Category:Smoke

Smoke, n. Etym: [as. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to lg. & d. Smook smoke, dan. smög, g. schmauch, and perh. to gr. 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.

Note: 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.]

Note: 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 Smoke, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked; p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] Etym: [as. smocian; akin to d. smoken, g. schmauchen, dan. smöge. See Smoke, n.]

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. Shak.

Smoke 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.

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. Shak. 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.