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of the face; to laugh silently. He doth nothing but frown . . . He hears merry tales and smiles not. Shak. She led to see the doughty hero slain. Pope. When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled. Byron.

Not having a smile.

One who smiles. Tennyson.

A little smile. [R.] Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip. Shak.

Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.

arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.

To reach or get to the bottom of. Smiles.

A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. He smiles and he frowns in a breath. Dryden.

Having power to captivate or cham; fascinating; as, captivating smiles. -- Cap"tiva`ting*ly, adv.

To do otherwise. "Can I choose but smile" Pope. Can not choose but, must necessarily. Thou canst not choose but know who I am. Shak.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

mall growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak.

rom village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.