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anding; although. These days were ages to him, notwithstanding that he was basking in the smiles of the pretty Mary. W. Irving.

also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.

E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. Goldsmith.

To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. Ex. xxiii. 1.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. [R.] Thompson.

Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip. Shak.

at he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. Wirt.

a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses. A smile that glowed Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. Milton. While blooming youth and gay delight Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed. Prior.

Sardonic. [Obs.] "With Sardonian smile." Spenser.

; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. Sir H. Wotton. The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. Burke. Sardoni…

nal. "Satanic strength." "Satanic host." Milton. Detest the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined. Dr. T. Dwight. -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ness, n.

To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage. He screwed his face into a hardened smile. Dryden.

guid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.

To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner. Behold yond simpering dame. Shak. With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling. ir. P. Sidney.

To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

To flatter; to use blandishment. Because I can not flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog. Shak.

A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt. "Who can refute a sneer" Raley.

yes. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles, by human kindness bred. Wordsworth.

traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages. Smiles.

To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile. Sir W. Scott.