From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton.
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2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
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The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke
agains. that man. --Deut. xxix.
20.
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3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
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Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
--Dryden.
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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.
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5. To suffer severely; to be punished.
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Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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.
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2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
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3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak.
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4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a
smoke. [Colloq.]
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Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming
self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming,
smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.
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{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.
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Syn: Fume; reek; vapor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense;
to perfume. "Smoking the temple." --Chaucer.
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3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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I alone
Smoked his true person, talked with him. --Chapman.
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He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. --Shak.
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Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a
parcel of mummers. --Addison.
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4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang]
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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.
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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.
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