Smoke /(smōk)/

Smoke

n.
  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.
  2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
  3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
  4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.]

Phrases & Compounds
Smoke arch
the smoke box of a locomotive.
Smoke ball
a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.
Smoke black
lampblack.
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
a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.
Smoke tree
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.

Smoke

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Smoked; p. pr. & vb n. 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.
    — Deut. xxix. 20.
  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.

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.
  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.