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A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

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  1. n. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
  2. n. A blouse; a smoock frock.
  3. a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
  4. v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
  5. n. a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
  6. v. embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally
  7. 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer. 2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. -- Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.] To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.
  8. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of orpertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the capturns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whosewhole building turns on a post.-- Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov.Eng.]
  9. n:100 v. embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally