| 释义 |
tobacco|təˈbækəʊ, təʊ-|
Forms: α. 6–8 tabaco, tabacco, (6–7 tabacca), 7 tabaccho. β. 6–7 tobaccho, 6–8 tobaco, tobacca, (6 tobacko, tobackco, 7 tobako, tobaccha, tobbacco, towbaco, tobaccow, 8 erron. tobago), 6– tobacco. γ. 7 tabac, toback, 7–9 tobac.
[Altered from Sp. tabaco, according to Oviedo, the name in the Carib of Haiti of the Y-shaped tube or pipe through which the Indians inhaled the smoke; but according to Las Casas, 1552, applied to a roll of dried leaves which was kindled at the end and used by the Indians like a rude cigar. Even before Oviedo's date the name had been taken by the Spaniards as that of the herb or its leaf, in which sense it passed from Sp. into the other European langs.: Pg. tabaco, It. † tabaco (1578), tabacco (Florio, 1598), F. tabac, whence Du., Ger., Boh. tabak, Du. (17th c.) taback; Pol. tabaka, Russ. tabaku. The original forms tabaco, tabacco, were retained in Eng. to the 18th c., but gradually driven out by tobacco. Da. and Sw., and many Ger. dialects, have also tobak, Ger. 18th c. toback.
1535Oviedo Hystoria de las Indias (1851) I. 131 A aquel tal instrumento con que toman el humo, o a las cañuelas que es dicho, llaman los Indios Tabaco: e no a la yerva o sueño que les toma (como pensavan algunos). Ibid. IV. 96 En lengua desta isla de Haiti o Española se dice tabaco.
But Dr. A. Ernst of Caracas, in Amer. Anthropologist 1889, p. 133, criticizes Oviedo's account, citing from the Guarani Vocabolario of Almeida Nogueira (Rio Janeiro, 1879) taboca as the extant Guarani name for such a tube as that described by Oviedo, and used for inhaling through the nostrils not smoke but stimulating powders. He gives some reasons for holding that a Guarani tribe using this may have occupied the northern extremity of Haiti; and suggests that Oviedo, writing 43 years after the event, may have confused the use of this instrument with that of the tubular roll of leaves mentioned by Las Casas as tabacos.
The island of Tobago, after which the herb has been said by some to be named, according to ‘Tobago, a Geogr. Description’ etc. (c 1750) p. 74, received the name from its resemblance in shape to the Indian pipe; but other accounts have been given: see quot. 1577 in sense 2.]
1. a. The leaves of the tobacco-plant (see 2) dried and variously prepared, forming a narcotic and sedative substance widely used for smoking, also for chewing, or in the form of snuff, and to a slight extent in medicine.
1588Harrison Chronol. in England (1877) i. App. i. p. lv, In these daies [1573] the taking-in of the smoke of the Indian herbe called Tabaco, by an instrument formed like a litle ladell, wherby it passeth from the mouth into the hed & stomach, is gretlie taken-vp & vsed in England. 1589Hakluyt Voy. 541 margin, Tabacco, & the great vertue thereof. 15971st Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. i. 397 What, oulde pipe of Tobacco! why, what's to paye? 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iv, He dos take this same filthy roguish tabacco, the finest, and cleanliest! 1598[see drink v.1 5]. 1600Sir R. Cecil in Calr. Carew MSS. III. 485, I haue sent you tobacco, as good as I could procure any. 1601Ibid. IV. 14 Tabacca. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 276 Ha, ha! Her loue is..just like a whiffe of Tabacco, no sooner in at the mouth, but out at the nose. 1608A. Willet Hexapla in Exod. 442 Taking with them strong beere..tobaccha. 1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 III. 293, I thinke the Diuell is sucking Tabaccho, heeres such a Mist. 1616Sylvester (title) Tobacco battered; and the Pipes shattered (About their Eares that idlely Idolize so base and barbarous a Weed). 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea xvii. 39 With drinking of Tobacco it is said, that the Roebucke was burned in the range of Dartmouth. 1643Baker Chron., Eliz. 65 Drake brings home with him Ralph Lane, who was the first that brought Tobacco into England. a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy i. (1670) 235 A little Town, famous for perfumed Tobacco in Powder. 1686Rec. Co. Merch. Alnwick in Gross Gild Merch. (1890) I. 131 Not to sell any grosser goods..towbaco or pipes. 1689W. Bullock in 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. vii. 109, 2 rowles of chawing tobbacco. 1705Beverley Virginia i. iv. (1722) 56 The Duty of two Shillings per Hogshead on all Tobacco's. 1726Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) I. 120, I am sure tobacca is there in its full force. 1777Account of Island of Tobago 8 note, Columbus gave this island the appellation of Tobago, or Tabago, from a whimsical notion that its form resembled that of a tubical instrument, so called by the Aborigines, with which they inhaled the fumes of tobacco—the Indian name of which plant was kohiba. 1823Byron Island ii. xix, Sublime Tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. 1847Disraeli Tancred iii. ii, The choice tobaccoes of Syria. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 364 Tobacco..has almost passed out of sight as a therapeutic agent.
