Also 5 smothe. [f. prec.]
1. Smoothly, in various senses.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 177. This worthy lorde began to smothe lagh.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., I. i. 134. The course of true loue neuer did run smooth. Ibid. (1593), 2 Hen. VI., III. i. 53. Smooth runnes the Water, where the Brooke is deepe.
c. 1655. Milton, Sonn., xx. Time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth.
1746. Francis, trans. Horace, Sat., I. x. 62. III. 157.
| On Virgil all the rural Muses smile, | |
| Smooth flow his Lines, and elegant his Style. |
1799. Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), IV. 41. I well know your conciliating manners will make every thing go smooth.
2. Comb. a. With pa. pples. used attributively or predicatively, as smooth-bedded, -combed, -cut, etc.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 148. The third step … *smooth bedded…. And the sixth smooth bedded, and all the dovetails roughed out.
1579. North, Plutarch, Cæsar (1612), 739. Those fat men and *smooth combed heads.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xiv. As I paced along the *smooth-cut velvet walks.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 778. White *smooth hewen Asheler stone.
1598. Marston, Sco. Villanie, I. iii. 180. His perfum’d she-goat *smooth-kemb’d and high fed.
1854. trans. Pereira’s Polarized Light, 17. When a beam of light falls on a *smooth-polished surface.
1799. Wordsw., Poet’s Epitaph, 29. One to whose *smooth-rubbed soul can cling Nor form, nor feeling.
1820. Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, xxxiii. Upon his knees he sank, pale as *smooth-sculptured stone.
1632. Milton, Perseroso, 66. I walk unseen On the dry *smooth-shaven Green.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., xii. The Flemings … prided themselves on their civilised and smooth-shaven chins.
1756. Dyer, Fleece, IV. 86. Copious webs arrive, *Smooth wov’n, of other than Britannia’s Fleece.
1678. J. Norris, Misc. (1699), 37. Who with a *smooth-wrought Pipe shall play the Song.
b. With pres. pples., as smooth-flowing, -gliding, -going, -sliding, etc.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VI. ii. Parliamentary Eloquence, in bursts, or in plenteous *smooth-flowing floods.
1603. Daniel, Def. Rhime, G v b. We admire them not for their *smooth-gliding words.
1883. Black, Shandon Bells, II. v. 107. The Hansom (which was not quite so *smooth-going as that of Dr. Bude).
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. I. Eden, 117. That never gutter-gorging durty muds Defil’d the chrystall of *smooth-sliding floods.
1637. Milton, Lycidas, 86. Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown’d with vocall reeds.
1606. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. II. Magnificence, 682. *Smooth-soothing vows, deep sorrows soon appeas’d.
1753. Young, Brothers, I. i. *Smooth-speaking, insincere, insulting boy!
1743. Francis, trans. Horace, Odes, I. ii. 20. I. 13. Th’ uxorious River glides away,… *smooth-winding to the Sea.
