smoken.
/sməʊk/, U.S. /smoʊk/ 1. † b. elliptical. The fumes of incense. Also figurative. Obsolete.
a. The visible volatile product given off by burning or smouldering substances.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke
reekeOE
smeecheOE
smokec1000
smeekc1175
smeeksa1225
roke1292
smitchc1330
fume?a1400
reeking1401
fumee1481
fumierc1500
smook?a1513
suffumigation1567
suffumige1666
fog1728
α.
β. 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. M [He] was tied to a post and choaked with smoake.1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 224 Fill'd the Receiver with smoak.1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 47 Soot may be rather deemed the smoak itself.1810 S. Vince Elem. Astron. (ed. 3) xvii. 159 He compared them to smoak and clouds.c1000 Lambeth Ps. xvii. 9 Astah smoca on yrre his.
c1000 in Cockayne Narrat. (1861) 43 Ut æt his nosu eode micel smocca.
a1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1137 Me henged up bi the fet & smoked heom mid ful smoke.
a1200 St. Marher. 9 On his hehe hokede neose þreaste smeorðrinde smoke ut.
c1290 St. Brendan 491 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 233 Strong was þe stunch and þe smoke.
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4727 Þat es blode and fire and brethe of smoke.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 461/1 Smoke, reke, idem quod reke.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9512 The smoke of þe smert loghys..waivet in the welkyn.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. c In the smoke of the gunnes let vs entre the gate.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 133 It cannot be spoiled either by smoke, or too much heat.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 492 As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment, and the next expires.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 156 A large fire..filling the whole place with smoke.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. viii. 76 Don Diego, inhaling the fragrant weed..replied to the request of his petitioner by smoke.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. v. 39 The smoke was pouring out thick and black from the tall red chimney.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > incense
rechelseOE
storc1000
incensec1290
censea1382
guma1382
olibanuma1398
thus1398
frankincensea1400
frank14..
thurec1425
mascle thure?1440
olibanc1440
smoke1530
perfume1542
masculine frankincense1555
tacamahac1577
cayolac1588
masculine gum1604
candle1628
pastille1630
Spanish coal1631
incense-frank1633
thymiama1697
censery1823
punk1844
joss-stick1845
god-stick1874
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 327 Mercifull virgyn,..rodde of smoke, but swete smellynge.
a1627 J. Beaumont Epiphany in Bosworth-field (1629) 61 Who lift to God for vs the holy smoke Of feruent pray'rs.
c. The fact of smoke coming out into a room instead of passing up the chimney.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > emitting smoke > into room instead of chimney
smoke1715
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 69 We shall..shew of what service the..passage of Air behind the Back is, for hind'ring Smoke.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 72 When you wou'd prevent Smoke.
d. the smoke, a colloquial name for London. Cf. big smoke n.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London
city1556
start1753
Cockaigne1818
the smoke1864
big smoke1898
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > large city
Babylon1581
megalopolis1828
big city1836
the smoke1864
megacity1967
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 237 Country-people when going to the Metropolis say they are on their way to the Smoke.
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 270 The Smoke = any large city: spec. London: also The Great Smoke.
e. transferred. The pollen of the yew when scattered in a cloud.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts
sandarac1623
globulet1671
powder1672
bread1682
farina1721
pollen1723
father-dust1728
rough wax1744
yellow rain1755
dust1776
fovilla1793
anther dust1797
pollen mass1828
pollen tube1830
intextine1835
pollen grain1835
pollen granule1835
exine1839
exintine1839
intine1839
pollinium1849
sulphur shower1854
pollinic mass1857
pollen chamber1863
smoke1868
pollen sac1872
pollinarium1881
sulphur rain1882
pollinic chamber1885
perine1895
pollen content1926
sculpturing1943
monad1947
nexine1948
sexine1948
the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > cloud of > of pollen
smoke1868
1868 Lady Tennyson in Life Tennyson (1897) II. ii. 53 There has been a great deal of smoke in the yew-trees this year.
1869 Ld. Tennyson Holy Grail 15 A gustful April morn That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke.
f. A shade of grey.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > greyish brown
mouse-brown1792
suede1873
smoke1882
antelope1889
string1914
ash-brown1921
oatmeal1927
the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > smoky grey
smoke-grey1807
smoke1882
London smoke1883
1882 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 314/2 Charming colouring.., smoke, bright blues and drabs.
1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 13 (advt.) Wool hose..in..It. grey, shoe grey, smoke, mole.
1923 Daily Mail 13 June 1 Can also be had in Smoke, Celestial and Sable colours.
1971 Guardian 19 Jan. 9/3 Principal colours are navy, ‘Kasha’ (a Russian buckwheat porridge beige), and ‘smoke’.
1978 Hot Car June 981 (advt.) All Portholes are supplied domed either in clear, blue, green, smoke, bronze or black perspex.
2.
a. With a and in plural. A volume, cloud, or column of smoke. In U.S. and Australian use spec. one serving as a signal, sign of an encampment, etc. Also, a particular kind of smoke.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > a volume, cloud, etc., of
cloud1382
smoke1388
sop1513
fog1597
mushroom cloud1909
society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > smoke signals > [noun]
smoke1697
smoke-signal1873
smoke rocket1891
Indian sign1906
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
singular.
plural.1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 21585 A-mong the smokys blake, Ther he gan hys bed to make.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxi. 421 They can nat..put you out of your realme by their smokes.1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husbandry (1668) ii. xvii. 76 In seed time make great smoaks in your Corn-fields.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 252 We..leave them a sign to know where we are by making one or more great Smoaks.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 271 The enemy..were..incamped in the woods about us; for we could see their smokes.1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xli. 55 Their smokes were seen in various directions.1890 Argus (Melbourne) 26 July 4/4 By-and-by answers came from smokes away in the bush.1972 Combustion Sci. & Technol. VI. 55/1 Carbon smokes are generated by combustion.1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Rev. ix. 2 A smoke of the pit stiede vp.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 67 Þe feend, as a smoke, vanysched awey.
1594 R. Wilson Coblers Prophesie sig. G1v (stage direct.) From one part let a smoke arise.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 207 Being succeeded by a Smoak, which..resembles that of fired Gunpowder.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 209 I was afraid of making a Smoke about my Habitation.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 361 On being touched throwing up the seeds in form of a smoke.
1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales vii. 224 Mr. Bass discovered a smoke that they had made to draw his attention.
1919 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 41 312 The rate of disappearance of a finely divided smoke of a given concentration was greater than for a coarser smoke.
1950 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) X. 787/1 Determining the particle size of a smoke.
b. The smoke arising from a particular hearth or fireplace; hence, a hearth, fireplace, house. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > hearth or fire symbolic of
fireeOE
astre?a1500
hearthsteada1500
reek1542
reek house1542
hearth1585
smoke1605
home fire1611
fireside1613
ingle-side?a1750
foyer1908
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace
hearthOE
chimneya1330
easter1459
hearthsteada1500
smoke1605
fireplace1611
hearthing1612
focus1638
fire nook1683
firebox1825
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 111 Leading all his life at home in Peace, Alwayes in sight of his owne smoake.
1610 in Council Bk. Youghal Corp. (1878) 11 A scavenger..shall be paid yearly out of every smoak, 4d. at Michalmas and Easter.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) ii. 42 In Ireland wherein are..near 300 Thousand Smokes or Hearths.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 316 For 6 miles in a well inhabited extent,..there was not a smoke remaining.
1883 Good Words 24 717 There are [on Minglay] in all thirty houses, or ‘smokes’, as they are called.
c. †(a) North American = smudge n.2 2. Obsolete. (b) (See quot. 1961.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling mosquitoes > preparations or heaps for burning or producing smoke
smoke1689
smudge1842
smudge fire1846
coil1963
mosquito coil1963
1689 H. Kelsey Jrnl. 29 June (1929) 26 Abundance of Musketers & at night could not gett wood Enough for to make a smoke to Clear ym.
