Now only Sc. Also 9 smikker. [app. f prec.]

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  † 1.  intr. To look amorously or wantonly at or after a person. Obs.

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1668.  Dryden, Even. Love, III. i. Must you be smickering after Wenches, while I am in Calamity?

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1668.  Davenant, Man’s the Master, II. i. No, no, I see I may make love long enough before you smicker at me.

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  2.  Sc. To smile or smirk.

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1802.  Sibbald, Chron. Scot. Poetry, Gloss., Smikker, to smile in a seducing manner.

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1819.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 70.

        At him, my grandsher, and the Vicar,
As they march’t up, and aff did bicker,
The god o’ gaups did laugh and smikker.

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1888.  Delday, in Edwards, Mod. Sc. Poets, 12th Ser. 41. To pass the time and have a chat, And see them sweetly smicker.

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  Hence † Smickering vbl. sb., an amorous inclination. Obs.

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1699.  Dryden, Lett. to Mrs. Steward, 28 Sept. We had a young doctour, who rode by our coach, and seem’d to have a smickering to our young lady of Pilton.

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