b. A fashion shade; cf. tabac a. Cf. sense 3 c below.
1923Daily Mail 10 Jan. 1 Becoming Hat in good quality Petersham Ribbon... Colours: Grey, Cherry, Nigger, Tobacco, Peacock. Ibid. 5 June 6 In Pale and Mid Fawn,..Sky, Tobacco, Lemon. 1954[see alizarin]. 1972Country Life 7 Dec. (Suppl.) 24/2 Haroun Keshan [rug] with rich tobacco field. 1980G. M. Fraser Mr American i. iii. 41 Socks, in the fashionable shades of tobacco, Leander, Wedgwood and crushed strawberry.
2. a. The plant whose leaves are so used: Any one of various species of Nicotiana (N.O. Solanaceæ), esp. N. Tabacum, a native of tropical America, or N. rustica (green tobacco or wild tobacco), now widely cultivated.
1577Frampton tr. Monardes' Joyfull Newes ii. (title) The Seconde Part,..where is treated of the Tabaco, and of the Sassafras [orig. Seqvnda Parte... Do se trata del Tabaco, y dela Sassafras]. Ibid. 34 This hearbe which commonly is called Tabaco, is an Hearbe of muche antiquitie, and knowen amongest the Indians... The proper name of it amongest the Indians is Piecielt, for the name of Tabaco is geuen to it of our Spaniardes, by reason of an Ilande that is named Tabaco. 1588Harriot in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 271 There is an herbe [in Virginia] which is..called by the inhabitants Vppowoc: in the West Indies it hath diuers names... The Spanyards..call it Tabacco. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. v. 32 There, whether yt divine Tobacco were, Or Panachæa, or Polygony, She fownd. c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 48 The high land of Paria, one of the fruitfullest places in the worlde for excellent good tobacco. 1660Act 12 Chas. II. c. 34 §4 The planting of Tobaccho in any Phisike Garden. 1767J. Abercrombie Ev. Man his own Gard. (1803) 172 Tender kinds of annual flowers such as..French and African marigolds, chrysanthemum, broad-leaved tobacco [etc.]. 1853Royle Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 579 Tobacco..is now extensively cultivated in most parts of the world.
b. With defining words, applied to plants of other genera, as Congo tobacco (Cannabis sativa), found wild in the Congo (called by the natives deiamba), the narcotic flowers of which are used for smoking; English tobacco, † henbane, dial. colts-foot (also real tobacco grown in England); Indian tobacco, (a) Lobelia inflata of N. America, used medicinally, and having properties similar to those of tobacco; (b) Indian hemp, Cannabis indica (see hemp); mountain tobacco, Arnica montana (see arnica); riverside tobacco, Pluchea odorata (N.O. Compositæ) of the West Indies; wild tobacco = Indian tobacco (a), (Cent. Dict.); see also tobacco-plant.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxii. 284 Of yellow Henbane or English Tabaco. 1653Sev. Proc. Parlt. 9–16 Aug. No. 4. 48 (Stanf.) Reports..touching the Planting of English Tobacco in the County of Gloucester. 1678Anc. Trades Decayed 15 (Stanf.) He hath laid the like Impost on our English Tobaccho too. 1846[see mountain 9 d]. 1851[see Indian A. 4 b]. 1851R. O. Clarke in Hooker's Kew Jrnl. III. 9 (title) Short notice of the African Plant Diamba, commonly called Congo Tobacco. 1866Treas. Bot. 1154 Tobacco, Indian, Lobelia inflata; also Cannabis indica... —, Riverside, Pluchea odorata.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. simple attrib., as tobacco-ash, tobacco bag, tobacco barn, tobacco-breath, tobacco-cask, tobacco field, tobacco-fume, tobacco-garden, tobacco-jar, tobacco-juice, tobacco-merchant, tobacco-monger, tobacco-powder, tobacco-reek (Sc.), tobacco-smoke, tobacco-stalk, tobacco tin, tobacco-whiff; in Path. = caused by immoderate use of tobacco, as tobacco amaurosis, tobacco angina, tobacco disease, tobacco vertigo (see also tobacco heart in d).