1765 R. Rogers Conc. Acct. N. Amer. 140 It is difficult to sleep without a smoak in your bed-chamber, to expell [mosquitoes].
1860 H. Y. Hind Assiniboine in Narr. Canad. Red River Exped. I. xiii. 286 At each camping place we were obliged to make ‘smokes’ to drive away these tormentors [sc. mosquitoes].
1961 Amateur Gardening 4 Nov. (Suppl.) 47/2 Many of the modern insecticides and fungicides are sold in the form of small containers which when ignited give off clouds of vapour carrying fine chemical into all parts of the green~house. These devices are known simply as ‘smokes’.
3.
a. Fume or vapour caused by the action of heat on moisture.
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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > water in the form of > steam
smoke1398
steamc1440
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxxiii Þat þe lunges mowe open and close þe hoote smoke of þe herte.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 218 Dronknesse makyth for-yetynge..by reyson that the grete smokkes gone vp to the brayn.
1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 9, in 2nd Pt. Herball They that woulde use the smooke or vaperouse ayer of this water.
1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes ii. i. sig. B4 Steedes..whose breathes dimmed the sunne with smoake.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. ii. 316 To purge the heart and braine from all ill smokes and vapors that offend them.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxvii. 311 Demanding payment for the Smoak of his Roast-meat.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xi. 136 You ought to have sense enough not to knock smoke out of fresh horses before we begin.
b. A mist, fog, or miasma (see later quots.).
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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > noxious vapour or gas
reekeOE
air?c1225
damp1480
mephitis1625
smoke1648
effluvium1656
fume1665
miasma1665
mephitic1802
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun]
misteOE
roke1292
vapourc1386
nyle1481
stove1513
fumec1550
rouka1586
misting1604
steam1612
dampa1616
petty-fog1641
smoke1648
brume1694
muga1728
ure1818
nebule1869
nebula1894
moist1903
M1904
clag1940
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Roock der aerden, a Smoake, a Mist, or Dampe, rising out of the earth.
1788 A. Falconbridge Acct. Slave Trade 51 Together with what they call the smokes (a noxious vapour, arising from the swamps about the latter end of autumn).
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 635 Smokes, dense exhalations, mixed with the finer particles of sand, on the Calabar shores and borders of the Great Zahara desert, which prevail in autumn.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 94 Those thick wool-like mists called smokes, which hang about the whole Bight from November till May.
4. In proverbial, figurative, or allusive uses:† c. out of the smoke into the fire, etc., out of a small danger into a great one. Obsolete. (Cf. Latin de fumo in flammam, Ammianus.)
a. In miscellaneous applications or phrases.
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1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 211 Whan every thing was fulli spoke, Of sorwe and queint was al the smoke.
1526 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 542 Of whom..I have lernyd many strange thinges, wherof I smelt a smoke at Calays.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 33 I Perceiue..where the leaste smoake is there to be the greatest fire.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4v His eyes looke as if they had bene hung In the smoake of his nose.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 20 I..took my leave, as perceiving him fuller of smoak than of meat.
17.. in Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. XII. 163/2 Never out of the smoke of your own chimney.
1774 Westm. Mag. 2 109 Their summum bonum lies in drinking themselves dead-drunk,..playing smoak with the girls.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 255 If a lent horse has been over-ridden, it is commonly remarked, ‘He played smoke with that horse, he has been good for nothing since’.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 228 The first lesson of literature, no less than of life, is the learning how to burn your own smoke.
b. In the proverbs there is no fire without smoke, and no smoke without fire, or variants of these: (see fire n. and int. Phrases 4g).
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c1450 MS Douce 52 lf. 20 Where no fyre is no smoke.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiv There is no fyre without some smoke.
1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 133 There is no fire but there will be some smoak.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 11 There is seldom anie smoak, but where there is some fire.
1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 143 No smoke without some fire, i.e. There is no strong rumour without some ground for it.
1705 W. Wycherley Let. 29 Mar. in Pope et al. Lett. Several Eminent Persons (1735) I. 14 You must allow there is no Smoak but there is some Fire.
1820 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. I. 118 They..then exclaim: There is no smoke without some fire.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas ii. xii. 188 ‘There is no smoke without fire,’ replied Rolleston, sagely.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] > out of a small danger into a great one
(to jump, leap, etc.) out of the frying pan into the fire1532
out of the smoke into the fire1547
out of the pan into the firea1599
1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes sig. fivv Leaste by fleynge the smoke, we fall into the fyre.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. ii. 25 Hee..went just as the old proverbe saith, out of the smoke into the light fire.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 277 Thus must I from the smoake into the smother. View more context for this quotation
d. Used to designate anything having no real value or substance, or a mere shadow of something.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > mere appearance or image of something
shadow?c1225
shade1297
phantomc1384
moonshine1468
fume1531
show1547
eggs in moonshine?1558
smoke1559
sign1597
ghost1613
umbra1635
parhelion1636
bogle1793
simulacrum1805
phantasmagoria1821
spectre1849
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Henry VI. f. lxxxiii Our kingdomes are but cares,..our power a smouldring smoke.
1601–3 S. Daniel Epist. to Countess Cumberland 35 The all-guiding Prouidence..mocks this smoake of wit.
1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum D 3 Their Pride is..A smoake, a bubble.
1651 tr. J. Pape Conc. Apothecaries Confecting Medicines in R. Record Urinal of Physick (new ed.) 243 That the selfe-conceited..may learne to..brag and vaunt forth their vanities and smokes.
1705 W. Wycherley Let. 29 Mar. in Pope et al. Lett. Several Eminent Persons (1735) I. 14 If Compliment be the Smoak only of Friendship.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. i. 10 Preferring the smoke of publick applause to the real advantages which my friendship prepared for him.
1806 Sporting Mag. 28 279 In his opinion it was all smoke.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 112 The ambitious man will think knowledge which is without honour all smoke and nonsense.
e. Denoting a clouding or obscuring medium or influence. spec. in Espionage, false information to distract opponents.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun] > making obscure > that which conceals or obscures
veilc1384
cloud1509
smoke1565
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > false information
smoke1966
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Fuligo To speake obscurely: to cast a darke smoke or miste before their eies.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 273 b Why shamed he not to blind the eyes of the people with such smoakes?
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 333 Their eies dimmed with some smoake of honours.
1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 202 The Eyes that..smoke of praise Doe dimme, are feeble-sighted.
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) iv. 157 Truth will not be discerned through the smoak of wrathfull expressions.
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 82 Smoke, humbug; any thing said to conceal the true sentiment of the talker; to cover the intent.]
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 86 Thro' the smoke, The blight of low desires.
1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God i. 22 Reading them..through the lurid smoke of sectarian hate.
1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive xxi. 200 ‘No go. I got myself cornered. One dead.’.. ‘Do you need any smoke out?’
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy iv. 91 For smoke..Molly chose a dozen other R's.
f. Denoting fraudulent dealing in the fulfilment of bargains or promises; esp. to sell smoke (after Latin fumum vendere), to act dishonestly, to swindle.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase]
to pull a finchc1386
to wipe a person's nosea1475
to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523
to play fast and loose1557
to play false1576
to joint a person's nose of?1577
to make a cousin of1580
to sell smoke1589
munge1660
to sell (a person) a packet1886
to beat the count1897
to sell (a person) a pup1901
to hand (someone) a lemon1906
to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H You get but a handfull of smoake to the bargaine.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 74 That for your selling smoake you may be courtiers.
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iv. 24 I abandoned their conversation, because I found they were but sellers of smoak.
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. To relieve the necessities of Nature..by selling of Smoke, as thou dost.
g. to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke, to come to nothing, be unrealized, be without result.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or come to nothing
forworthc1000
folda1250
quailc1450
fruster?a1513
to come to nothing1523
to give out?1523
to fall to the ground?1526
quealc1530
to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke1604
intercide1637
to fall to dirt1670
to go off1740
to fall through1770
to fall apart1833
collapse1838
to run into the sand (also, now less commonly, sands)1872
to blow up1934
to blow out1939
1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 184 Their subtill deuises are come to smoake.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 44 The ill successe of the Queenes affaires (whose..Royall Army they had seene vanish into smoke).
