SMACK  , a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TERM

term for a small decked or See also:

• HALF

half-decked See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, sailing under various rigs and used principally for fishing . The word, like so many See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea terms, was borrowed from the Dutch, where smak, earlier smacke, is the name of a See also:

• COASTING

coasting vessel; it is generally taken as a corruption of snack, cf . Swed. sndcka, See also:

• DAN

Dan. snackke, a small sailing-vessel, and is to be referred to the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root seen in " snake," " See also:

• SNAIL

snail," the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original meaning a gliding, creeping thing . " Smack," See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, and"smack," a See also:

• SMART, CHRISTOPHER (1722-1771)
• SMART, HENRY (1813–1879)
• SMART, JOHN (c. 1740–1811)
• SMART, SIR GEORGE THOMAS (1776–1867)

smart See also:

• SOUNDING (for derivation see SOUND above)

sounding See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow or slap, also used of the See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound of the lips in kissing or tasting, must be distinguished . In the first See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case the word is in O.E. smaec and is See also:

• COMMON

common to See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, cf . Dan. smag, Ger. schmecken, &c.; the second word is onomatopoeic, cf . " smash," and is also found in other Teutonic languages . It is not connected with the word meaning " taste," though no doubt confused owing to the sense of smacking the lips .