Smoke | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Smōke, n.

noun

(20), n. [A-S. smocca, smēoc, smēc, smyc, from smēocan, to smoke; L. Ger. & D. smook, Dan. smög, H. Ger. schmauch.] 1. The exhalation, visible vapor, or substance that escapes or is expelled from a burning body; — applied especially to the volatile matter expelled from vegetable matter, or wood, coal, peat, and the like, the matter expelled from metallic substances being more generally called fume, or fumes. ☞ 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, which floats in the hydrogen: this compound is smoke. The disengaged carbon deposited on solid bodies is soot. 2. That which resembles smoke, as vapor or watery exhalations. ☞ Smoke is sometimes joined with other words, forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-cloud, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, smoke-wreath, and the like.

Smōke, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SMOKED (smōkt); p. pr. & vb. n. SMOKING.] [A-S. smocian, smēocan, smycan, smēocan, L. Ger. smoken, smōken, D. smoken, Dan. smōge, H. Ger. schmauchen.] 1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton. 2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man. Deut. xxix. 20. 3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. Dryden.

To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth, and puffing it out.
To suffer; to be punished.

Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Shak.

Smōke, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate, or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

Sense 2. To smell out; to find out; to discover; — often with out. [Rare.]

I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman.

He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak.

Sense 3. To sneer at; to ridicule to the face. [Obs.]

Sense 4. To burn and draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or cigar.

Sense 5. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; — often with out.