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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
.] 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 cigar6.
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 burrowWebster 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.