? Obs. Also 1 smeðnysse, smeþnys, 4 smeþe-, 4–5 smethenes. [f. SMEETH a.] Smoothness.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 26. He forʓeaf … hreoflium smeðnysse.
c. 1050. Suppl. Ælfric’s Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 177. Planities, smeþnys.
1388. Wyclif, 1 Kings vi. 18. And al the hows … hadde hise smethenessis, and hise ioynyngis maad suteli.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.). Þe same bones … meue þe more spedefullich by smeþenes and softenes.
c. 1470. Promp. Parv. (K.), 460/2. Smethenes, planicies.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl., Smeethness, smoothness, Clydes[dale].