b. objective and obj. gen., as tobacco-abusing, tobacco-chewing, † tobacco-fuming, tobacco-growing, tobacco-smoking, tobacco-taking ns. and adjs.; tobacco-chewer, tobacco-drier, tobacco-planter, tobacco-seller, tobacco-smoker, tobacco-taker, tobacco-trader, tobacco-whiffer.
c. similative, instrumental, etc., as tobacco-breathed |-brɛθt|, tobacco-coloured adj. tobacco-stained, tobacco-stinking adjs.; tobacco-like adj. and adv. tobacco-brown n. and adj. (cf. sense 1 b above);
d. Special Combs.: † tobacco bait, ? a regaling with tobacco, a ‘smoke’ (cf. bait n. 4); tobacco baron [baron 2 b, c], (a) colloq., a powerful tobacco merchant or manufacturer; (b) slang, a prisoner who dominates his companions because he is able to sell tobacco to them (cf. quot. 1950 s.v. baron 2 c); tobacco beetle, a small beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, of the family Ptinidæ, which infests stores of tobacco and other pungent substances (Cent. Dict. 1891); † tobacco clay = tobacco-pipe clay, pipe-clay; tobacco-cutter, (a) a person employed in cutting tobacco; (b) a machine or knife for this purpose; † tobacco-docks, humorous name for a substitute for tobacco made of dock-leaves; tobacco dove, a small light brown ground-dove, Columbina passerina, native to central America; † tobacco-fellow, a companion in tobacco-smoking, a fellow-smoker; tobacco fly, a hawk moth of the genus Protoparce, either P. quinquemaculata or P. sexta, the larva of which feeds on tobacco leaves; tobacco-grater, a machine for grinding tobacco for smoking; tobacco heart Path., a heart functionally disordered by excessive use of tobacco, characterized by a rapid and irregular pulse; tobacco house, † (a) a public resort where tobacco was sold and smoked; (b) a building in which tobacco is stored; tobacco housing (see quot. 1965); tobacco-knife, ‘a knife for cutting plug-tobacco into pieces convenient for the pocket’ (Knight Dict. Mech.); tobacco-leaf, (a) a leaf of the tobacco plant; (b) used attrib. to designate eighteenth-century Chinese porcelain decorated with a floral pattern including tobacco-leaves; tobacco-liquor = tobacco-water; tobacco lord (now Sc. Hist.), a wealthy tobacco merchant of Glasgow; tobacco-man, a man who sells tobacco, a tobacconist (now rare or Obs.); tobacco mosaic virus, the virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco and similar effects in other plants, much used as an experimental subject; tobacco paper, (a) paper in which tobacco is wrapped, or in which it is rolled for cigarettes; (b) paper impregnated with tobacco, used for fumigating; tobacco-pouch, a pouch for carrying tobacco for smoking or chewing; tobacco press, an apparatus for pressing tobacco into packages, or into a compact shape (Knight Dict. Mech.); Tobacco Road, the title of a novel (1932) and play by Erskine Caldwell, used allusively with reference to conditions of extreme poverty, esp. in rural districts of the Southern U.S.; tobacco roll, a roll of tobacco (see roll n.1 6 c); tobacco-roller, a person employed in making up tobacco in rolls; † toˈbacco-room, a room for smoking tobacco, a smoking-room; tobacco-root, a name for the root of the N. American plant Lewisia rediviva, used as food by the Indians; also = valerian 1; tobacco-shop, a shop in which tobacco is sold; formerly a public resort for smoking; tobacco-stick, ‘one of a series of sticks on which tobacco-leaves are hung to dry in curing-houses’ (Cent. Dict.); tobacco-stopper, a contrivance for pressing down the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe while smoking; tobacco streak, a streak disease of tobacco (streak n.1 7); tobacco-stripper, a person employed in stripping or tearing off the midribs of the leaves of tobacco; tobacco tongs, a light pair of tongs formerly used by smokers to pick up tobacco or a live coal for igniting it; tobacco-twister, a person employed in making twist tobacco (see twist n.); tobacco-water, an infusion of tobacco in boiling water, used in veterinary medicine, and for sprinkling on plants to rid them of noxious insects; tobacco-wheel, a machine for making twist tobacco (see quot.); tobacco worm, the larva of the tobacco fly. See also tobacco-box, etc.
