smother (smuther)

[Early mod. E. also smoother; daubed: see smoterlich.] I. trans. 1. To suffocate; stifle; obstru obstruct, more or le completely, the respiration of. The beholders of this tragic play,... Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 70. Some who had the holy fire, being surrounded and almost smothered by the crowd that pre ed about them, were forced to brand the candles in the faces of the people in their own defence. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 27. smothered in the dusty whirl Add is on, Cato, ii. 6. The helple traveller wind dies. IMG:content-1377.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1378.png:[blocks in formation] smouch1 (smöch or smouch), v. and n. [A var. of smutch.] Same as smutch. smouch2 (smouch), v. [Perhaps a dial. var. of smack2.] To ki ; bu . [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] What ki ing and bu ing, what smouching & slabbering one of another! Stubbes, Anat. of Abuses, i. 16. I had rather than a bend of leather Shee and I might smouch together. Heywood , 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 40). smouch2 (smouch), n. [ Come smack me; I long for a smouch . Promos and Cas sandra , p. 47. ( Hall i well .)