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Quality or state of being smooth.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition. It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary pe…

The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. Macaulay.

of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.…

A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. Simmonds.

Smoothness; baldness. [R.]

Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.

Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc. Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health. Bacon.

Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.

Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance. -- n.

ce the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle for use on rough roads and to approximate to the smoothness in running of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which…

High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. [R.] Evelyn.

To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish. Moxon.

Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.

The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.

The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.

The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.