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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang] 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. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Smoke \Smoke\, 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 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. 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.] Note: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: smoke n 1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: {fume}] 2: 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: {smoking}] 3: an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere" 4: (informal) something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors" 5: tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder [syn: {roll of tobacco}] 6: the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect [syn: {cannabis}, {marijuana}, {ganja}, {pot}, {grass}, {marihuana}, {dope}, {weed}, {gage}, {sess}, {sens}, {skunk}, {Mary Jane}] 7: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" [syn: {smoking}] 8: a baseball thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "He showed the batters nothing but smoke" [syn: {fastball}, {heater}, {hummer}, {bullet}] v 1: inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Di you smoke?" 2: emit fumes [syn: {fume}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: smoke vi 1. To {crash} or blow up usually spectacularly. "The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colorful). 2. [from automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast "That processor really smokes." Compare {magic smoke}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: smoke 1. To {crash} or blow up usually spectacularly. "The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colourful). 2. [Automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast "That processor really smokes." Compare {magic smoke}. [{Jargon File}]
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