1643[Angier] Lanc. Vall. Achor 20 Our..*Tobacco-abusing Commanders and Souldiers.
1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 60 *Tobacco amaurosis is a form of partial paralysis of the optic nerve met with in excessive smokers.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 29 *Tobacco angina is more prevalent amongst men.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. ix, Soiled with the marks of toddy-glasses and *tobacco-ashes.
1643R. Williams Key into Lang. of America vi. 44 Generally all the men throughout the countrey have a *Tobacco-bag, with a pipe in it, hanging at their back. 1864K. Cumming Jrnl. Hospital Life (1866) 120/2, I hinted to some of the ladies about having tobacco bags made. 1961L. van der Post Heart of Hunter vii. 115 He poured the capsules into an empty canvas tobacco bag.
1618S. Ward Jethro's Justice (1627) 18 [They] cannot endure to hold out a forenoon or afternoone sitting without a *Tobacco bayte, or a game at Bowles.
1877G. W. Bagby Old Virginia Gentleman (1910) 3 Where is your plank to come from, and your logs for new cabins and *tobacco barns? 1971Country Life 22 July 214/2 (caption) The tobacco barns are a characteristic feature of the landscape.
1961Spectator 7 July 5/1 The brewers and the ‘*tobacco barons’, who had recently raised their prices. 1964Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 15/1 Powers to limit the activities of prison ‘tobacco barons’ are provided in modernised prison and Borstal rules.
1896,1959*Tobacco beetle [see cigarette beetle s.v. cigarette 2].
1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. ii. 11 That thicke *tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throwes abroad.
1638Drummond of Hawthornden in Bk. Scot. Pasquils (1868) 69 Thesse *tobacco-breathed deuyns.
1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 437/1 We can furnish plain brocaded velour in solid color of myrtle green, deep red or *tobacco brown. 1940R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xiii. 99 She was wearing a tobacco-brown suit. 1977Tobacco-brown [see smoking vbl. n. 2 c].
a1832F. Trollope Notebk. in Dom. Manners Amer. (1949) 421 Doom to worse than death the spitter and *tobacco chewer.
Ibid., Whether a *tobacco-chewing age preceded that of Anacreon, my books do not say.
1878H. B. Baker Our Old Actors II. 95 Not the transpontine trouser-hitching, tobacco-chewing monster.
1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 7 Vessels made of *Tobacco-Clay.
1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xiii. 113 A *tobacco-coloured dress of coarse linen.
1670Lond. Gaz. No. 529/4 A *Tobacco-cutter, lately dwelling in Fryingpan Alley in Petticoat-lane without Bishopsgate-street. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Tobacco-cutter. 1. A machine for shaving tobacco-leaves into shreds for chewing or smoking... 2. A knife for cutting plug-tobacco into smaller pieces.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 845 [We] are most familiar with *tobacco disease among seafaring men.
1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner Ep. Ded. Aa j b, The Yorkers they will bee content with bald *Tabacodocks. [Cf.1599Chapman Humor. Day's Mirth E j b, Ber... Haue you a pipe of good Tabacco?.. Boy. Theres none in the house sir. Ve. Drie a docke leafe.]