1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1720) I. 470 Thus ended in Smoke the whole Negotiation.
1704 Coll. Voy. & Trav. III. 699/2 His Designs vanished into Smoke.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 52 I take it for granted, this whole affair will end in smoke.
1853 Mrs. Carlyle in New Lett. & Mem. II. 68 One might let him scheme and talk, hoping it might all end in smoke.
h. like smoke, very quickly, rapidly.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > very swiftly
as swift (also quick, fleet) as thought?c1225
like lightning1567
(as) quick as lightning1580
like wildfire1699
like stour1787
(as) quick as a wink1825
like smoke1832
quick as a streak1839
like sixty1848
(as) quick as thought1871
at a great lick1898
like a bat out of hell1921
like the clappers1948
like a bomb1954
1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 306/1 Sail was made, and..she began to snore through it like smoke.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack vi. 26 Away we all went like smoke.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xi. 102 His brandy-balls go off like smoke.
1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough 86 The hounds are running like smoke!
i. to watch someone's smoke (slang, originally U.S.), to watch someone go, to observe someone's actions; chiefly imperative in watch my smoke.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > observe or watch > follow with eyes
to watch someone's smoke1905
1905 G. W. Peck Peck's Bad Boy with Circus ix. 114 The elephant..winked at the other elephants, as much as to say: ‘Watch my smoke.’
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 70 Watch my smoke.
1921 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean i. 10 Suspend judgement and watch my smoke. That's all I ask.
1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner iii. 82 ‘You are a curate, eh?’ ‘At present. But,’ said Augustine, tapping his companion on the chest, ‘just watch my smoke.’
1928 C. Sandburg Good Morning, Amer. 18 Let's go. Watch our smoke. Excuse our dust.
1947 P. G. Wodehouse Full Moon ii. 27 Look at Henry the Eighth... And Solomon. Once they started marrying, there was no holding them—you just sat back and watched their smoke.
j. in(to) smoke (slang, chiefly Australian), in(to) hiding.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adverb]
by covert1477
secretly1535
in coverc1540
hiddenly1580
tectly1587
in(to) smoke1924
1924 C. J. Dennis Rose of Spadgers 72 ‘Jist now,’ says Brannigan, ‘Spike Wegg's in smoke. Oh, jist concerns a cove 'e tried to croak.’
1938 P. J. Smith Con Man ix. 179 Denman advised Naysmith to remain ‘in smoke’—an expression meaning to hide himself—and play golf until Denman had stood his trial alone for the offence in Glasgow.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xvii. 203 The New Zealand delegate returned anonymously, slipped ashore and ‘went into smoke’ like some famous criminal.
1967 K. S. Prichard Subtle Flame 252 Meanwhile Tony's got to be kept in smoke?
k. to go up in smoke, to be consumed by fire; to be destroyed completely; also figurative, to lose one's temper.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry
wrethec900
wrothc975
abelghec1300
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
to peck moodc1330
gremec1460
to take firea1513
fumec1522
sourdc1540
spitec1560
to set up the heckle1601
fire1604
exasperate1659
to fire up1779
to flash up1822
to get one's dander up1831
to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837
rile1837
to go off the handle1839
to flare up1840
to set one's back up1845
to run hot1855
to wax up1859
to get one's rag out1862
blow1871
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to turn up rough1872
to get the needle1874
to blaze up1878
to get wet1898
spunk1898
to see red1901
to go crook1911
to get ignorant1913
to hit the ceiling1914
to hit the roof1921
to blow one's top1928
to lose one's rag1928
to lose one's haira1930
to go up in smoke1933
hackle1935
to have, get a cob on1937
to pop (also blow) one's cork1938
to go hostile1941
to go sparec1942
to do one's bun1944
to lose one's wool1944
to blow one's stack1947
to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950
rear1953
to get on ignorant1956
to go through the roof1958
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
to lose ita1969
to blow a gasket1975
to throw a wobbler1985
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > devour or consume (of fire, etc.) > be devoured or consumed (by fire, zeal, etc.)
to burn away?c1225
consumec1425
fire1565
smother1621
incinerate1800
to go up in smoke1933
1933 Punch 3 May 498/1 Civilisation Would probably go up in smoke If unsophisticated folk like you and me..Employed companionation.
1939 ‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife 94 Oh, glory no! He'd go up in smoke.
1946 R. A. Knox Epist. & Gospels 270 But Matthew makes it more plain than Luke that we are not merely dealing with what Schweitzer called an interimsethik, a scale of values only appropriate to a world which is shortly to go up in smoke.
1955 Times 23 June 11/4 The highbrows in those parts all go up in smoke or mist if you confess to liking those among their native artists who seem most typically Scottish.
5.
a.
(a) Tobacco. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun]
petun1568
tobacco1588
Indian herbc1600
weed1600
Indian weed1602
man-bane1614
smokec1616
fogusc1625
Indian drug1630
sot-weed1698
noxious weed1773
baccy1792
backer1823
bacca1824
tobaccy1835
nicotia1868
nicotina1876
snout1885
Magaliesberg1895
tickler1904
burn1964
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 2219 Every skull And skip-iacke now will have his pipe of smoke, And whiff it.
1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) sig. G3v A small Gallon of Sacke, and a Pipe of the best smoake.
1649 J. Taylor Wandering 19 They gave me smoake and drinke in Plimouth.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green vii. 56 That if Mr. Larkyns was no smoker himself, he at least kept a bountiful supply of ‘smoke’ for his friends.
(b) Opium.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > opium
poppyOE
opiec1385
opiuma1398
afion1542
meconium1601
mud1852
yen she1882
smoke1884
dope1886
hop1887
twang1898
weed1918
gow1922
yen1926
tar1935
gee1936
1884 R. Kipling Gate of Hundred Sorrows in Civil & Mil. Gaz. 26 Sept. 2/4 He was the handiest man at rolling black pills I have ever seen. Never seemed to be touched by smoke either; and what he took day and night, night and day, was a caution.
(c) Marijuana.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis
bhang1598
hashish1598
cannabis1765
ganja1800
Indian hemp1803
sabzi1804
cannabin1843
deiamba1851
charas1860
liamba1861
hemp1870
cannabis resin1871
marijuana1874
kef1878
locoweed1898
weed1917
Mary Ann1925
mootah1926
muggle1926
Mary Jane1928
Mary Warner1933
Mary and Johnny1935
Indian hay1936
mu1936
mezz1937
moocah1937
grass1938
jive1938
pot1938
mary1940
reefer1944
rope1944
smoke1946
hash1948
pod1952
gear1954
green1957
smoking weed1957
boo1959
Acapulco1965
doobie1967
Mary J1967
cheeba1971
Maui Wowie1971
4201974
Maui1977
pakalolo1977
spliff1977
draw1979
kush1979
resin1980
bud1982
swag1986
puff1989
chronic1992
schwag1993
hydro1995
1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding iii. 192 Made crazy one night by a marihuana cigarette, by something called smoke or snow.
1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xiii. 104 He mixed..with studs shying a toy of opium. But there isn't much record that he went for tea-sticks or the smoke himself.
1963 H. Parkhurst Undertow (1964) v. 84 To her ‘smoke’ and the ‘kicks’ were the things that seemed to count.
1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 76/2 He wondered aloud if there were ‘smoke’ in the house, prompting people in the front rows to toss lit joints upon the stage.
b. A cigar or cigarette; a marijuana cigarette. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette
whiff?1881
smoke1882
ciga1889
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis > cigarette
weed1917
stick1918
spliff1929
weed1929
reefer1931
joint1935
muggler1935
ju-ju1940
mezzroll1944
panatela1946
bomber1952
charge1957
bomb1960
number1963
doobie1967
smoke1967
cheeba1971
Thai stick1976
blunt1988
bifter1989
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. xiv. 305 The twopenny smoke, to which we cling, though it is made of medicated cabbage.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 158 She was,..as we used to say at college of certain unpopular people, a ‘bad smoke’.
