[f. the sb.]
† 1. trans. To render effeminate or womanish.
1614. Sylvester, Bethulia’s Rescue, III. 28. Here would the Mede show … that no pomp … Had ever power his Manly mind to smock.
† 2. intr. To consort with women. Obs. rare.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, IV. 126. Then we all agree; To … Smock and Knock it, Under the Green-wood Tree.
1731–8. Swift, Polite Conv., 176. You don’t smoke, I warrant you, but you smock.
3. trans. To dress in a smock.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, IV. 228. This is proper to the clown, Tho’ smock’d, or furr’d and purpled.
4. Needlework. To gather by means of sewing done in lines crossing each other diagonally, after a pattern common on smock-frocks.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 May, 11/1. Her gown is of Liberty silk,… smocked here and gathered there.
