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imp. & p. p. of Smite. Spenser. Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene. Cowper.

nd, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39. And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his fo…

One who smites. I give my back to the smiters. Isa. l. 6.

One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate.

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Fragments; atoms; finders. [Prov. Eng.] Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson.

Fragments; atoms; smithers. [Colloq.] W. Black.

The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape. Moxon.

Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.

Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.

The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.] Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.

Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep. [Eng.] Woodsward.

p. p. of Smite.

To infect. [Prov. Eng.]

Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.

Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.

A sword cutler. [Obs.]

A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.