1967 M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene in Great Brit. i. 5 In Britain, cannabis is..almost always smoked in the form of a cigarette which is referred to as a smoke, joint or reefer.
1980 ‘D. Kavanagh’ Duffy iii. 52 He'd known who handled smokes, who handled snort and who handled smack.
6. [ < smoke v.] A spell of smoking tobacco, etc. to have (or take) a smoke, to smoke a pipe, cigarette, or cigar.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > smoke [verb (intransitive)]
whiff1602
smoke1617
to blow (raise obs.) a cloud1699
drawa1774
smook1805
blow1808
to have (or take) a smoke1835
tobacconize1876
shoch1898
inhale1933
fag1940
to have a burn1941
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > a spell of smoking
tobacco bait1618
smoke1835
burn1941
1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 213 Mrs. B. [to Mrs. S.]. Well, let's light our pipes, and take a short smoke, and go to bed.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 286 A crowd of visiters awaited their appearance, all eager for a smoke and a talk.
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 II. iii. 53 Here..were to be seen a few soldiers,..lounging about, taking an early morning smoke.
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) May in Amer. Speech (1948) 23 247/2 A book-keeper for a large firm here begged an acquaintance for twenty-five cents to go and have a smoke with.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 241 It was considered reasonable to devote half an hour to rest..and a smoke for the stockmen.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 109 Ideal spot to have a quiet smoke and read the Church Times.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xi. 141 I..found my way into the hop joints. Curiosity was my only excuse for my first ‘smoke’.
1978 O. White Silent Reach xix. 206 Can't say I blame you. Have another smoke?
7.
a. Cape smoke, a cheap kind of brandy drunk in South Africa.
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1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 9 A young Hottentot,..as fond of ‘Cape Smoke’..as any of his tribe.
1880 P. Gillmore On Duty 366 He produced a bottle of smoke (Cape brandy).
1893 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 297 ‘Cape Smoke’ is the most poisonous of all alcoholic drinks.
b. Cheap whisky; a concoction based on raw alcohol, etc., used as a substitute for whisky. North American.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > inferior whisky
red-eye1819
tarantula-juice1861
bug juice1863
Berlin spirit1878
bluestone1880
smoke1904
snakebite1979
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings iii. 52 Brandy, anisada, Scotch ‘smoke’ and various wines.
1928 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 11/3 Twelve additional deaths today are attributed to week-end ‘jags’, which have been traced to ‘speak-easies’ in the New York east-end, where the liquor is known as ‘smoke’.
1932 Amer. Speech Dec. 87 Terms used for intoxicating liquor,..Smoke.
1940 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Nov. 8/2 Judge Eugene O'Dunne yesterday ruled that the sale of denatured alcohol diluted with water and known as ‘smoke’—comes within the effect of the liquor laws.
1950 A. Palmer Montreal Confidential 101 If the bum looks a bit plastered don't stop... Chances are he's a ‘rubby-dub’ and his mind is no doubt clouded with smoke.
1959 Washington Post 18 Aug. a3/4 It was the smoke that made Heaton a loner and junk peddler in the demolition jungles of the Southwest area.
1980 Amer. Speech 1977 52 117 Blends of anti-freeze and water, sometimes including methyl alcohol, solvent or paint remover, cleaning fluid, canned heat, or other alcohol mixtures: smoke.
8.
a. A Persian cat of a deep cinder-colour, with a white under-coat. Also, a short-haired cat with similar blue-grey or black colouring. Also in combinations, as smoke-breeder, smoke-fancier, etc.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of > Persian
Persian1776
Persian cat1821
smoke1893
smoke Persian1904
1893 Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. 4/3 Miss Brigden's cat should not be overlooked among the ‘smokes’.
1933 E. Buckworth-Herne-Soame Cats xviii. 99 A smoke is one of the most handsome cats living.
1958 Listener 28 Aug. 298/2 With two exceptions, the Chinchilla and smoke, short-hairs have the same variety of colour as do long-hairs.
1972 C. Ing & G. Pond Champion Cats of World 79/1 The first Smokes were bred by chance.
1972 C. Ing & G. Pond Champion Cats of World 99/2 Black and Blue Smoke. Except that the fur is short rather than long, the standard is the same as..the long-haired varieties.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 11 Nov. (Advts. Suppl.) 14/3 Pedigree long-haired male kittens, black and blue smokes.
b. An abusive and offensive term for a black person. U.S. slang.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]
AfriceOE
MoorOE
EthiopOE
blomana1225
Ethiopiana1325
blue mana1387
Moriana1387
black mana1398
blackamoor1525
black Morian1526
black boy1530
molen1538
Nigro1548
Nigrite1554
Negro1555
neger1568
nigger1577
blackfellow1598
Kaffir1607
black1614
thick-lipsa1616
Hubsheea1627
black African1633
blackface1704
sambo1704
Cuffee1713
Nigritian1738
fellow1753
Cuff1755
blacky1759
mungo1768
Quashie1774
darkie?1775
snowball1785
blue skin1788
Moriscan1794
sooterkin1821
nigc1832
tar-brush1835–40
Jim Crow1838
sooty1838
mokec1847
dinge1848
monkey1849
Siddi1849
dark1853
nigre1853
Negroid1860
kink1865
Sam1867
Rastus1882
schvartze1886
race man1896
possum1900
shine1908
jigaboo1909
smoke1913
golliwog1916
jazzbo1918
boogie1923
jig1924
melanoderm1924
spade1928
jit1931
Zulu1931
eight ball1932
Afro1942
nigra1944
spook1945
munt1948
Tom1956
boot1957
soul brother1957
nig-nog1959
member1962
pork chop1963
splib1964
blood1965
non-voter1966
moolinyan1967
Oreo1968
boogaloo1972
pongo1972
moolie1988
1913 J. T. Foote Blister Jones viii. 242 ‘Who you callin' a smoke?’ says Snowball, startin' fur Micky.
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan i. 21 He had bashed the living moses out of the smoke who pulled a razor on him over in Carter playground.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely iii. 24 There was five smokes carved Harlem sunsets on each other.
1970 L. Sanders Anderson Tapes xxxiii. 109 Five men. One's a smoke.
Compounds
C1.
a. Attributive, in the sense of ‘consisting of smoke’.
smoke-atmosphere n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 199 It will burn..its whole smoke-atmosphere too.
smoke-barrage n.
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1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 317 A Guards Battalion..came up..under cover of what looked like a smoke-barrage.
smoke-burst n.
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1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems ii. 417 Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, Thick breaks the red flame.
smoke-cloud n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iii. 30 From yonder White Haven rise his smoke-clouds.
smoke-column n.
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1932 E. Blunden Fall in, Ghosts 10 The youth scurried away to the problem of preventing that smoke-column from the cookers.
smoke-devil n.
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1919 J. Masefield Battle of Somme 5 The No Man's Land, into which our men advanced, was a strip of earth without life, made smoky, dusty, and dim by explosions which came out of the air upon it, and left black, curling, slowly fading, dust and smoke-devils behind them.
smoke-drift n.
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1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 739/1 Bars of light and shade belonging to the mist and smoke-drift of London.
smoke-dust n.
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1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 247 Smoke-dust the Chinese draftsman made eternal.
smoke-fog n.
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1933 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) xiv. 88 Smoke fog, fog due to particles of smoke in the atmosphere. A thick haze.
smoke-pall n.
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1918 G. Frankau Poet. Wks. xx. 153 Southward, gray skies with smoke-pall overcast.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. 159 He actually heard the cow's voice..from beyond the smokepall on the other hill.
smoke-palm n.
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1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 8 Nor did the smoke-palm of Vesuvius stand more erect and fair.
smoke-plume n.
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1920 Glasgow Herald 3 July 6 We may even be deprived of some of these interesting smoke-plumes that float proudly and unafraid over public works.
1978 Sci. Amer. May 162/1 There are two basic types of smoke plume: the momentum jet..and the buoyant plume.
smoke-puff n.
