Vocabulary : Smift to Smiling
Smift : A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.Smight : To smite.
Smilacin : See Parrilin.
Smilax : A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. ;; A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Smile : To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. ;; To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. ;; To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty. ;; To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors. ;; To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors. ;; To affect in a certain way with a smile. ;; The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown. ;; A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile. ;; Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence. ;; Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.
