<hw>Smelt</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given, in Melbourne, to the fish <i>Clupea vittata</i>, Castln., family <i>Clupeidae</i>, or <i>Herrings</i> (q.v.); in New Zealand and Tasmania, to <i>Retropinna richardsonii</i>, Gill, family <i>Salmonidae</i>. Its young are called <i>Whitebait</i> (q.v.). The <i>Derwent Smelt</i> is a Tasmanian fish, H<i>aplochiton sealii</i>, family <i>Haplochitonidae</i>, fishes with an adipose fin which represent the salmonoids in the Southern Hemisphere; <i>Prototroctes</i> is the only other genus of the family known (see Grayling). <i>Haplochiton</i> is also found in the cold latitudes of South America.
<hw>Sminthopsis</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name for the genus of <i>Narrow-footed Pouched Mice</i>, which, like the English field-mice, are entirely terrestrial in their habits. See <i>Pouched Mouse</i>. In Homer's' Iliad,' Bk. I. ver. 39, <i>Smintheus</i> is an epithet of Apollo. It is explained as "mouse-killer," from <i>sminthos</i>, a field-mouse, said to be a Cretan word.
<hw>Smoke</hw>, v. (slang). See quotation.
1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' June 26, p. 8, col. 8:
"He said to the larrikins, `You have done for him now; you have killed him.' `What!' said one of them, `do not say we were here. Let us smoke.' `Smoke,' it may be explained, is the slang for the `push' to get away as fast as possible."
<hw>Smooth Holly</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Holly</i>.
<hw>Snailey</hw>, <i>n</i>. bullock with horn slightly curled.
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. ix. p. 68:
"Snaileys and poleys, old and young, coarse and fine, they were a mixed herd in every sense."
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 133: