'Smoke tree' definitions:
Definition of 'smoke tree'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus [syn: smoke tree, smoke bush]
noun
Greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor [syn: smoke tree, Dalea spinosa]
Definition of 'Smoke tree'
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 tree'
From: GCIDE
- Venetian \Ve*ne"tian\, a. [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.] Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. [1913 Webster]
- Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when closed, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.
- Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
- Venetian chalk, a white compact talc or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.
- Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.
- Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
- Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
- Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree ({Rhus Cotinus}) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
- Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head. [1913 Webster]