Definition of "smatch" [smatch]

• Smack, taste (noun)
• Tincture (noun)
• Trace, small quantity, smidge, smattering or smidgen (noun)
• To have a taste, smack. (verb)
• To have a taste or sample of, smack of, taste. (verb)

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• "The monarch was to see bright raiment, flowers, pageantry, smiling faces only; to hear only the voices of singing men and singing women; no smatch of the abounding wormwood of life was to touch his lip, no glimpse of its we to disturb his serenity."
• "In waightie causes and for great purposes, wise perswaders vse graue & weighty speaches, specially in matter of aduise or counsel, for which purpose there is a maner of speach to alleage textes or authorities of wittie sentence, such as smatch morall doctrine and teach wisedome and good behauiour, by the Greeke originall we call him the directour, by the Latin he is called sententia: we may call him the sage sayer, thus."
• "Her husband had still his “smatch of honour,” his fragment of romance."