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▪ I. smeeth, a. and n. Obs. exc. dial.|smiːθ, smiːð|
Forms: 1 smoeðe, 1–3 smeðe, 2–4 smeþe, 4–5 smethe, smeth (4 smith), 9 dial. smeeth, smeath, smeede, smee.
[OE. smœ́ðe, sméðe (:—*smōþi-), related to smóð smooth a., which is rare in OE. but from c 1400 has almost entirely supplanted smeeth.]
A. adj. Smooth; free from roughness.
c725Corpus Gloss. P 511 Politis, smoeðum. c825Vesp. Hymns xii. 7 Ðec stefn smoeðu hlydeð. c950Lindisf. Gosp. John xix. 23 Cyrtil unruh vel smoeðe. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke iii. 5 Unᵹerydu [beoð] on smeðe weᵹas. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 219 Þat he [a rod] he riht and smal and long and smeþe. a1225Ancr. R. 2 Þe on riwleð þe heorte, þe makeð hire efne & smeðe. a1300Cursor M. 3490 Þe first was born was rogh as hare, þe toþer child was smeth and bare. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxxv. (Bodl. MS.), Þe flessch of þe lunges is nassche and smeþe. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 47 Thou hit sethe With otene grotes, þat ben so smethe.
1808Jamieson s.v., Smeeth in the mou, a phrase applied to a horse that has lost mark of mouth. 1878Dickinson Cumbld. Gloss. 89/2 Smeeth, Smee, smooth. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. 661 Smeede, smooth... This often occurs in place-names.
B. n. A level space. E. Angl. dial.
c1440Promp. Parv. 460/2 Smethe, or smothe,..planicies. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Smeath, an open level of considerable extent. [Rye (1895) adds, commonly pronounced and printed Smee.] 1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norf. 70 Smeaa—used for marshland, as ‘Down by the carnser and over the smeaa’.
▪ II. smeeth, v. Obs. exc. dial.|smiːð|
Forms: 1 smeðian, smeðan, 2 smeþien, 3 smeðen, 4–5 smeþe, 4–6 smethe, 8 smeath, 9 smeeth.
[OE. smeðian and sméðan, f. smeðe smeeth a.]
trans. To make smooth. Also absol.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 210 ærest him is to sellanne þæt þone innoð stille & smeþe. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses 47/2 Salebrosos complanans anfractus, woᵹe smeþiende hylcas. c1175Lamb. Hom. 31 He wile seggen and foxliche smeþien mid worde, Nabbe ic nawiht þer-of. a1225Ancr. R. 4 Rihten hire & smeðen hire is of euch religiun..al þe strengðe. c1230Hali Meid. 27 Ah Ichulle scheawen hit al wið falschipe ismeðet. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lvii. (Bodl. MS.), Enula..haþ vertu to plane and to smethe..and to comforte senewes. Ibid. xix. xlv, Bitter þinges..bi..drynes..beþ made smeþinge & softinge. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorks. II. 353. 1829 Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Smeeth, to smooth. 1886Holland Chester Gloss., Smeeth, to iron linen. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. 661 Smeeth (the th as in seethe), to smooth. |