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1897 W. S. Churchill in Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 7/6 The mountain battery..came into action and began shelling the summits, from which the smoke-puffs were most frequent and continuous.
smoke-ring n.
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1890 R. S. Ball Star-land 335 We can make many experiments with smoke-rings.
1909 F. L. Barclay Rosary xxiv. 257 ‘And this pleases you?’ inquired the doctor, blowing smoke rings into the air.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xi. 220 A 14-year-old girl, Newbridge, Monmouthshire, writes: ‘If you see a smoke ring coming from an engine you can wish once, and if you see two smoke rings you can wish twice.’
1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 July w.1/5 The industry tries all sorts of promotions from a cigar smoke ring blowing contest at Palisades Amusement Park..to cigar and cognac tasting sessions.
smoke-tower n.
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1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. ix. 107 His stature, on the mighty plan Of smoke-tower o'er the burning pile.
smoke-trail n.
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1933 N.E.D. Suppl. at Sky sb.1 Sky-writing, the tracing of legible signs..by means of smoke-trails made by aircraft.
1979 ‘P. O'Connor’ Into Strong City xxxviii. 142 A puffer making its way up the Clyde. A smoke trail. The sea calm.
smoke-tube n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 424 The smoke-tubes of the stove.
smoke-vapour n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 12 Thou seest the Smoke-vapour.
smoke-whiff n.
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1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. ix. sig. H Belch impious blasphemies,..Snuffe vp smoak whiffs.
smoke-wreath n.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xxx. 218 The smoke-wreaths..That round her sable turrets flow.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 36 To-day a thicket of sunshine with blue smoke-wreaths.
1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle vi. 138 Through rolling smoke~wreaths, there, like ant-hills rise The kopjes in the nitre-breathing skies.
b. Used for, or promoting, the escape of smoke.
smoke-flue n.
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1840 Cottager's Man. 7 in Husb. III. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) Vertical strata of gravel..alternating with smoke-flues.
smoke-funnel n.
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1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 60 A Sort of a Funnel, like a Smoak-Funnel to an Oven.
smoke-hood n.
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1969 ‘M. Renault’ Fire from Heaven (1972) v. 199 King Archelaos had hung a smoke-hood over the hearth.
smoke-pipe n.
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1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 105 The smoke-pipe of a subsidiary fire.
smoke-vent n.
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1912 J. L. Myres Dawn of Hist. viii. 185 In Crete the climate is mild enough..for portable braziers to suffice, and this release from anxiety for smoke-vents encouraged the architects to daring experiments.
1936Smoke-vent [see Compounds 1c]. c. Due to, or caused by, smoke, as smoke-blackening adj., smoke-blackness n., smoke-burn n., smoke-mark n., smoke-nuisance n., smoke-smell n., etc.
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1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 386 Smoke nuisance in large towns.
1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xxxix. 56 Golden light and song..are better than smoke-blackness.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xiii. 136 Sniffing extraordinary smoke-smells which she discovered in all nooks and crannies of the rooms.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxi. 237 Holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled web-work of names..with which the rocky walls [of the cave] had been frescoed (in candle smoke)... They made a smoke-mark for future guidance.
1936 Discovery Feb. 55/2 The semi-conical apartment at the east end was evidently a fire-chamber, as traces of smoke-blackening were found on stones that had fallen from the roof and had once surrounded a smoke-vent.
1971 S. Hill Strange Meeting ii. 141 He had very pale, almost white eyelashes, and a curious mark, like a smoke burn, across his forehead.
d. With names of colours, as smoke-blue adj., smoke-brown adj., smoke-grey adj., etc. (used as nouns or adjectives). London smoke n.: see London n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > greyish blue
perse-blue1414
plunket1415
persec1425
grey-blue1741
iron blue?1758
smoke-blue1807
gunpowder1817
slaty-blue1854
Silurian1892
powder-blue-grey1952
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > greyish brown
mud-coloured1772
smoke-brown1807
mud colour1818
lead-brown1897
nutmeg1965
the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > smoky grey
smoke-grey1807
smoke1882
London smoke1883
1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. II. 98/1 Its colour is ash or smoak-grey.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 388 Their ordinary tint verges upon yellow, or smoke-yellow.
a1847 E. Cook Birds iii There the smoke-brown Sparrow sits.
1901 ‘C. Holland’ Mousmé 284 Overhung with smoke-blue mosquito curtains.
1903 F. Simpson Bk. Cat xiv. 185 Perfect smoke cats..should be black, shading to smoke grey.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ii. 131 Very elegant in smoke-grey Harris tweeds.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 June 9- d/3 (advt.) For sale 1976 Corvette... Red w/smoke gray interior.
e. Having the colour of smoke; of a brownish or bluish grey colour. smoke quartz adj., smoky quartz.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > smoky grey
smoky1555
smoked1827
smoke1872
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > smoky quartz
morion1748
smoky quartz1837
smoke quartz1872
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > crystalline quartzes > others
amethysta1300
citrine1571
morion1748
rose quartz1793
smoky quartz1837
citron1838
tea-stone1848
smoke quartz1872
Cupid's dart1910
1872 E. Hull Building & Ornamental Stones 175 Smoke quartz. This is a clouded variety [of rock crystal], with a brownish tint.
1884 Western Daily Press 11 Apr. 7/6 There are jackets of the finest cloth, geranium-red, electric-blue, smoke,..and brown.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 3/2 The smoke fox, a blue-grey colouring which is really dyed.
1903 F. Simpson Bk. Cat xiv. 185 Perfect smoke cats..should be black, shading to smoke grey.
C2.
a. Objective, with present participles, adjs., agent-nouns, or nouns of action, as smoke-belching adj., smoke-burner n., smoke-burning adj., smoke-chaser n., smoke-consumer n., smoke-consuming adj., smoke-consumption n., smoke-consumptive adj., smoke-control n., smoke-detecting adj., smoke-detection n., smoke-detector n., smoke-discharger n., smoke-generator n.Many of these have been in common use from c1840.
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(a)
(b)1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. D Of so many smoke-buyers, as are at this present in this kingdome, I neuer read nor heard.1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 168 The adaptation of the patent smoke-consumer to a locomotive engine.1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 344 The only effectual smoke-burner I have ever seen.1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 328/1 Smoke condenser.1891 Cent. Dict. Smoke-washer, a device for purifying smoke by washing as it passes through a chimney-flue.1933 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) xiii. 3 Smoke generator, a pyrotechnic device, placed on the ground, emitting smoke for indicating wind direction.1935 ‘L. Luard’ Conquering Seas xii. 153 Shot thirty-five miles east of Cape. Towed for three hours. Double bag. Fish hard and golden. Worked edge of Strunda four days. Good living. Shifted to avoid smoke-chasers.—Trial shoot in 45 fathoms. Nowt.1942 Sun (Baltimore) 14 May 4/2 Lookouts, smoke-chasers, firemen and organized stand-by crews to prevent, detect and fight forest fires.a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) 16 There were also two smoke dischargers to be operated by me. Stacked round the sides of the turret were the six-pounder shells.1957 Pract. Wireless 33 683/2 Such devices as..a smoke detector and fire indicator.1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio ix. 211 The smoke generators, manned by cheerful coloured troops, tried to blot out observation and protect the shipping from sneak raiders.1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. b16/5 (advt.) 117 West 58th St... Completely remodeled Prewar Bldg—featuring—..smoke detectors—ceramic tile kitch & bath.1979 P. Alexander Show me Hero xx. 210 Kemp threw a canister of tear~gas... Quinn threw a smoke-discharger.(c)1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 42/1 An incarnation (so to speak) of the principles of smoke-prevention.1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. p. xcix Apparatus for effecting Smoke-consumption.1882 (title) Official Report of the Smoke-Abatement Committee.1936 Discovery May 146/2 Other uses [of light-sensitive cells] were for..smoke detection in factory chimneys.1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 4 Densely populated areas designated for smoke-control.1967 Economist 30 Dec. 1277/1 The real trouble is still the old one: too few smoke control orders in the Black Areas.1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. G2v O let our smoake-exhalinge breaths enfold A mightie cloud of sighes.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. Illustr. 166 Those foggie mists of error and smoake-selling imposture.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 42 This..furnace operates not upon the smoke-preventive, but upon the smoke-consumptive principle.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 131 The..furnace is in reality a smoke-burning and not a smoke-preventing.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 131 Some new smoke-consuming theory.
