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▪ I. unˈsmooth, a.
[un-1 7. Cf. OE. unsmóðe (usually unsméðe).]
Not smooth; rough.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 9/2 A suture is vnsmothe and rugged. 1621Fletcher Thierry & Theod. iii. i, Can there be any way unsmooth, has end So fair? 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 356 May my limbes be for ever rough, and my chinne unsmooth. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 631 Those dropping Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance. 1786Burns Lament v, Alas! Life's path may be unsmooth! 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vi. 165 A peasant's brow, Unsmooth, ignoble, save to me and God.
b. Of sounds, speech, etc.
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. xliii, How may weake mortall ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his de⁓prostrate stile? 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. viii. 79 Yet his own Poems are harsh, and unsmooth. 1812Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 366 Its unsmooth mixture of the vocal and the organic..of language. 1846J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 41 The things I sing of in verse unsmooth.
c. Of manners or conduct.
1648Herrick Hesper., Hymn to Graces, Give me..Sweetnesse to allay my sowre And unsmooth behaviour. 1782V. Knox Ess. clxv. II. 328 A-propose, pray do you reconcile your unsmooth address to those rules of decorum?
Hence unˈsmoothness.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 9/2 We perceave noe vnsmoothnes; than [= but] all even and smothe.
▪ II. unˈsmooth, v.
[un-2 6 a.]
trans. To deprive of smoothness; to ruffle.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ix. (1626) 181 Yet Iupiters last words Vnsmooth her forehead with obseru'd distaste. 1654W. Montagu Dev. Ess. ii. viii. 155 Her forehead not unsmooth'd by any wrinkle. 1805Miniature No. 33 (1806) II. 166 Wine..which causes..the reverend churchman to unsmooth his episcopal sanctity. 1849M. Arnold New Sirens 123 Storms unsmooth'd your folded valleys. |