Definition of "smer" []

• Rank, rancid, or soiled butter. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In prior posts, I've been babbling about all these meanings applied to *mar-, *mer- or *smer- by Indo-Europeanists and how skeptical I am of one particular set of meanings in this clumsy word pile, that revolving around the notions of 'shimmer' and 'shine'."
• "Never before had any _smer_ or governor of the caravan who had appeared in the country of Amam opened up a road."
• "Royal despatch to the _smer uat_, the Kher-heb priest, the governor of the caravan, Herkhuf."