Smith
[smɪθ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable).
(noun.) someone who works at something specified.
(noun.) Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790).
(noun.) English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631).
(noun.) religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844).
(noun.) United States blues singer (1894-1937).
(noun.) United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886).
(noun.) United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986).
(noun.) United States sculptor (1906-1965).
(noun.) Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919).
Checker: Trent--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.
(n.) One who makes or effects anything.
(n.) To beat into shape; to forge.
Checker: Yale
Definition
n. one who forges with the hammer: a worker in metals: one who makes anything.—ns. Smith′ery the workshop of a smith: work done by a smith—also Smith′ing; Smith′y the workshop of a smith; Smith′y-coal a kind of small coal much used by smiths.
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Examples
- You will let me know any fresh development, Miss Smith. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Smith; promote him, he said, and the whole country will applaud. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But I mustn't, and won't; and you will have the goodness to tell Smith to say I am not at home when either of them calls. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Smith, embracing the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, had been added to my jurisdiction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is come just in the nick of time, said Smith. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- General Smith found Fort Heiman had been evacuated before his men arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He believes that Willoughby Smith had not an enemy in the world, and can give no reason for the crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Smith's divisions had encountered the rebel advanced pickets as early as half-past seven. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But Amelia has never forgiven that Smith to this day, though he is now a peaceful apothecary near Leicester Square. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Smith, and a battalion under Harry Wayne. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Well, sir, and what said Mrs. Smith? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Then carpenters, and smiths, and many other artisans, will be sharers in our little State, which is already beginning to grow? Plato. The Republic.
- No, I answered, you must hope the best, and recollect that merely being minus the Miss Smiths is something. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The smiths make larger incomes in buying and applying the machine-made shoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The university of smiths, the university of tailors, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Neither may they imitate smiths or other artificers, or oarsmen, or boatswains, or the like? Plato. The Republic.
- The smiths, he replied, will be far more numerous. Plato. The Republic.
- This was not a very ceremonious way of rendering homage to a patron saint, but I believe Old Clem stood in that relation towards smiths. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Her smiths take silver ingots and work them up into all manner of graceful and beautiful forms. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Who are the Smiths? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They talked about each others' houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And will there be in our city more of these true guardians or more smiths? Plato. The Republic.
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