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noun

Smoking n. A. & n. from Smoke.

Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars.

Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.

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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"Smoking" Quotes from Famous Books

... more than three hours high, when I had already cooked the best part of the horse. All the unfortunates were still asleep, and I found it was no easy matter to awake them. At last, I hit upon an expedient which did not fail; I stuck the ramrod of my gun into a smoking piece of meat, and held it so that the fumes should rise under their very noses. No fairy wand was ever more effective; in less than two minutes they were all chewing and swallowing their breakfast, with an energy that had anything but sleep in it. It is no easy matter to satisfy ...

— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat

... quarter of a mile out there is a sort of boiling, agitating the surface of the sea, and showing some deep trouble in the waters. I was then near the rail on the starboard quarter, and, smoking my cigar, was looking at the harbor disappearing behind the point round Cape Apcheron, while the range of the Caucasus ran ...

— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne

... to, the fire was speedily kindled, and the trapper himself began the culinary performance. It was executed with the characteristic excellence of the hunter, and a luscious meal was thus provided for all. At its conclusion, all stretched themselves upon the ground for the purpose of smoking and chatting, as was their usual custom ...

— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis

... beast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases filled with apricots and almonds. The baskets piled up with apricots and figs and oranges and pomegranates. Melons tastefully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... met the customary patrons. In the vestibule a few youths dressed in peasant style, with military caps, soldiers of the garrison who served as orderlies; within the dining-room, subaltern officers of a batallion of light infantry, young lieutenants who were smoking with a bored mien and gazing through the windows at the immense blue expanse like prisoners of the sea. During the meal they lamented their bad luck at having their youth wasted by being chained to this rock. They spoke of Majorca as a place of joy; they recalled ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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