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necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.

The quality or state of being smothery.

In a smothering manner.

Tending to smother; stifling.

The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

ear, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] Blackstone.

See Swainmote.

See Swainmote. [Obs.]

A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

An earthquake. [Obs.] Gower.

An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

A heat engine; a hot-air engine.

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

A tank containing pipes through which circulates steam, water, air, or the like, for heating or cooling; -- used in some heating and ventilation systems.

ning to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.

Determination of the direction of locomotion by heat.

Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.

Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.