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Webster 1913 Edition
Smither
Smith′er
(smĭth′ẽr)
, Noun.
1.
Light, fine rain.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
pl.
Fragments; atoms; finders.
[Prov. Eng.]
Smash the bottle to
smithers
. Tennyson.
Definition 2024
smither
smither
English
Noun
smither (plural smithers)
- (chiefly in the plural) A fragment or atom.
- Tennyson
- Smash the bottle to smithers.
- 1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg (page 164)
- That claim of mine, which was yours, has got a seventeen-foot vein and a sandstone roof, and not a smither of slate or bone in it.
- Tennyson
- (Britain, dialect, dated) Light, fine rain.