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
(Smoke), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked ; p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] [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.
