smiling

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

/ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/

That smiles or has a smile.

smiling children
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

noun

The action of the verb to smile.

Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.
We […] shall ascend to our Father's home of holiness, to enjoy perpetually the smilings of his face […]1837, Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young Christian:

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