , usually with umlaut smoethe , smooth, = MLG. smōde , LG. smode , smoede , also smoe , also MLG. smōdich, LG. smödig , smooth, malleable, ductile; related to MD. smedigh , smij- digh , D. smijdig = MLG.smidich , LG.smidig , mal- leable, = MHG. gesmidic, G. geschmeidig , malle- able, ductile, smooth, = Sw. Dan. smidig , plia- ble; to OHG. gesmidi , gesmīda , metal, MHG.ge- smide , metal, metal weapons or ornaments, G. geschmeide , ornaments; and ult. to E. smith : see smith . The related forms smooth and smith , and the other forms above cited, with Icel. smidh = Sw. smide , smiths' work, etc., point to an orig. strong verb, Goth. * smeithan (pret. * smaith , pp . * smithans ) = AS. * smith an (pret. * smath , pp. * smithen ), forge (metals); cf. Sw. dial.smida (pret.smed , pp. smiden ), smooth. Smooth would then mean orig. 'forged,' 'flattened with the hammer' (cf. Sw. smidesjern = Dan. smedejern , 'wrought-iron'); ult. ✔ smi, work in metals, A raft of this description will break the force of the sea, forge: see smith.] I. a. 1. Having a surface and form a smooth for the boat. so uniform that the eye and the touch do not Qualtrough , Boat Sailer's Manual, p. 125. readily detect any projections or irregularities 3. Specifically, a field or plat of gra . [U.S.] in it; not rough; of water, not ruffled, or not undulating. IMG:content-1374.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1375.png:[blocks in formation] A twelvemonth and a day I'll mark no words that smooth - faced wooers say. Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. 838. Smooth-faced, drawling, hypocritical fellows, who pretend ginger isn't hot in their mouths, and cry down all innocent pleasures. George Eliot , Janet's Repentance, i. smooth-grained (smörí'grānd), a . Smooth in the grain, as wood or stone. Nor box, nor limes, without their use are made, Smooth-grained, and proper for the turner's trade. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, ii. 630. smoothing-box (smö'Thing-boks), n. A boxiron. Encyc. Dict. Smoothing - boxes , Buckles, Steels, and Awls. Money Masters All Things (1698), p. 76. smoothing-iron (smöʻThing-ī"èrn), n. A heavy iron utensil with a flat polished face, used for smoothing clothes, bed-linen, etc.: it is usually heated. Solid smoothing-irons are called flat - irons; hollow ones, heated with burning charcoal, a lamp, a piece of red-hot iron inserted, or the like, are called by different names. See box - iron , sad - iron , and goose , п., 3. IMG:content-1376.png:[blocks in formation] and gla - cutting, a wheel made of sandstone, on which a continuous stream of water is allowed to flow during the cutting and beveling of gla , gems, and small gla ornaments. 5721 MLG.smoren, smother, stifle, stew, > G. schmo ren, stew, swelter); prob. All suld be smored with-outen dout, Warne tha hevens ay moved obout. Hampole , Pricke of Conscience, 1. 7601. So bewrapped them and entangled them, kepyng doune by force the fetherbed and pillowes harde unto their mouthes, that within a while they smored and styfled them. Hall , Richard III., f. 3. ( Hall i well .) smudge =Syn. 1. Smother, Choke, Strangle, Throttle, Stifle, Suffo cate. To smother, in the stricter sense, is to put to death by preventing air from entering the nose or mouth. To choke is to imperil or destroy life by stoppage, external or internal, in the windpipe. To strangle is to put to death by compre ion of the windpipe. Throttle is the same as strangle, except that it is often used for partial or attempted strangling, and that it suggests its derivation. Suffocate and stifle are e entially the same, except that stifle is the stronger: they mean to kill by impeding respiration. II. in trans. 1. To be suffocated.-2. To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.-3. Of a fire, to burn very slowly for Manie gen till man did with him byd, Whos prais sould not be smored. Battle of Balrinnes (Child's Ballads, VII. 226). want of air; smolder. Itt suld nocht be hid, nor obscurit; It suld nocht be throung down, nor smur it . Lauder , Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 220. II. in trans. To smother; be suffocated. [Scotch.] By this time he was cro the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd . Burns , Tam o' Shanter. smore2 (smor), v. t . A dialectal form of smear . Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] The smoky fume smortherting so was, The Abbay it toke, sore gan it enbras. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3303. What fenny trash maintains the smoth'ring fires Of his desires! Quarles, Emblems, ii. 14. 4. Figuratively, to perish, grow feeble, or de- cline, by suppre ion or concealment; be stifled; be suppre ed or concealed. Which [zeal] may lie smothering for a time till it meets with suitable matter and a freer vent, and then it breaks out into a dread full flame. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. vi. smother at i on (smuTH-ér-a's hon), n. [ smother +-ation.] 1. The act of smothering, or the state of being smothered; suffocation.-2. A sailors' dish of beef and pork smothered with potatoes. [New Eng. in both senses.] smother-fly (smuth'er-fli), n. Any aphid. smorendo (smō-ren'do). [It., ppr. of smorire, die away, grow pale, ex , out, + mor i , die: see mort1. Cf. morendo.] Same as morendo . smorzando (smōr-tzän'dō). [ smorzando , ppr. of smorzare , extinguish, put out, die out.] In music , same as morendo . smott. An obsolete preterit of smite . smote (smot). Preterit of smite . smoterlicht, a. [ME., smoteren (in comp. bi- aphides, or smother - flies , which fell in these parts. smotered , pp., smutted, dirtied) (cf. MD. smod- eren, D. smodderen , smut, soil: see smut ) + -lich , E. -ly1.] Smutty; dirty. And eek for she was somdel smoterlich , She was as digne as water in a dich. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 43. smother (smuTH'er), n . [Early mod. E. also a small fine plane used for finishing. See plane2, 1. smoothing-stone (smö'Thing-stōn), n. A substitute for a smoothing-iron, made of steatite, with a plate and handle of metal. E. H. Knight. smoothly (smöTH'li), adv. [ The smoothne e of your words and sillables running vpon feete of sundrie quantities. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 65. I want smoothne To thank a man for pardoning of a crime I never knew. Beau . and Fl . , Maid's Tragedy, iv. 2. Hee distinguishes not betwixt faire and double-dealing, and suspects all smoothne e for the dre e of knauerie. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Blunt Man. The torrent's smoothne ere it dash below. Campbell . smooth-paced (smöTH'pāst), a. Having a smooth pace or movement; of a regular, easy flow. In smooth - pac'd Verse, or hobling Prose. Prior , Alma, iii. smooth-sayer (smörí'sā"ér), n. One who is smooth-tongued. [Rare.] I should rather, ten times over, dispense with the flatterers and the smooth - sayers than the grumblers. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 141. smooth-scaled (smörí'skāld), a. Having flat, smooth, or ecarinate scales, as a reptile or a fish. smooth-shod (smöTH's hod), a. Having shoes not specially provided with cogs, calks, or spikes to prevent slipping: chiefly noting animals: opposed to rough - shod or sharp - shod. smooth sides (smöTH'sīdz), n. The sapphirine gurnard, Trigla hirundo. [Prov. Eng.] smooth-spoken (smöTH'spō"kn), a. Speaking smoothly or pleasantly; plausible; insinuat ing.