dial. and Sc. Also smurr, smir(r. [Cf. prec.] intr. To drizzle.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl., It’s Smurrin, it rains slightly.
1838. Holloway, Prov. Dict., To smur.… To rain lightly and mistily.
1881. FitzGerald, Lett., I. 472. It has been what we call down here ‘smurring’ rather than raining.
1898. N. Munro, John Splendid, 290. Whenever rains are smirring and mists are blowing.
