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‖ ˈsmectis rare.
[ad. Gr. σµηκτίς, a kind of fuller's earth.]
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1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Smectis,..Fullers-Earth. 1783Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 227 It feels like hard soap, or rather like that kind of stone which the mineralogists call Smectis. 1794Sullivan View Nature II, How is a clay to be distinguished from the smectis or soap-rock? 1905Oban Advertiser 19 Aug. 3 By different authors, the ‘lapis nephriticus’ has been considered as an agate, a jasper, a gypsum, and a smectis. |