smileful (smilful)

[ of smiles; smiling. [Rare.] smilele (smil'les), a. [ Not Preparing themselves for that smilele eternity to which they look forward. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, iv. smiler (smi'ler), n. [ smiler , smyler , smi lere (= Sw.smiler, smilare ); smitch I'll... with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak., As you Like it, i. 3. 114. Hercules' dog had seized on one [of these shellfish) thrown up by the sea, and smerched his lips with the tincture. Sandys , Travailes, p. 168. 2. Figuratively, to degrade; reduce in honor, dignity, fame, repute, or the like: as, to smirch one's own or another's reputation. smirch (smérch), n. [ My love must come on silken wings,.. Not foul with kitchen smirch , With tallow dip for torch. Whittier, Maids of Attitash. smirk1 (smerk), v. i. [Formerly also smerk; The hoste , smiling and smirking as each new guest was presented, was the centre of attraction to a host of young dandies. T. Hook , Gilbert Gurney. ( Latham .) The trivial and smirking artificialities of social inter Harper's Mag ., LXXVII. 960. See simper2 . [ course. =Syn. Simper , Smirk . smirk1 (smerk), n. smile; a soft look. A constant smirk upon the face. Chesterfield. smirk2 (smėrk), a. [Also smerk ; prob. a var. (simulating smirk1 ?) of smert , older form of smart : see smart .] Smart; spruce. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Seest howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke , so smoot he, his pricked eares? Spenser, Shep. Cal., February.