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Small-Time
- adjective - of minor importance; "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room"; "a small-time actor"
- Unimportant, insignificant, minor
Smaragdine
- - Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
Smaragdite
- - A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
Smattering
- verb - a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
- a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge; "She smatters Russian"
- to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
- work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"
Smelteries
- noun - an industrial plant for smelting
Smickering
- - Amorous glance or inclination.
Smoldering
- verb - burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire"
- have strong suppressed feelings
- showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel
Smothering
- verb - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
- envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
- form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
Snail-Like
- - Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.