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Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.

sort with their vocations. Bacon. Things sort not to my will. herbert. I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. Sir W. Scott.

a return in specie from them" [i. e., kindness for kindness]. Dryden. In specie (Law), in precise or definite form; specifically; according to the exact terms; of the very thing.

Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.

fication or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.

Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.] Killingbeck.

Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.

Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. Shak. It shall be still in strictest measure. Milton.

In a strict manner; closely; precisely.

Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing. Sir W. Hamilton.

Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical. Sterne.

A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. "Terms quaint of law." Chaucer. In painting, the greatest beauties can not always be expressed for want of terms. Dryden.…

Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.

Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument Mitford.

A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.

are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. Shak. -- For all the world. (a) Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration. -- Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. -- To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every one to the world but I . . . ; I may si…