1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere ii. 7 The soap-works with their smoke-vomiting chimneys were gone.
1962 Flight Internat. 81 190/2 The Pyrene Co Ltd have contributed smoke-detecting..equipment to the D.H.121 Trident.
1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 81 They were extremely refined,..smoke-belching, costly,..and slow.
1974 Time 7 Jan. 50/2 The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building.
b. Instrumental, with past participles.† smoke-starved adj. Obsolete† smoke-torn adj. Obsolete
smoke-begotten adj.
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1872 C. W. King Antique Gems & Rings 148 Smoke-begotten theories of modern German sciolists.
smoke-bemuffled adj.
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1912 W. de la Mare Listeners 81 Vainly 'gainst that thin wall The trumpets call, Or with loud hum The smoke-bemuffled drum.
smoke-blackened adj.
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1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xiv. 111 Puffing at his weed and staring up at the smoke-blackened ceiling.
1976 M. Machlin Pipeline lvi. 567 The small smoke-blackened figure walked slowly toward the forepeak of the Globtik Alamo.
smoke-bleared adj.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. vi. 270 A..dwarfish individual, of smoke-bleared aspect.
smoke-bound adj.
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1720 W. Stukeley in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 157 Their painted or rather smoak-bound hides.
smoke-defiled adj.
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1919 R. Kipling Years Between 42 Witness thy portrait, smoke-defiled.
smoke-dyed adj.
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1817 Jrnl. Salem Mechanic 19 Oct. in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1866) VIII. 234 I have not seen a handsome woman since I left Salem; they are here [i.e. in Pittsburgh] all smoke~dyed.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 284/2 Elms,..[with] smoke-dyed barks, the theme of jesting ruralists.
smoke-enrolled adj.
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1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. lxx The smoke enrolled Their oracles break forth.
smoke-filled adj.
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1920 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 14 June 1/2 Harry Daugherty..predicted that about 2.11 a.m., ‘in a smoke~filled room’, on a certain night during the republican national convention, the next nominee would be chosen.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai v. 77 These damp and smokefilled holes.
1979 Now! 21 Sept. 74/3 Presidential candidates are not selected by political pros in smoke-filled rooms these days.
smoke-grimed adj.
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1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1862) I. 463 Those streets..so black and smoke-grimed.
smoke-laden adj.
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1903 Work 21 Mar. 105/1 Incrustations due to the smoke-laden atmosphere.
1975 Economist 6 Sept. 20/1 If you've ever tried to make clearheaded decisions in a stuffy, smoke-laden conference room, you'll appreciate what we mean.
smoke-logged adj.
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1963 Times 25 May 8/4 A fire officer said: ‘When we arrived ammunition was exploding everywhere. Our job was made even more difficult because the building was completely smoke~logged.’
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. 16/2 Firemen had to wear breathing equipment to get into the smoke-logged electrical input room on the first floor.
smoke-palled adj.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 556 Two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.
smoke-pennoned adj.
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 93 The daily passage of so many smoke-pennoned steam-boats.
smoke-reddened adj.
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1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 97 To the smoke-reddened eyes of Loben.
smoke-scorched adj.
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1888 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1890) 81 Anger and pain and terror Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
smoke-smothered adj.
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1879 19th Cent. No. 31. 401 The swarming bustle of our smoke-smothered towns.
smoke-sodden adj.
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1959 C. Devlin Serm. & Devotional Writings G. M. Hopkins 5 In this smoke-sodden little town he [sc. Hopkins] came up against people who needed him desperately.
smoke-stained adj.
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1849 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Nov. 327/2 Smoke-stained walls.
1965 J. A. Michener Source (1966) 71 Along the smoke-stained walls hung spears and clubs, animal skins drying for later use and baskets containing grain.
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1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 72 Hanging me thus vp, to be smoke-starued ouer your chimnies.
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 429 There Fabrickes are..of smoke-torne straw..and Raine-dropping watles.
smoke-warmed adj.
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1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust ii. 193 Yon smoke-warmed garment.
c. With adjectives, as smoke-dim adj., smoke-foul adj., smoke-like adj., smoke-proof adj., smoke-tight adj.
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1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 98 We calked and pasted, and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke-tight.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 8 Skirted..with alder swamps and smoke-like maples.
1888 G. M. Hopkins Let. 1 May (1938) 145 I..dislike any town..for its bad and smokefoul air.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 7/2 One of the firemen donned a smoke-proof suit and helmet.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 71 You walk through the smoke-dim slums of Manchester.
C3. Special combinations:† smoke annihilator n. Obsolete any of various devices designed to eliminate (or redirect) excessive smoke generated by a fireplace, furnace, etc.ⓘ † smoke-hen n. Obsolete a hen accustomed to perch in the smoke.† smoke-merchant n. Obsolete a tobacconist.† smoke-money n. Obsolete money paid by householders as a due or tax (see quots. and cf. smoke-penny n.).† smoke-seller n. Obsolete (see 4f); also, a tobacconist.† smoke-silver n. Obsolete silver paid as smoke-money.
smoke alarm n. a device that automatically gives a warning of the presence of smoke.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > warning arousing the unwary > device for sounding alarm > of smoke
smoke alarm1936
1936 Discovery Nov. 359/2 A smoke alarm apparatus for the small industrial chimney is also provided.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xii. 17/9 (advt.) Full basement, low assoc. fee, central humidifier and smoke alarm.
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1850 Morning Post 7 Feb. Smoke annihilator—The patent iron foster fire, or Fuel Cage..is an effectual cure for smoky chimneys.
1915 Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Dec. 642/2 There will be many municipal improvements, including smoke annihilators, dust consumers, sterilizers of water, [etc.].
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smoke-arch n. U.S. the smoke-box of a locomotive (Webster, 1864).
smoke-bell n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp > parts of > shade for
smoke-bell1875
moon1883
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2223/2 Smoke-bell, a glass bell suspended over a gas-light, to intercept the smoke.
smoke-board n. (see quots.).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > board to stop smoke
smoke-board1850
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Smoke-board, a board hung in front of a fire~place, to keep the smoke from emerging into the apartment.
smoke-boat n. Nautical slang a steamship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine
steamboat1787
steamship1819
smoker1825
steamer1825
steam-vessel1825
smoke-boat1867
S.S.1868
puffer1901
1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life xii. 116 Capen and de missis go munyana in de big smoke boat.
1901 Rudder Jan. 9/2 The magnificent steam yacht Mayflower passed us close aboard. We had a fine contempt for any and all ‘smoke boats’, but the sweetness of her lines..compelled admiration.
1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 127 Smoke boat, the old sailing ship man's term of contempt for a steamer.
smoke-bomb n. a bomb which produces a smokescreen.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > smoke bomb or tear bomb
smoke-bomb1917
tear bomb1929
1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 308 Smoke bomb, a shell which, in exploding, emits a dense white smoke, hiding the operations of troops.
1931 V. Bruce Bluebird's Flight iii. 29 Throwing over a smoke bomb, I descended on a nice hard piece of ground.
1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xv. 205 A little smoke~bomb. I put it through a window... Then I went in through another window.
smoke bush n. = smoke plant n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]
buck's-horna1450
rhus?1541
sumac1548
Venice sumac1597
poisonwood1671
poison tree1676
swamp sumac1722
urushi1727
stag-horn1753
Venetian sumac1755
poison ash1757
ipoh1779
poison sumac1785
ailanthus tree1789
Japan varnish1789
vinegar-plant1797
mountain sumac1813
poison dogwood1814
upas1814
karee1815
fustet1821
taaibos1821
poison elder1822
varnish sumac1822
Japan lacquer1835
tree of heaven1845
anacard1847
smoke plant1856
tanners' sumac1858
swamp dogwood1859
smoke-tree1860
wax-tree1866
wig-sumac1867
wig-tree1867
burnwood1874
vinegar-tree1874
mountain manchineel1884
valley of death tree1888
sugar-bush1900
smoke bush1902
1902 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: R–Z 1529/1 Rhus..Cotinus, Linn. Smoke Bush. Venice Sumach..fl[ower]s purple, in ample loose panicles.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. iii Away to where the distant ‘smoke-bush’ blue was trailed along the horizon.