1891Cent. Dict., *Tobacco dove. 1954Smiley & White Hurricane Road xi. 97 Blackbirds, tobacco doves, and a roseate tern fluttered about in bewilderment.
1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §101. 170 Have ready a *Tobacco-drier, & put upon it a spungy thin brown paper.
1616Sylvester Tobacco Battered 148 These beastly, base *Tobacco-Fellowes.
1852J. B. Jones Adventures Col. Vanderbomb 46 They rode by a large *tobacco field. 1981B. Healey Week of Scorpion vi. 112 They turned aside along a quieter lane between tobacco fields.
[1688Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XVII. 947 There be various Accidents and Distempers, whereunto Tobacco is liable, as the Worm, the Flie,..and the like.] 1807C. W. Janson Stranger in Amer. 339 The devastation produced by the *tobacco-fly which is of the beetle species, black and large enough to be seen committing its depredations. 1904E. Glasgow Deliverance 126 It was..mid-August—the time of the harvest moon and the dreaded tobacco fly. 1962Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiii. 594 The parent ‘tobacco flies’, or hawk moths,..lay the eggs of the hornworm.
1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. vi. 28 Libertie to be there in his *Tobacco-Fumes.
1634Wither Emblemes 5 In sleeping drinking and *tobacco-fuming.
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. III. 2583/1 *Tobacco-grater, a machine for grinding tobacco into small pieces suitable for smoking in pipes.
1824Deb. Congress U.S. 13 Apr. (1856) 2324 The effect of this measure on the cotton, rice, and *tobacco-growing States will be pernicious in the extreme.
1884H. M. Jones Hints Health Senses 144 A functionally affected heart,..resulting from Tobacco, and known as the ‘*Tobacco Heart’.
1611Rich Honest. Age (Percy Soc.) 42 For *Tobacco houses and Brothell houses, (I thanke God for it) I doe not vse to frequent them. 1676T. Glover in Phil. Trans. XI. 635 The greatest part..had their Tobacco-houses blown down and their Tobacco spoiled.
1960Encounter Feb. 31/1 Those [G.I.s] who live in the semi-luxury of on-base ‘*tobacco’ housing. 1965New Society 22 Apr. 5/3 ‘Tobacco housing’ constructed with sterling funds from sales of American tobacco in England.
1775J. Lovell Let. 26 June in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1875) XIII. 186, 1 *Tobacco Jar; 1 Large Lead.n d.o 1857T. B. Gunn N.Y. Boarding-Houses 26 Hair-brush and tobacco-jar jumbled among your shirt-collars. 1967M. Kenyon Whole Hog xxv. 252 A tobacco jar bounced..to the floor, where it exploded into fragments.
1833Marryat P. Simple xiv, There were spitting-pans placed..that they might not dirty the planks with the *tobacco-juice.
1598Marston Sco. Villanie (1599) 166 That neuer turn'd but browne *Tobacco leaues. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea xvi. 307 The Tobacco-Leaf here grows on a Plant about two Foot high. 1969Times 25 Feb. 12/5 A magnificent tobacco leaf dinner service of 96 pieces. 1976Times 27 July 14/5 A famille rose tobacco leaf part service, painted with a lady punting a lotus leaf of flowers.
1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner P iv, Whose stomach..Sucks vp *Tobacco like the vpmost ayr. 1864[see tobacco-root].
1844Stephens Bk. Farm III 875 A solution of corrosive sublimate, or a strong decoction of *tobacco-liquor.
1832J. Cleland Enumeration Inhabitants of Glasgow 258 When any of the most respectable master tradesmen of the city had occasion to speak to a *tobacco lord, he required to walk on the other side of the street till he was fortunate enough to meet his eye. 1975T. M. Devine (title) The tobacco lords.
1618N. Field Amends for Ladies iii. i. in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 127 Her fortune, o' my conscience, would be To marry some *tobacco-man. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 122 There was a Tobacco-Man, that wrapped Spanish Tobacco in a Paper of Verses.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded., By that time his *Tobacco merchant is made euen with.
