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Smock

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. -- Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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