smytet

An obsolete spelling of smite. smyterie, smytrie (smit'ri), n. [Sc., more prop. * smitery, dividuals. A smytrie o' wee duddie weans. Burns , The Twa Dogs. smytht, n. An obsolete spelling of smith . Sn. In chem ., the symbol for tin (Latin stannum ). snabble (snab'l), v.; pret. and pp. snabbled , ppr. snabbling . [Var. of * snapple , freq. of snap .] I. trans . To rifle; plunder; kill. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] II. in trans. 1. To eat greedily. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -2. To shovel with the bill, as a water-fowl seeking for food. You see, sir, I was a cruising down the flats about sunup, the tide jist at the nip, as it is now; I see a whole pile of shoveler ducks snabbling in the mud, and busy as dogfish in herring-time. Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 612. snab by (snab'i), n.; pl. snabbies (-iz). [Perhaps ult. connected with MD. snab be, snebbe, bill, beak: see snafle and neb.] The chaffinch, Fringilla cælebs. [Scotch.]