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Found 7 hits - Term: smoke, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[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 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      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
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smoke \smoke\, v. i. imp.  p. p. smoked; p. pr.  vb n.
   smoking. as. smocian; akin to d. smoken, g. schmauchen,
   dan. sm"oge. 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
      1913 webster
see also:
smoked smoking smoke 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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: 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: street names for marijuana syn: pot, grass, green
        goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, skunk,
         locoweed, mary jane
     7: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went
        outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" syn: smoking
     8: baseball a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
        late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but
        smoke" syn: fastball, heater, hummer, bullet
     v 1: inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "we
          never smoked marijuana"; "do you smoke?"
     2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "the chimney was fuming"
        syn: fume
see also:
fume smoking roll of tobacco pot grass green goddess 
dope weed gage sess sens 
skunk locoweed mary jane fastball heater 
hummer bullet 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
285 moby thesaurus words for "smoke":
   aerate, aerify, afterdamp, air, air-dry, airy nothing, anhydrate,
   ash, ashes, atomize, attaint, bake, be livid, be pissed, becloud,
   bedarken, bedaub, befog, begrime, bemire, bemist, bemud, besmear,
   besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, blackdamp, blacken, blackwash,
   blast-freeze, blot, blotch, blow, blur, bluster, boil, brand,
   breath, breathe out, brine, browned off, brush, bubble, bucket,
   bullet, burn, butt, calx, carbon, carbonate, carry on, chafe,
   chain-smoke, charcoal, chaw, chew, chewing, chlorinate, chokedamp,
   cinder, clabber up, clinker, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, coal,
   coke, coom, cork, corn, crow, cure, damp, darken, darken over,
   daub, dehumidify, dehydrate, denigrate, desiccate, dinge, dirt,
   dirty, dirty up, discolor, distill, drag, drain, draw, dross, dry,
   dry-cure, dry-salt, dust, ebon, ebonize, ebony, effluvium, embalm,
   emit, encloud, enmist, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides,
   ephemeris, ether, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate,
   exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, exsiccate, fag, fetid air,
   fire, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fluidize, fly, fog, fractionate,
   freeze, freeze-dry, fret, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off,
   give out, give vent to, go on, grime, habitual smoking, hasten,
   have a conniption, haze, hydrogenate, illusion, inhale,
   inhale snuff, ink, insolate, irradiate, jerk, jet, kiln, kipper,
   lava, let out, malaria, marinade, marinate, mark, mayfly, melanize,
   mephitis, miasma, mire, mist, muck, muck up, muddy, mummify, murk,
   nicotine addiction, nicotinism, night, nigrify, nubilate,
   obnubilate, obscure, open the floodgates, open the sluices,
   overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, oxygenate, parch,
   perfume, phantom, pickle, pissed off, pitch, preservatize, puff,
   puff of smoke, pull, quick-freeze, rage, raise cain, raise hell,
   raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, raven,
   reek, refrigerate, rub, run, rush, salt, scorch, scoria, sear,
   season, seethe, send out, shade, shadow, shrivel, simmer, singe,
   sizzle, slag, slime, sloe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smog,
   smoke-cure, smokes, smoking, smoking habit, smokings, smolder,
   smudge, smut, smutch, snows of yesteryear, soak up, soil, soot,
   speed, spirit, sponge, spray, stain, steam, stew, stigmatize,
   storm, stuff, sublimate, sublime, sullage, sun, sun-dry, swab,
   tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, taint, take on, take snuff, tar,
   tarnish, thin air, throw a fit, throw off, tobaccoism, torrefy,
   towel, vapor, vaporize, volatile, volatilize, water vapor, weazen,
   whiz, wipe, wither, wizen, zip




[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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.


see also:
crash magic smoke 
[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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
     
     
see also:
crash magic smoke jargon file 

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