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smit

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smit [smɪt]
n
(Medicine / Pathology)
the Scot and northern English dialect an infection he's got the smit
[Old English smitte a spot, and smittian to smear; related to Old High German smiz, whence Middle High German smitz]
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Gray not only saved his money, but being suddenly smit with the desire to rise, also studied his profession, and he is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged ship, married besides, and the father of a family.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
  For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee SION and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget Those other two equal'd with me in Fate, So were I equal'd with them in renown, Blind THAMYRIS and blind MAEONIDES, And TIRESIAS and PHINEUS Prophets old.
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