a. Also 7 smoothrie. [f. SMOTHER sb. or v. + -Y1.] Tending to smother.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 339. Now else should not … The plough beame hang aloft in smoothrie smoke.

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1840.  Browning, Sordello, III. 717. We and you in smothery chafe,… stumbled thus far into Zin The Horrid.

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1893.  Sarah Grand, in Pall Mall Mag., I. 781. The softly smothery effect of her manner.

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