SMOKE
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Smoke (sm&ō;k), n. [AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm&ö;g, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; 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.
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&hand_; 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.
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2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
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3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. Shak.
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4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.]
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&hand_; Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.
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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.
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Syn. -- Fume; reek; vapor.
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Smoke, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked (?); p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. sm&ö;ge. See Smoke, n.] 1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
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Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
Milton.
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2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
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The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man.
Deut. xxix. 20.
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3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
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Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
Dryden.
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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.
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5. To suffer severely; to be punished.
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Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
Shak.
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Smoke, v. 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.
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2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. “Smoking the temple.” Chaucer.
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3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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I alone
Smoked his true person, talked with him.
Chapman.
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He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
Shak.
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Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
Addison.
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4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang]
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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.
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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.
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