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- English Word Smacking Definition A sharp, quick noise; a smack.
- English Word Smacking Definition Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.
- English Word Small Definition Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
- English Word Small Definition Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
- English Word Small Definition Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
- English Word Small Definition Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
- English Word Small Definition Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
- English Word Small Definition In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
- English Word Small Definition Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
- English Word Small Definition The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
- English Word Small Definition Smallclothes.
- English Word Small Definition Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
- English Word Small Definition To make little or less.
- English Word Smallage Definition A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
- English Word Smallclothes Definition A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
- English Word Smallish Definition Somewhat small.
- English Word Smallness Definition The quality or state of being small.
- English Word Smallpox Definition A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
- English Word Smalls Definition See Small, n., 2, 3.
- English Word Smallsword Definition A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
- English Word Smally Definition In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.
- English Word Smalt Definition A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.
- English Word Smalt-blue Definition Deep blue, like smalt.
- English Word Smaltine Definition Alt. of Smaltite
- English Word Smaltite Definition A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.
- English Word Smaragd Definition The emerald.
- English Word Smaragdine Definition Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
- English Word Smaragdite Definition A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
- English Word Smart Definition To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
- English Word Smart Definition To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.