1940 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 8/4 In Christmas seasons when holly berries are comparatively scarce, the berries of the smoke bush come as a substitute, and often of the dogwood and of the partridge vines in the woodlands.
1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 29/4 The other sample is from the smoke bush.
smoke candle n. (see quot. 1962).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > smoke-making equipment
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > smoke signals > [noun]
smoke1697
smoke-signal1873
smoke rocket1891
Indian sign1906
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
1932 C. Gilson Wild Metal iii. i. 248 We had been provided with smoke-candles; and when we had cleared the Boche out of his trenches, the wind changed and the smoke masked our own fire.
1950 Times 13 May 4/5 The pilot started to descend in order to round the turning point at not more than 300 ft. for recognition purposes. The point was near a golf course..where white strips had been laid out and smoke candles were fired as the Meteor approached.
1962 Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) 282/1 Smoke candle, munition which produces smoke by vaporizing a smoke producing oil.
smoke canister n. a canister whose contents can be ignited to produce smoke.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > smoke-making equipment
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > smoke signals > [noun]
smoke1697
smoke-signal1873
smoke rocket1891
Indian sign1906
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog x. 135 The smoke-canisters were not of a recognized pattern..used by any NATO army.
1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World ix. 148 We had smoke canisters all ready, in case we heard a plane.
smoke concert n. New Zealand a concert at which smoking is allowed.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1888 J. D. Wickham Casual Ramblings 42 They had a smoke concert with a Salvation Army accompaniment till a clock was ‘ayont the twal’.
1935 A. Mulgan Pilgrim's Way in N.Z. xiv. 90 ‘A man should go on to the football field,’ declared a representative forward at a ‘smoke’ concert, ‘prepared to meet his God.’
smokefall n. [after nightfall n.] rare ‘the moment when the wind drops and smoke that had ascended descends’ (Dame Helen Gardner).
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
nighteOE
evengloamOE
eveningOE
gloamingc1000
darknessa1382
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
darkc1400
twilight1412
sky1515
twinlightc1532
day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
1936 T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton in Coll. Poems 188 But only in time can..The moment in the draughty church at smokefall Be remembered.
smoke-glass n. an eyepiece or spectacle of smoked glass.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses > to protect the eyes from light
smoke-glass1770
sunglasses1817
dark glasses1861
sunspecs1907
Polaroids1940
aviator1951
sunnies1954
shade1958
sunshades1963
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 334 These two observers looked directly at the Sun, having their instruments armed with smoke-glasses.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 373 A pair of light-tinted smoke glasses will afford great relief.
smoke goggles n. goggles that protect the eyes against smoke.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > protection worn on face > goggles
smoke goggles1962
1962 Flight Internat. 82 487/2 Stowage provision is made for smoke goggles at each duty station.
1976 B. Jackson Flameout iv. 59 Fumes and smoke..surged forward into the flight deck. The crew put on smoke goggles.
smoke grenade n. a grenade that emits a cloud of smoke on impact.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade > smoke grenade
stink-pot1669
stink-ball1753
smoke grenadea1944
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) 16 Stacked round the sides of the turret were..hand~grenades, smoke grenades and machine-gun ammunition.
1980 Globe & Laurel July 229/2 Twice during the night we were attacked by a small enemy force who ran through our position throwing Chinese crackers and smoke grenades.
smoke-head n. (a) the head of a column of smoke; (b) Nautical a funnel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel
chimney1815
funnel1834
smokestack1859
smoke-head1915
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > a volume, cloud, etc., of > head of a column of
smoke-head1915
1915 R. Kipling France at War 11 He pointed to the large deliberate smoke-heads.
1942 H. Bloomfield Sailing to Sun xvi. 164 There was smoke coming from the smoke-head of the Owl.
smoke helmet n. (a) a helmet used by firemen, enabling the wearer to see and breathe freely in the midst of smoke; also, a similar helmet used by others; (b) a form of respirator used for counteracting poison gas, etc., in the war of 1914–18.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > helmet > types of
hard hatc1400
smoke helmet1900
crash-helmet1918
skid-lid1958
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > protection worn on face > respirator
mouthpiece1790
nosebag1834
respirator1836
inhaler1864
smoke respirator1866
aerophore1876
open circuit1876
inspirator1898
muzzle1899
smoke helmet1900
gas helmet1910
gas mask1915
mask1915
oxygen mask1920
inhalator1929
closed circuit1953
1900 Daily Mail 24 Apr. 3/2 An officer of the brigade donned a smoke helmet.
1906 Royal Mag. Feb. 338/1 A safety smoke helmet.
1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 10 June in In Happy Memroy 171 We've got a wonderful new respirator issued, a ‘smoke helmet’ made of cloth..which is soaked in a solution.
1972 Police Rev. 17 Nov. 1491/2 Constables equipped and wearing diving or smoke helmets.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > at or of specific stage, condition, or habits
pulletc1400
brood-hen1526
smoke-hen1577
Shrovetide hen1598
shroving hen1611
poulard1733
clucker1779
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162v The cause that the olde people made choyse in their quitrentes of smoke Hennes, as of the best.
smoke-hound n. U.S. slang an alcoholic who drinks smoke (see sense 7b above).
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker > one addicted to specific drink
wino1915
smoke-hound1932
metho1933
pink-eye1945
rubby-dub1945
rubby1950
plonko1963
meths-drinker1968
1932 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Nov. 20/4 If a downpour has just started, the jungles are literally emptied into the stations... They come in by the dozen.., ancient smoke hounds and middle-aged rovers.
smoke joint n. [joint n.1 14.] U.S. slang a bar selling inferior liquor.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xii. 128 Mark my word, out of the muck hole that was a ‘smoke joint’ will rise a lily that will outdo the old-time saloon in all those old virtues.
smoke-loft n. a loft in which the smoking of bacon, etc., is done.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where food is preserved
powdering house1513
skeo1602
smoke-loft1657
salting-house?c1682
meat house1710
pickle-yard1722
fishing-rooma1728
salting-room1805
frigorifico1917
1657 H. Crouch Welsh Traveller 11 Unto the smoake-loft clim'd he than, and to the bacon crept.
smoke-mantle n. part of a furnace for roasting tin-ores.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > for roasting or calcining ores > for tin ore > part of
smoke-mantle1839
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1246 The smoke-mantle or chimney-hood, at the end of the furnace.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of tobacco
tobacco-merchant1599
smoke-merchanta1618
smoke-sellera1618
tobacco-man1618
tobacco-monger1624
tobacco-seller1643
tobacconist1657
tobacconer1701
a1618Smoke-merchant [see smoke-seller n.].
smoke-meter n. an instrument for measuring the density or the composition of smoke.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > instrument for measuring density of
smoke-meter1941
1941 Jrnl. Soc. Automotive Engineers 48 188/2 The smokemeter itself is our only means of measuring smoke density precisely.
1961 Guardian 24 Mar. 6/3 In..a letter.. regarding..the control of diesel exhaust smoke..Mr. Marples has indicated that further detailed investigation into the possibilities of using a smokemeter would be worth while.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax
focage1499
feuage1523
smoke-pence1584
smoke-penny1631
hearth money1662
smoke-money1662
chimney-money1664
smoke-silver1664
hearth tax1689
fumage1755
chimney-tax1855
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 86 Of all the accumulative excises, that of hearth-money or smoak-money seems the best.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Brighthelmston The vicar here..claims the old episcopal custom of a penny per head (commonly called Smoak-Money, or the Garden-Penny).
