Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SMUG'GLING, ppr.

Importing or exporting goods contrary to law.

SMUG'LY, adv.

Neatly; sprucely. [Not in use.] – Gay.

SMUG'NESS, n.

Neatness; spruceness without elegance. [Not in use.] – Sherwood.

SMU'LY, a.

Looking smoothly; demure. [Not used.]

SMUT, n. [Dan. smuds; Sax. smitta; D. smet, a spot or stain; Sw. smitta, to taint; D. smoddig, dirty; smodderen, to smut; G. schmutz.]

1. A spot made with soot or coal; or the foul matter itself.
2. A parasitic fungus, which forms on corn. Sometimes the whole ear is blasted and converted into smut. This is often the fact with maiz. Smut lessens the value of wheat.
3. Obscene language.

SMUT, v.i.

To gather smut; to be converted into smut.

SMUT, v.t.

1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot or other dirty substance. – Addison.
2. To taint with mildew. – Bacon.
3. To blacken; to tarnish.

SMUTCH, v.t. [from smoke; Dan. smöger. Qu.]

To blacken with smoke, soot or coal. B. Jonson. Note. We have a common word in New England pronounced smooch, which I take to be smutch. It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.

SMUTCH'ED, a.¹

Blackened with smoke.

SMUTCH-ED, a.²

Blackened with smoke or other foul matter. [1841 Addenda only.]

SMUT'TI-LY, adv.

1. Blackly; smokily; foully.
2. With obscene language.

SMUT'TI-NESS, n.

1. Soil from smoke, soot, coal or smut.
2. Obsceneness of language.

SMUT'TY, a.

1. Soiled with smut, coal, soot or the like.
2. Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.
3. Obscene; not modest or pure; as, smutty language.

SNACK, n. [Qu. from the root of snatch.]

1. A share. It is now chiefly or wholly used in the phrase, to go snacks with one, that is, to have a share. – Pope.
2. A slight hasty repast.

SNACK'ET, or SNECK'ET, n.

The hasp of a casement. [Local.] – Sherwood.

SNAC'OT, n.

A fish. [L. acus.] – Ainsworth.

SNAF'FLE, n. [D. sneb, snavel, bill, beak, snout; G. Dan. and Sw. snabel; from the root of nib, neb.]

A bridle consisting of a slender bit-mouth, without branches. – Encyc.

SNAF'FLE, v.t.

To bridle; to hold or manage with a bridle.

SNAG, n.

1. A short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a shoot; a knot. The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. – Dryden.
2. A tooth, in contempt; or a tooth projecting beyond the rest. – Prior.
3. The branch of a sunken tree.

SNAG, v.t.

To run against the branches of a sunken tree, as in American rivers.

SNAG'GED, or SNAG'GY, a.

Full of snags; full of short rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots; as, a snaggy tree; a snaggy stick; a snaggy oak. – Spenser. More.

SNAG'GED, pp.

Run against a snag, or branch of a sunken tree.

SNAIL, n. [Sax. snægel, snegel; Sw. snigel; Dan. snegel; G. schnecke; dim. from the root of snake, sneak.]

1. A slimy slow-creeping animal, of the genus Helix and order of Mollusca. The eyes of this insect are in the horns, one at the end of each, which it can retract at pleasure. – Encyc.
2. A drone; a slow-moving person.

SNAIL-CLAV-ER, or SNAIL-TRE-FOIL, n.

A plant of the genus Medicago.

SNAIL-FLOW-ER, n.

A plant of the genus Phaseolua.