[SONG sb.] A composer or maker of songs. Also as a book-title.
1795. Dibdin (title), The Song Smith; or, Rigmarole Repository.
1854. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag., Wks. (Bohn), III. 165. He and his temple-gods were called song-smiths.
1865. Swinburne, Chastelard, I. ii. 35. These jangling song-smiths are keen love-mongers, They snap at all meats.
1899. E. G. Gardner, in The Month, April, 354. Arnaldo Daniello, the great song-smith of the vulgar tongue.
