Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]

Smock
(Smock), v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.

Smock-faced
(Smock"-faced`) a. Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

Smock frock
(Smock" frock`) A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

Smockless
(Smock"less), a. Wanting a smock. Chaucer.

Smokable
(Smok"a*ble) a. Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

Smoke
(Smoke) n. [AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smög, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. smaugti to choke.]

1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot.

Smithy
(Smith"y) n. [AS. smiððe, fr. smið; akin to D. smidse, smids, OHG. smitta, G. schmiede, Icel. smiðja. See Smith, n.] The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.]

Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands.
Longfellow.

Smitt
(Smitt) n. [CF. G. schmitz a stain, schmitzen besmear. See Smite, v. t.] Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep. [Eng.] Woodward.

Smitten
(Smit"ten) p. p. of Smite.

Smittle
(Smit"tle) v. t. [Freq. fr. OE. smitten to befoul. See Smite, v. t.] To infect. [Prov. Eng.]

Smittle
(Smit"tle), n. Infection. [Pov. Eng.] Wright.

Smittle
(Smit"tle Smit"tlish) (- tlish), a. Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.

Smock
(Smock) n. [AS. smocc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. smugan to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close, MHG. smiegen, Icel. smjuga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle.]

1. A woman's under- garment; a shift; a chemise.

In her smock, with head and foot all bare.
Chaucer.

2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.

Smock
(Smock) a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.


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