1618J. Rolfe in Capt. Smith Virginia iv. 126 There are so many sofisticating *Tobaco-mungers in England.
1914Bull U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 40. 15, 15 healthy tobacco plants..were innoculated with *tobacco mosaic virus. 1947Ann. Rev. Microbiol. I. 87 Ordinary tobacco mosaic virus consists of submicroscopic, rod-shaped particles..composed chiefly of nucleoprotein and possessing a high degree of resistance to heat, desiccation and deleterious chemicals. 1970Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xviii. 93/2 Plant viruses, such as tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), are more easily studied than animal viruses.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Tobacco-paper. 1882Garden 21 Jan. 49/1 Fumigate with Tobacco paper on a calm day.
1775Amer. Husbandry I. 66 Those who have dealings with London..are the *tobacco and rice planters. 1838Southern Lit. Messenger IV. 197 A fine old specimen of the real Virginia tobacco planter, a half domesticated son of France.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 30 They carry two Hankerchiefs at their girdle,..their *Tobacco-pouch hangs also at it. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlv, He knocked the ashes out of his pipe,..returned the tobacco-pouch or spleuchan to its owner.
1672Phil. Trans. VII. 5021 Washing the Sore..and strewing *Tobacco-powder thereon.
1815Scott Guy M. xi. Is not the *tobacco-reek disagreeable to your honour?
1937Harper's Mag. Nov. 566/1 Nobody in his senses wants slums, *Tobacco Roads, and undernourished, ragged schoolchildren in a land of potential economic plenty. 1961Tobacco Road [see over-exploit v.].
1679M. Rusden Further Discov. Bees 108 Much like to a *Tobacco-roll standing upright.
1856Olmsted Slave States 361 All quiet housekeepers were kept in a state of excited alarm during the seasons when the *tobacco-rollers were in town.
1656in Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. (1902) 2/3 Uppon my returne into the Howse..I mett Major-General Desborough in the *tobacco roome.
1845J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. 135, I ate here, for the first time, the kooyah, or *tobacco root, (valeriana edulis). 1864Chamb. Encycl. VI. 109/2 Lewisia..rediviva... Its roots are gathered in great quantities by the Indians... It is called Tobacco Root because, when cooked, it has a tobacco-like smell. 1919E. L. Sturtevant Notes Edible Plants 589 Tobacco Root. Valerian. Ohio to Wisconsin and westward.
c1645in Archæologia LII. 137 Seriaunt Maior William Underwood a *Tobacco seller in Bucklersbury.
1605Chapman All Fooles i. i, Th'art known in Ordinaries, and *Tabacco-shops. 1974J. Aiken Midnight is Place v. 145, I have sold some [cigar] ends..to a man in a tobacco-shop.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. iv. 41 Quaffs a whole tunnel of *tobacco smoke.
1848tr. Hoffmeister's Trav. Ceylon, etc. iv. 174 Like our *tobacco-smokers lounging on their sofas.
1897Westm. Gaz. 12 May 2/1 He would look at their *tobacco-stained tongues.
1704Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 435 The officers of the customes burnt publickly in this citty 12 load of *tobacco stalks lately seized.
1616Sylvester Tobacco Battered 763 Awefull Justice will..at one blow cut-off this Over-Drinking, And ever Dropsie, of *Tobacco-stinking.
1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 454 By his proper Figure, that's like *Tobacco-stopper. a1701Cibber Love makes Man i. i, As inseparable Companions, as a Beau and a Snuff Box, or a Curate and a Tobacco-stopper. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxviii, He used the little finger..as a tobacco-stopper.
1936*Tobacco streak [see streak n.1 7]. 1968Times 3 Oct. 13/5 Tobacco streak virus, so called because of the symptoms it produces in tobacco plants, infects a wide variety of plants, including French beans, peas and clover.
1725Lond. Gaz. No. 6380/7 Elizabeth Sims,..*Tobacco stripper.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 240 Hee will needes be a man of warre, or a *Tobacco taker.
1666W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 55 *Tobacco-taking, Diemerbrook greatly commends; but how many thousand Tobacco-takers think you, dyed this year?
