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Smoke
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
(2):
(n.) Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
(3):
(n.) To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
(4):
(n.) 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):
(v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
(6):
(v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
(7):
(n.) The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
(8):
(n.) Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
(9):
(n.) That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
(10):
(n.) 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.
(11):
(v. t.) 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.
(12):
(v. t.) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
(13):
(v. t.) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
(14):
(n.) To suffer severely; to be punished.
(15):
(v. t.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Smoke'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/smoke.html. 1828.
