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. A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. (Zool.) See Mollemoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stupid person; a dolt. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A donkey. [ Cant ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A negro. [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Theat. Slang) [ More fully musical moke. ] A performer, as a minstrel, who plays on several instruments. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sw. mallemucke the stormy petrel. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar. [ Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smög, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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 ]

☞ 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 ]

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. [ 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 ]

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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 ]

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. Same as Puffball. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To dry by or in smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making or having no smoke. “Smokeless towers.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. It is usually based on guncotton (nitrocellulose). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. t. 1. To drive from a refuge or hiding place by causing dense smoke or other noxious fumes to permeate the refuge; as, the police smoked out the bank robbers with tear gas. [ PJC ]

2. Hence: [ metaphorical ] To expose; to force into public view; to reveal in its true light; as, the reporter smoked out the waffling candidate with a direct question, exposing his view on the issue. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who dries or preserves by smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who smokes tobacco or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A smoking car or compartment, such as a car on a train where smoking is allowed. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. [ Obsolescent. ]

That evening A Company had a “smoker” in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp. Strand Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. An amateurish pornographic movie. [ Colloq. ]

black smoker, a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400° C, and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as tube worms have been found to live in the areas near black smokers. Additional information is available from The Natural History Museum of London and The American Museum of Natural History Expeditions.