smirklingt (smerkling)

[ He gave a smirkling smile. The smyler , with the knyf under his cloke. Men would smile chief smilers would be of my own people. and say, "A poor Jew!" and the George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xl. [ smilet (smi'let), n. smile; a half-smile; a look of pleasure. Those happy smilets That play'd on her ripe lip. Shak ., Lear, iv. 3. 21. smilingly (smiling-li), adv . In a smiling manner; with a smile or look of pleasure. sure Comparing him to that unhappy guest Whose deed hath made herself herself detest; At last she smilingly with this gives o'er. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1567. IMG:content-1364.png:[blocks in formation] With a smirk. [Rare.] Venus was glad to hear Such proffer made, which she well shewed with smiling chear,. And smirkly thus gan say. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia. smirky (smer'ki), a. [Also smerky; smirk2 . [Provincial.] I overtook a swarthy, bright-eyed, smerky little fellow, riding a small pony, and bearing on his shoulder a long, heavy rifle. A. B. Long street , Georgia Scenes, p. 197. smit1 (smit), v. t.; pret. and pp. smitted , ppr. smitting. [ME. smitten , smittian , spot, =MD. D. smetten = MLG. smitten = OHG. smiz jan , smizzan , MHG. smitzen , infect, contaminate, Sw.smitta = Dan.smitte , infect (cf. Sw. smitta , Dan. smitte , contagion); intensive of AS. smit an , smite, = OHG. smizan , MHG. smi zen , strike, stroke, smear; cf. AS. besmitan , besmear, defile, = Goth. bi - smeitan , smear: see smite. Hence freq. smittle .] 1. To infect. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] -2. To mar; destroy. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] =