p. ode To choke, suffocate:--Wyrgeþ vel smoraþ st[r]angulat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 32. Se esne genimende smorede hine (suffocabat eum), Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 18, 28. Ða þornas smoradun (suffocaverunt) hiǽ, 13, 7. [Wend he smore þat sede, C. M. 5573. All suld be smored, Pr. C. 7601. Smore wythe smeke fumigo, smoryd famigatus, smorynge fumigacio, Prompt. Parsmore as a word in northern dialects, and quotes Hall's Chronicles; and smoor is given as a Lincolnshire word, E. D. S. Pub.]