Webster's Dictionary 1913

6265

Slyboots

Sly″boots′ (?), n. A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.

6266

Slyly

Sly″ly, adv. In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.

6267

Slyness

Sly″ness, n. The quality or state of being sly.

6268

Slype

Slype (?), n. [Cf. D. sluipen to sneak.] (Arch.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.

6269

Smack

Smack (?), n. [D. smak; akin to LG. smack, smak, Dan. smakke, G. schmacke, F. semaque.] (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting ...

6270

Smack (2)

Smack, n. [OE. smak, AS. ssm�c taste, savor; akin to D. smaak, G. geschmack, OHG. smac; cf. Lith. smagus pleasant. Cf. Smack, v. i.] 1. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or f...

6271

Smack (3)

Smack, adv. As if with a smack or slap.

6272

Smack (4)

Smack, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Smacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Smacking.] [OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, — from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG....

6273

Smack (5)

Smack, v. t. 1. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.2. To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to ...

6274

Smacking

Smack″ing, n. A sharp, quick noise; a smack.Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden.

6275

Smacking (2)

Smack″ing (?), a. Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.

6276

Small

Small (sma̤l), a. [Compar.Smaller (?); superl.Smallest.] [OE. small, AS. smæl; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals smal...

6277

Small (2)

Small, adv. 1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly. “I wept but small.” Chaucer. “It small avails my mood.” Shak.2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly.You may...

6278

Small (3)

Small, n. 1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.2. pl. Smallclothes. Hood. Dickens.3. pl. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.

6279

Small (4)

Small, v. t. To make little or less.

6280

Smallage

Small″age (?), n. [Small + F. ache smallage. See Ach parsley.] (Bot.) A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived ...

6281

Smallclothes

Small″clothes′ (?), n. pl. A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.

6282

Smallish

Small″ish, a. Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.

6283

Smallness

Small″ness, n. The quality or state of being small.

6284

Smallpox

Small″pox′ (?), n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a...

6285

Smalls

Smalls (?), n. pl. See Small, n., 2, 3.

6286

Smallsword

Small″sword′ (?), n. A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

6287

Smally

Smal″ly (?), adv. In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.

6288

Smalt

Smalt (?), n. [It. smalto, LL. smaltum; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. smalz grease, butter, G. schmalz grease, OHG. smelzan to melt, G. schmelzen. See Smelt, v. t., and cf. Amel,...

6289

Smalt-blue

Smalt″–blue′ (?), a. Deep blue, like smalt.

6290

Smaltine

{ Smalt″ine (?), Smalt″ite (?), } n. [See Smalt.] (Min.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

6291

Smaragd

Smar″agd (?), n. [L. smaragdus. See Emerald.] The emerald. Bale.