Found 1 hit - Term: smoke arch, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smoke \smoke\ sm=ok, n. as. smoca, fr. sme'ocan to smoke;
akin to lg. d. smook smoke, dan. sm"og, 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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see also:
smoke arch smoke ball smoke black smoke board smoke box smoke sail
smoke tree rhus cotinus to end in smoke
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