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Smith   /smɪθ/   Listen
noun
Smith  n.  
1.
One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. "Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword."
2.
One who makes or effects anything. (R.)


verb
Smith  v. t.  To beat into shape; to forge. (Obs.) "What smith that any (weapon) smitheth."





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"Smith" Quotes from Famous Books



... compelled to evacuate Toulon some time before, with all the forces under his command, after blowing up, by the aid of Sir Sidney Smith, several of the forts, and destroying or carrying away every ship in the harbour; while the unfortunate inhabitants were exposed to all the cruelties which their sanguinary opponents could inflict ...
— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston
... my reservoir. The devil is in your contrivance, sir; you can take it away," and the German pounced upon a smith's hammer, flung the skin down on an anvil, and, with all the strength that rage gives, dealt the talisman the most formidable blow that had ever resounded through ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac
... he had no copyright, except for the mere clothing in which his ideas were placed before the world. The body was common property. So, too, with Bacon and Locke, Leibnitz and Descartes, Franklin, Priestley, and Davy, Quesnay, Turgot, and Adam Smith, Lamarck and Cuvier, and all other men who have aided in carrying science to the point at which it has now arrived. They have had no property in their ideas. If they labored, it was because they had a thirst for knowledge. They could expect no pecuniary ...
— Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition • Henry C. Carey
... Old Mr. Smith was the minister in those days,—a good man who had been much tossed about by a stormy and temperamental wife—and his eyes used to rest yearningly upon little Enid Royce, seeing in her the promise of "virtuous and comely Christian womanhood," to use one of his own phrases. ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather
... hour of your time this morning," said Mr. Smith, as he entered the counting-room of his neighbour, ...
— Finger Posts on the Way of Life • T. S. Arthur


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