'Smoke' definitions:

Definition of 'smoke'

(from WordNet)
noun
A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke, fume]
noun
A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles" [syn: smoke, smoking]
noun
An indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"
noun
Something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
noun
Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder [syn: roll of tobacco, smoke]
noun
Street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
noun
The act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" [syn: smoke, smoking]
noun
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet]
verb
Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"
verb
Emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" [syn: fume, smoke]

Definition of 'Smoke'

From: GCIDE
  • Smoke \Smoke\ (sm[=o]k), n. [AS. smoca, fr. sme['o]can to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm["o]g, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. ??? 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Fume; reek; vapor. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Smoke'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. "Smoking the temple." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. [1913 Webster]
  • I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Smoke'

From: GCIDE
  • Smoke \Smoke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked; p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. sm["o]ge. See Smoke, n.]
  • 1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek. [1913 Webster]
  • Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. [1913 Webster]
  • The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man. --Deut. xxix. 20. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. [1913 Webster]
  • Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To suffer severely; to be punished. [1913 Webster]
  • Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

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