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Webster 1913 Edition

Smoke

Smoke

(smōk)
,
Noun.
[AS.
smoca
, fr.
smeócan
to smoke; akin to LG. & D.
smook
smoke, Dan.
smög
, G.
schmauch
, and perh. to Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith.
smaugti
to choke.]
1.
The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
☞ The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot.
2.
That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
3.
Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
Shak.
4.
The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco;
as, to have a
smoke
.
[Colloq.]
☞ Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.
Smoke arch
,
the smoke box of a locomotive.
–
Smoke ball
(Mil.)
,
a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.
–
Smoke black
,
lampblack.
[Obs.]
–
Smoke board
,
a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.
–
Smoke box
,
a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney.
–
Smoke sail
(Naut.)
,
a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.
–
Smoke tree
(Bot.)
,
a shrub (
Rhus Cotinus
) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke.
–
To end in smoke
,
to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing.
Syn. – Fume; reek; vapor.

Smoke

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Smoked
;
p. pr. & vb n.
Smoking
.]
[AS.
smocian
; akin to D.
smoken
, G.
schmauchen
, Dan.
smöge
. See
Smoke
,
Noun.
]
1.
To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
Hard by a cottage chimney
smokes
.
Milton.
2.
Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall
smoke
agains. that man.
Deut. xxix. 20.
3.
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
Proud of his steeds, he
smokes
along the field.
Dryden.
4.
To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
5.
To suffer severely; to be punished.
Some of you shall
smoke
for it in Rome.
Shakespeare

Smoke

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke;
as, to
smoke
or fumigate infected clothing; to
smoke
beef or hams for preservation.
2.
To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
“Smoking the temple.”
Chaucer.
3.
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
I alone
Smoked
his true person, talked with him.
Chapman.
He was first
smoked
by the old Lord Lafeu.
Shakespeare
Upon that . . . I began to
smoke
that they were a parcel of mummers.
Addison.
4.
To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
[Old Slang]
5.
To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking;
as, to
smoke
a pipe or a cigar
.
6.
To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; – often with out;
as, to
smoke
a woodchuck out of his burrow
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Smoke

SMOKE

, n.
1.
The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning. It is paricularly applied to the volatile matter expelled from vegetable matter, or wood coal, peat, &c. The matter expelled from metallic substances is more generally called fume,fumes.
2.
Vapor; water exhalations.

SMOKE

, v.i.
1.
To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation. Wood and other fuel smokes when burning; amd smokes most when there is the least flame.
2.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man. Deut. 29.
3.
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, be smokes along the field.
4.
To smell or hunt out; to suspect. I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. [Little used.]
5.
To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.
6.
TO suffer; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.

Definition 2024

Smoke

Smoke

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English

Proper noun

Smoke

  1. (Britain, slang, with "the") London.
    I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.

smoke

smoke

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Noun

Smoke (1)

smoke ‎(countable and uncountable, plural smokes)

  1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
    Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes.‎
  3. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
    Hey, you got some smoke?
  4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
    I'm going out for a smoke.‎
  5. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
    The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.‎
  6. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
    The smoke of controversy.‎
  7. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
    smoke colour:    
  8. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
  9. (baseball, slang) A fastball.

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Verb

smoke ‎(third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)

  1. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
    He's smoking his pipe.‎
  2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
      He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
    Do you smoke?‎
  3. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
    My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.‎
    • Milton
      Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
  4. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
    You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.‎
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  6. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
    The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.‎
  7. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
    We smoked them at rugby.‎
  8. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
    He got smoked by the mob.‎
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
    • William Shakespeare
      He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
    • Chapman
      I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
    • Addison
      Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
      The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. […]
  10. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
  11. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
    • Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 20
      The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
  12. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
    • Dryden
      Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
  13. To suffer severely; to be punished.
    • Shakespeare
      Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
  14. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.

Synonyms

  • (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette): have a smoke

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Adjective

smoke

  1. Of the colour known as smoke.
  2. Made of or with smoke.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
      If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the […] hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

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Etymology

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca ‎(“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb smocian ‎(“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōną ‎(“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną ‎(“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meug(h)- ‎(“to smoke”). Related to Old English smēocan ‎(“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), West Frisian smoke ‎(“(to) smoke”), Dutch smook ‎(“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk ‎(“smoke”), German Low German smoken ‎(“to smoke”), German dialectal Schmauch ‎(“smoke”), Bavarian schmuckelen ‎(“to smell bad, reek”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: smōk, IPA(key): /sməʊk/
  • (US) enPR: smōk, IPA(key): /smoʊk/
  • Rhymes: -əʊk

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