Smoothness, freedom from roughness, gentleness: their (women's) “s., like a goodly champaign plain, lays open all the little worms that creep,” Lucr. 1247. “her s., her very silence and her patience speak to the people,” As I, 3, 79. “in the very whirlwind of passion you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it s.” Hml. III, 2, 9.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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