smicket (smiket)

[ Wide antlers, which had whilom grac'd A stag's bold brow, on pitchforks plac'd, The roaring, dancing bumpkins show, And the white smickets wave below. Combe, Dr. Syntax's Tours, ii. 5. ( Davies .) smicklyt (smik'li), adv . [ * smick , var. of smug (or apparent base of smicker ), + -ly2.] Neatly; trimly; amorously. Ra. What's hee that looks so smickly? Fol . A Flounder in a frying-pan, still skipping;... hee's an Italian dancer. Dekker and Ford , Sun's Darling, ii. Smicra (smik'rä), n. [NL. (Spinola, 1811), σμικρός , var. of μικρός , small: see micron . ] A genus of parasitic hymenopterous insects, of the family Chalcididæ , having enlarged hind femora, armed with one or two large teeth followed by numerous smaller ones. Most of the American species which have been placed in this genus belong to the allied genus Spilochal cis .