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necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.

The quality or state of being smothery.

In a smothering manner.

Tending to smother; stifling.

To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

nihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid. -- Fire balloon. (a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire placed in the lower part. (b) A balloon sent up at night with firework…

The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

re gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering…

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon. This woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 1 Kings iii. 19. A heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire. Dryden.

To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.

To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.] We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. Shak.

To suffocate or stifle; to smother. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.

Smoldering; suffocating; smothery. [Obs.] A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke. Spenser.

To suffocate or smother. [Written also smore.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir T. More. Burns.

To smother. See Smoor. [Obs.] Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored. Du Bartas.

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion. I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. Waterland.