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A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

Wanting a smock. Chaucer.

A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

st Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.

children; also, a coarse hirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their ther clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.

Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A woman's under-garment; a smock. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Johnson.