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ˈsmiris ? Obs.
Also 7 smyris.
[a. Gr. σµίρις or σµύρις.]
= emery n. 1.
1610–[see emery n. 1]. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge e 8 b, All may have Sculpture by the powder of smiris, except the adamant. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 74 The best sort of Smiris serves for several uses. 1778W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 65 Those which are mistaken by many for distinct sorts of Fossils, are the Hæmatites, or Bloodstone;..the Smiris, or Emery. 1803Phil. Trans. XCIII. 82 It is not..improbable, but that some other substance has been occasionally denoted by the term smiris, emeril, or emery. |