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5. To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.

The flax and the barly was smitten.

Ex. ix. 31.

6. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.

Wake.

7. To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.

The charms that smite the simple heart.

Pope.

Smit with the love of sister arts we came.

Pope.

To smite off, to cut off. -- To smite out, to knock out, as a tooth. Exod. xxi. 27. -- To smite with the tongue, to reproach or upbraid; to revile. [Obs.] Jer. xviii. 18.

Smite, v. i. To strike; to collide; to beat. [Archaic]

The heart melteth, and the knees smite together.

Nah. ii. 10.

Smite, n. The act of smiting; a blow.

Smit"er (smt"r), n. One who smites.

I give my back to the smiters.

Isa. l. 6.

Smith (smth), n. [AS. smið; akin to D. smid, G. schmied, OHG. smid, Icel. smiðr, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smiþa (in comp.); cf. Gr. smi`lh a sort of knife, sminy`h a hoe, mattock.] 1. One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman.

Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword.

Tate.

2. One who makes or effects anything. [R.] Dryden.

Smith, v. t. [AS. smiðian. See Smith, n.] To beat into shape; to forge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

What smith that any [weapon] smitheth.

Piers Plowman.

Smith"craft` (-krft`), n. The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Smith"er (sm"r), n. 1. Light, fine rain. [Prov. Eng.]