=Small-Endians=, a “religious sect” in Lilliput, who made it an article of orthodoxy to break their eggs at the small end. By the Small-endians is meant the Protestant party; the Roman Catholics are called the Big-endians, from their making it a _sine quâ non_ for all true Churchmen to break their eggs at the big end.--Swift, _Gulliver’s Travels_ (“Voyage to Lilliput,” 1726). =Smallweed Family= (_The_), a grasping, ill-conditioned lot, consisting of grandfather, grandmother, and the twins, Bartholomew and Judy. The grandfather indulges in vituperative exclamations against his aged wife, with or without provocation, and flings at her anything he can lay his hand on. He becomes, however, so dilapidated at last that he has to be shaken up by his amiable grand-daughter, Judy, in order to be aroused to consciousness. _Bart._, i.e., _Bartholomew Smallweed_, a youth, who moulds himself on the model of Mr. Gruppy, the lawyer’s clerk, in the office of Kenge and Carboy. He prides himself on being “a limb of the law,” though under 15 years of age; indeed it is reported of him that his first long clothes were made out of a lawyer’s blue bag.--C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1852). =Sma´trash= (_Eppie_), the ale-woman at Wolf’s Hope village.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.). =Smauker= (_John_), footman of Angelo Cyrus Bantam. He invites Sam Weller to a “swarry” of “biled mutton.”--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). =Smectym´nuus=, the title of a celebrated pamphlet containing an attack upon episcopacy (1641). The title is composed of the initial letters of the five writers, =SM= (Stephen Marshall), =EC= (Edmund Calamy), =TY= (Thomas Young), =MN= (Matthew Newcomen), =UUS= (William Spurstow). Sometimes one U is omitted. Butler says the business of synods is: To find in lines of beard and face. The physiognomy of “Grace;” And by the sound and twang of nose, If all be sound within disclose ... The handkerchief about the neck (Canonical cravat of Smeck, From whom the institution came When Church and State they set on flame ...) Judge rightly if “regeneration” Be of the newest cut in fashion. _Hudibras_, i. 3 (1663). =Smelfungus.= Smollett was so called by Sterne, because his volume of _Travels through France and Italy_ is one perpetual snarl from beginning to end. The lamented Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on; but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discolored or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but ’twas nothing but the account of his own miserable feelings.--Sterne, _Sentimental Journey_ (1768).