SMITAsagnorðað, [Ulf. smeitan = ἐπιχρίειν; A. S. smîtan; Engl. smite; Germ. schmeissen; Swed. smeta; for the change from ‘smear’ to ‘flog’ see the analogy in ríða B, p. 499, col. 1]:—to steam from being fat or oiled.