1930J. S. Huxley Bird-Watching & Bird Behaviour v. Plate VII, A Black-headed gull contentedly brooding a *tobacco-tin which has been substituted for its eggs. 1975M. Bradbury History Man ix. 153 Ashtrays have been stolen, and replaced by..tobacco tins.
1669Boyle Contn. New Exp. i. xl. (1682) 139 We fastened a small pair of *Tobacco-Tongs to the inside of the Receivers Brass Cover.
1840Picayune (New Orleans) 13 Sept. 3/1 The same Mac..[is] well known to the Western country *Tobacco Traders.
1808Cobbett's Weekly Pol. Reg. XIII. 134 Thread-spinners and *tobacco-twisters.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 152 *Tobacco vertigo and the other nervous consequences of the weed.
1808Nicholson's Jrnl. XIX. 298 (heading) On the Use of *Tobacco Water, in preserving Fruit Crops, by destroying Insects. 1851Birmingham & Midl. Gard. Mag. Dec. 236 Mix up flour of sulphur,..and tobacco-water,..and dress the trees with the mixture.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Tobacco-wheel, a machine by which leaves of tobacco are twisted into a cord.
1611[Tarlton] Jests (1628) C iij b, *Tobacco whiffes made them leaue him to pay all.
c1614Fletcher, etc. Wit at Sev. Weap. iv. i, Great *tobacco-whiffers.
[1688Tobacco worm: see tobacco fly above.] 1737J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N. Carolina 168 The *Tobacco-worm..has two sharp horns on its Head. 1773Hist. Brit. Dom. in N. Amer. xi. iii. 190 The tobacco-worm is a caterpillar of the size and figure of a silk-worm. 1872Rep. Vermont Board Agric. I. 319 The large night-flying moths..produce the large larvæ, as the potato-worm and the tobacco-worm. 1962Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiii. 594 The best known of tobacco insects..are the large green tobacco worms with white bars on the sides and a slender horn at the end of the body.
Hence (chiefly humorous nonce-wds.) † toˈbacchian (taˈbackian, tobaˈccæan), a. addicted to tobacco; n. a person addicted to tobacco; † toˈbaccical (tabackicall), toˈbaccoic |-əʊɪk| adjs., pertaining to, addicted to, or caused by tobacco; toˈbaccoed |-əʊd|, toˈbaccofied adjs., characterized by the use of tobacco; toˈbaccoite |-əʊaɪt|, an advocate of tobacco; toˈbaccoless a., without tobacco, not supplied with tobacco; toˈbaccophil(e [-phil], a lover of tobacco; toˈbaccose (-bacch-) a., addicted to, or characterized by addiction to, tobacco; toˈbaccoy |-əʊɪ| a., impregnated with or smelling of tobacco-smoke.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxiii. §2. 286 It is not so thought nor receiued of our *Tabackians. 1615Sir. E. Hoby Curry-Combe i. 25 Whom he describeth to be one of the Knights fellow tobaccæan Wrighters. 1637Venner Tobacco in Via Recta 359 Such..are no base Tobacchians: for this manner of taking the fume, they suppose to be generous.
1604Will W. Woodhall, Perceiving his *tabackicall humor.
1893Granta 2 Dec. 113 Luxurious and *tobaccoed ease.
1846Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo xv, A dreamy, hazy, lazy, *tobaccofied life.
1878Cope's Tobacco Plant Jan. 130/1 Three hundred years..have failed to develop any distinct *Tobaccoic disease.
1898Daily News 9 Sept. 5/1 Eventually the *tobaccoites completely routed their opponents.
1840R. G. Latham Norway I. 189 It is better to be without a whip than *tobaccoless. 1889Sat. Rev. 4 May 528/1 Left tobaccoless after dinner!
1882M. Howie in Knowledge I. 343 The smaller appetite of the inveterate *tobaccophile.
1845Ford Handbk. Spain I. ii. 194/2 Many *tobacchose epicures who smoke their regular dozen. Ibid. II. 731 Tobaccose.
1840J. T. J. Hewlett P. Priggins xx, Taken..out of the *tobaccoy atmosphere into the open air. |