[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.
      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
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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