Crossword-Solution: SMOOTHERS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But, some silken-clad smoothers, some purple parasites, some fawners in frippery, some greedy and begartered ones in gorgeous garments, he does impeach—ay, and wrathfully! Is it asked on what grounds? They shall be stated.

Scott speaks of this in his Lay of the Last Minstrel, where he describes the old bard, who "'Tuned to please a peasant's ear The harp a King had loved to hear." These Bards, or Scalds, meaning Smoothers of Language, were welcome guests in the early ages, at the Courts of Kings and Princes.

The Bard, or Scald (literally smoothers of language, from _scaldre_, to polish), formed an important feature of the courts of the princes and more powerful nobles.

These are my flatterers, my soothers, my clawbacks, my smoothers, my parasites, my saluters, my givers of good-morrows, and perpetual orators; which makes me verily think that the supremest height of heroic virtue described by Hesiod consisteth in being a debtor, wherein I held the first degree in my commencement.

From these ruins we secured great quantities of pottery, arrow and spear heads, knives, grinding-stones, arrow-smoothers, and many of the small flint adzes, which were undoubtedly used for making the blocks for the structures on the mesa and for excavating the cave dwellings.