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▪ I. smeek, n. Latterly Sc. and † north.
Forms: α. 2–5 smeke, 3 smec, 4 smek, 5–6 smeik, 5, 8– smeek. β. 2–4 smike, 5 smyk(e.
[The more northern forms representing OE. sméc and smíc, smýc: see smeech n. and smitch n.1]
1. Smoke arising from burning or smouldering matter; reek. Also in fig. context.
Also in mod. Sc. use, ‘a strong or foul smell’.
αc1200Ormin 1088 Þær wass swa mikell smec Off recless att tatt allterr. c1250Moral Ode 9 in E.E.P. (1862) 22 Ne myht ic isen be-fore me for smeke ne for myste. c1325Metr. Hom. 104 Rekeles..gifs smek that smelles wele, And fer men mai the smek fele. 1382Wyclif Exod. xix. 18 The smeek steyde vp of it as of a furneys. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 191 But inwarde brent of hate..The hoote fyre, & ȝit ther was no smeke. c1440Pallad. on Husb. vii. 69 Yf the smeke Perpetuel vppon their dwellyng reke. c1590Montgomerie Sonn. xxv. 2, I grein to sie the sillie smiddy smeik. a1774Fergusson Farmer's Ingle Poems (1845) 35 Heathery truffs the chimney fill And gar their thickening smeek salute the lift. 1785Burns Vision iii, The spewing reek, That fill'd, wi' hoast-provoking smeek, The auld clay biggin. 1874W. Allan Hame-Spun Lilts 160 Wi' smeek, I thocht they'd baith been smored.
βa1200Moral Ode in O.E. Hom. I. 161 Ne michte ich seon bi-fore me for smike ne for miste. a1300Cursor M. 2742 Þe smike it reches to þe scki. c1440Pallad. on Husb. xi. 362 Let vessel hit, & sette hit vp in smyke. c1460Promp. Parv. (Winch.) 459 Smore with smyk, fumigo.
b. In pl. Also in fig. context.
a1200Vices & Virt. 129 Hwanene cumeð manies kennes smekes of unþolemodnesse. c1400Sc. Trojan War ii. 856 With quhilk birnyng now it reikis, As wele apperis by þe smeikis. c1420Avow. Arth. xv, So nyȝe discumford was hee, For smelle other smekis.
2. attrib. and Comb., as smeek-house; smeek-like adj.
a1200Vices & Virt. 129 Ðe þu wunest on ðe smec-huse of ðine likame. a1400Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 951 in Anglia XVIII. 330 Dun-red is his flour, Þe erbe smek lik in colour.
▪ II. smeek, v. Latterly Sc. and † north.
Forms: 1 smeocan, 2 smeken, 5 smekyn; 3–4 smeke, 9 smeak, smeik, 9– smeek.
[OE. sméocan strong v. (pa. tense sméac), = MDu. smieken (rare), G. dial. smiechen, related by ablaut to OE. smocian smoke v. and to MDu. smōken, G. schmauchen. Perh. also partly repr. OE. smécan, smícan: cf. prec.]
1. intr. To emit smoke; to reek; to send out or give off steam or vapour. Also in fig. context.
a1000Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 244 Fumigabunt, smeocaþ. c1000ælfric Exod. xix. 18 Eall Sinai munt smeac [L. fumabat]. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 338 Heortes mearh ᵹebærned oð þæt hyt smeoce. c1325Prose Ps. ciii. 32 Þe which toucheþ þe mounteyns, and hij shul smoken [v.r. smeke]. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 4380 For hatred olde to brenne can nat lete With newe flawme..; Ȝif it nat smeke, it is þe more to drede. c1440Promp. Parv. 460/2 Smekyn, or smokyn, fumo, fumigo. Ibid., Smekyn, or smokyn as hote lycure, vaporo.
2. trans. To apply smoke or fumes to, esp. in order to cleanse, cure, dry, etc.; to fumigate.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 352 Wið cyrnla sare, smeoc þone man mid gate hærum. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xlix. (Thecla) 111 Þe fire þat ves dycht to bryne me, to brule & smeke. 1808Jamieson, Smeik, Smeek, to dry by smoke. 1815Pennecuik's Tweeddale 90 note, Smeeking our heads o'er the fire a' winter. 1882Jamieson's Sc. Dict. IV. 303/1 To smeek fish, i.e. to cure them. Ibid. 303/2 To smeek yarn, to smeek the room.
b. To suffocate (bees), to drive out (an animal), by means of smoke.
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf xviii, Elshie's skeps o' bees..shall ne'er be smeekit by ony o' huz. 1821― Pirate xxxv, My bees were as dead as if they had been smeaked. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie 219 Smeek in his hole the snoozing badger.
†3. To scent with incense; to cense. Obs.—1
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxiv. 21 And as torax, and galban, and vngula,..I smekede my dwelling; and as balsame not mengd is my smel.
Hence smeeked, ˈsmeeking ppl. adjs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xii. 20 Smeocende [Hatt. smekende] flex he ne adwæscþ. 13..in Reliq. Antiq. I. 240 Swarte smekyd smethes smateryd with smoke. |