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  1. 1. n. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A blouse; a smoock frock. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles Source: wordnet
  6. 6. v. embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally Source: wordnet
  7. 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. Source: webster
  8. 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.] Source: adambom
  9. 9. n:100 v. embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally Source: ecdict

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