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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



... is at work, about twenty tons a week are reduced to pig iron; in this state it is carried to the forges, where about eight tons a week are hammered out into bars, ploughshares, &c., ready for the smith." ...
— Iron Making in the Olden Times - as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean • H. G. Nicholls
... be if I succeed!' he said as he strode up and down the parlour; he was too excited to remain in one place and joy radiated from all his features. 'From now on they are welcome to call me Balzac the tale-smith! I shall go on tranquilly squaring my stones and enjoying in advance the amazement of all those purblind critics when they finally discover the great structure ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
... devotion accordingly reiterate the maxim that we must let our feelings go, and pay no regard to them whatever. In an admirable and widely successful little book called The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, by Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, I find this lesson on almost every page. Act faithfully, and you really have faith, no matter how cold and even how dubious you may feel. "It is your purpose God looks at," writes Mrs. Smith, "not your feelings about that purpose; and your purpose, ...
— A Book of Exposition • Homer Heath Nugent
... great talker—he harangued his friends; and there was more than wit in the saying of Sidney Smith, that his conversation would have been improved by a ...
— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee
... was Mrs. Hamlyn's turn to look white. Walter Hamlyn?—the name of her own dear son! when she had expected him to say Sam Smith, or John Jones! ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 • Various


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