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Smolt a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Smolt a. Now only dial. Also 6, 9 dial. smoult, 6 Sc. smowt. [OE. smolt, = MDu. smolt, smout (WFris. smout sheltered), Da. smult; cf. OS. smultro quietly, calmly, MSw. smultna (Sw. dial. smyltna) to become calm. A commoner form in OE. was smylte.]

1   † 1.  Of weather: Fair, fine, calm. Obs.

2   Halliwell’s ‘Smoult, hot; sultry. Kent.’ is not otherwise certified. In Norfolk dial., smoultin’ is used to denote the calming down of a stormy sea during the ebb-tide.

3 c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xvi. 2. [ʓe] cueðas, ‘smolt bið, read is … heofon.’

4 c. 1160.  Hatton Gosp., Matt. xvi. 2. On æfen ʓe cweðeð, ‘to-morʓen hit beoð smolt weder.’

5 1513.  Douglas, Æneid, XIII. viii. 30. Makand the hevynnis fayr, cleyr, and scheyne, The weddir smowt, and firmament serene.

6 a. 1550.  Peblis to Play, vi. in Pinkerton, Sc. Ballads (1783), II. 4. Mirrie Madinis, think not lang; The wedder is fair and smolt.

7   † 2.  Pleasant, agreeable, affable. Obs.

8 13[?].  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1763. With smoþe smylyng & smolt þay smeten in-to merþe.

9 1553.  Respublica, III. iii. 80 (Brandl). Respub. This ys Honestee. People. A gaye smoult smirking howrecop tis, zo mot I þee!

10   3.  Bright, shining; smooth, polished.

11 1837.  Wilson’s Tales Borders, III. 304/2. He saw their smolt spirits scour awa to heaven like fire flaughts!

12 1852–.  in dial. glossaries (Sussex, Hants.).

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