The smee. Also smeeth duck.

Any of several birds with plumage suggestive of the traditional nun's habit. More fully white nun. The smew, Mergus albellus; spec. the adult…

Any of a group of large Holarctic diving ducks of the genus Mergus, having a long, narrow, serrated bill hooked at the tip. Cf. sawbill, n. a.

A name variously assigned to the smew, widgeon, pochard, and scaup-duck.

A saw-billed duck (Mergus or Mergellus albellus) belonging to the merganser group; the white nun.

The smew, n. Cf. weasel-coot n., weasel-duck n. at compounds 2.

Chiefly English regional. Either of two small ducks that occur in southern and eastern Britain chiefly as winter visitors, the wigeon (Anas penelope)…

(a) the smew, Mergus albellus; (b) the goldeneye, Bucephala clangula; (c) the tufted duck, Aythya fuligula.

(See quot. 1813.)