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Smoked   /smoʊkt/   Listen
verb
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."
3.
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. "I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him." "He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu." "Upon that... I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers."
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.


Smoke  v. i.  (past & past part. smoked; pres. part. smoking)  
1.
To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek. "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes."
2.
Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. "The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man."
3.
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. "Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field."
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."





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"Smoked" Quotes from Famous Books



... Whistler dismissed the subject by calling for a match, and then smoked his cigarette in grim silence, blowing the smoke ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... heavy, and would sink low if it were washed down," he said; and for the next quarter of an hour he repeated the washing process, while Melchior smoked, the mule browsed on the succulent herbage, and Saxe devoted himself to creeping farther along by the stream, and peering down into the pools in ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... into the room, Andrews saw a man sitting on the window ledge smoking. He was dressed as a second lieutenant, his puttees were brilliantly polished, and he smoked through a long, amber cigarette-holder. His pink ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... calumets in silence. Radisson was ordered to sit down. A coal of fire was put in the bowl of the great Council Pipe and passed reverently round the assemblage. Then the old Huron woman entered, gesticulating and pleading for the youth's life. The men smoked on silently with deep, guttural "ho-ho's," meaning "yes, yes, we are pleased." The woman was granted permission to adopt Radisson as a son. Radisson had won his end. Diplomacy and courage had saved his life. It now remained to ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut
... next week, the Maestro also came to know. For now regularly every evening as he smoked and lounged upon his long, cane chair, trying to persuade his tired body against all laws of physics to give up a little of its heat to a circumambient atmosphere of temperature equally enthusiastic; as he watched among the rafters of the roof the snakes swallowing the rats, the rats devouring ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various


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