Word Meanings - SMITHCRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.

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• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SMITHERY
  1. The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy. 2. Work done by a smith; smithing. The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke. Burke.
• SMITHEREENS
  Fragments; atoms; smithers. W. Black.
• SMITHING
  The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape. Moxon.
• SMITHY
  The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.
• WHITESMITH
  1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• IRONSMITH
  An East Indian barbet , inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith. (more info) 1. A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.
• GUNSMITHERY; GUNSMITH; GUNSMITHING
  The art or business of a gunsmith.
• JACKSMITH
  A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. Dryden.
• DISOCCUPATION
  The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
• COPPERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
• GUNSMITH
  One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.
• TINSMITH
  One who works in tin; a tinner.