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 120/2 Smoke Money..under this name is collected every year at Battle in Sussex.
smoke night n. an evening meeting accompanied by smoking.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gathering accompanied by smoking
tabagie1819
smoke night1891
smoke-talk1893
smoker1899
1891 Melbourne Punch 2 June 378/3 The Mutual Store ‘Smoke night’ was held at the Vienna Cafe on Thursday evening.
smoke-pence n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax
focage1499
feuage1523
smoke-pence1584
smoke-penny1631
hearth money1662
smoke-money1662
chimney-money1664
smoke-silver1664
hearth tax1689
fumage1755
chimney-tax1855
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London i For here were smoke-pence, Peter-pence, and Paul-pence to be paid.
smoke-penny n. (see quots. and smoke-money).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax
focage1499
feuage1523
smoke-pence1584
smoke-penny1631
hearth money1662
smoke-money1662
chimney-money1664
smoke-silver1664
hearth tax1689
fumage1755
chimney-tax1855
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 176 Parsons, and Impropriators of Churches, at this day in many places of England, are payed this pennie vnder the name of a Smoke pennie.
1652 Answer Petition Poor Husbandmen 19 The Parishioners do commonly blow away all the tithes due for firewood with a smoak penny.
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 174/2 Smoke pennies are also yearly levied from most of the inhabitants of the New Forest.
smoke Persian n. a long-haired smoke-coloured cat (cf. sense 8).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds of > Persian
Persian1776
Persian cat1821
smoke1893
smoke Persian1904
1904 ‘Saki’ Reginald 3 You want one of her smoke Persian kittens.
1973 Country Life 25 Jan. 226/3 My smoke persian was an individualist like Mr. Fearon's cat.
smoke plant n. the Venetian sumac, Cotinus coggygria, which has a feathery inflorescence suggestive of smoke.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]
buck's-horna1450
rhus?1541
sumac1548
Venice sumac1597
poisonwood1671
poison tree1676
swamp sumac1722
urushi1727
stag-horn1753
Venetian sumac1755
poison ash1757
ipoh1779
poison sumac1785
ailanthus tree1789
Japan varnish1789
vinegar-plant1797
mountain sumac1813
poison dogwood1814
upas1814
karee1815
fustet1821
taaibos1821
poison elder1822
varnish sumac1822
Japan lacquer1835
tree of heaven1845
anacard1847
smoke plant1856
tanners' sumac1858
swamp dogwood1859
smoke-tree1860
wax-tree1866
wig-sumac1867
wig-tree1867
burnwood1874
vinegar-tree1874
mountain manchineel1884
valley of death tree1888
sugar-bush1900
smoke bush1902
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 76 Sumach... Leaves (simple in R. Cotinus, the Smoke-Plant of gardens).
1888 Garden 18 Aug. 159/1 The Venetian Sumach, Wig Tree, or Smoke Plant..is one of the most remarkable of late~flowering shrubs.
1948 N. Catchpole Flowering Shrubs & Small Trees 177 Smoke Plant or Burning Bush... The common names relate to the fine, feathery inflorescence.
smoke point n. (a) the lowest temperature at which an oil or fat gives off smoke; (b) the height of the tallest flame with which a particular sample of kerosene will burn.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs
freezing-point1748
boiling-point1773
absolute zero1798
firing point1807
melting temperature1827
ice point1832
dew-point1833
melting point1838
neutral temperature1854
fusing point or temperature1860
welding point1868
flashing-point1878
flashpoint1878
mp1880
ignition temperature1881
silver-point1882
fire point1884
ignition point1887
neutral point1892
smoking point1915
smoking temperature1915
pour point1922
smoke point1933
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > petroleum varieties > qualities of
pro-knock1927
smoke point1933
1933 Petroleum Handbk. x. 181 The smoke point only gives an indication of the burning quality of a kerosine immediately the lamp is lit.
1951 C. E. McMichael & A. E. Bailey in M. B. Jacobs Chem. & Technol. Food & Food Products II. xxv. 1150 If a fat is to be used for frying..its smoke point, or smoking temperature, is of some importance.
1958 Jrnl. Home Econ. 50 778/1 An emulsifier lowers the smoke point of the fat to which it is added.
1975 E. M. Goodger Hydrocarbon Fuels vii. 134 Two kerosine types of burner fuel are classified as C1 and C2, with minimum smoke-points of 35 and 25 mm, respectively.
smoke-pole n. slang a firearm.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]
handgun1411
piece1575
small arms1685
popper1751
shooting-iron1775
pelter1827
squib1839
shooter1840
shooting-stick1845
Betsy1856
smoke-wagon1891
rod1903
gat1904
belt gun1905
roscoe1914
smoke-stick1927
heat1928
heater1929
smoke-pole1929
John Roscoe1932
1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 11/1 Smoke pole, gun.
1970 N.Z. Listener 21 Sept. 14/5 A long time since he'd fired the old smoke-pole, anyway.
1980 Hunting Ann. 1981 55/1 This requires the hunter to decide in advance whether he wants to hunt with an antique or modern... There is no going out later using a scoped rifle after getting zilched with a smokepole.
smoke pot n. a tin containing substances that produce smoke or a similar opaque vapour.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > emitting smoke > tin of substances producing smoke
smudge pot1903
smoke pot1950
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 534/3 By taking one or two smoke pots into a poultry house and seeing where the smoke goes and what happens to it, improvements in ventilation are often suggested.
1965 ‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest x. 135 They all sit down near..their mosquito smoke-pots.
1978 J. Gardner Dancing Dodo xiii. 92 She would..begin her let down west of Brussels, and start up the smoke pots housed in the starboard nacelles.
smoke-proof n. an impression taken from a smoked type-punch, etc.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > proof from smoked type-punch
smoke-proof1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 699 The flame..blackens the letter, and thus enables an impression, called a smoke proof, to be stamped on paper.
1902 T. L. De Vinne Pract. Typogr.: Treat. Title-pages 79 Pleasing as a new ornament in this style might appear in the smoke-proof, it was sure to be a blotch in the print.
smoke respirator n. (see quots.).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > protection worn on face > respirator
mouthpiece1790
nosebag1834
respirator1836
inhaler1864
smoke respirator1866
aerophore1876
open circuit1876
inspirator1898
muzzle1899
smoke helmet1900
gas helmet1910
gas mask1915
mask1915
oxygen mask1920
inhalator1929
closed circuit1953
1866 C. F. T. Young Fires 44 About the year 1824 one John Roberts..invented a ‘smoke-respirator’ or hood, by means of which a fireman could enter a burning building or room.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 60/1 Tyndale's Smoke Respirators are to enable the wearer to enter into most dense and pungent smoke with perfect safety.
smoke rocket n. a rocket that emits smoke.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > smoke signals > [noun]
smoke1697
smoke-signal1873
smoke rocket1891
Indian sign1906
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
1891 A. Conan Doyle in Strand Mag. July 70/1 ‘It is nothing very formidable,’ he said, taking a long cigar-shaped roll from his pocket. ‘It is an ordinary plumber's smoke rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self~lighting.’
1954 Sun (Baltimore) 25 June (B ed.) 10/3 Proximity-fused bombs or photo flash bombs..high explosive rockets, ripple fired rockets, smoke rockets and guided missiles.
1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 265 Smoke Rocket.., a rocket which gives off a dense, lasting smoke which is directed into a drain under test.
smoke-sail n. (see quot. 1846).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set to prevent smoke from galley
smoke-sail1805
1805 Naval Chron. 13 379 90 yards of canvass were puchased to make her smoke-sail.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 288 Smoke-sail, a small sail put up for the purpose of preventing the smoke of the galley from going aft to the quarter-deck, when the ship is riding head-to-wind.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of tobacco
tobacco-merchant1599
smoke-merchanta1618
smoke-sellera1618
tobacco-man1618
tobacco-monger1624
tobacco-seller1643
tobacconist1657
tobacconer1701
a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 812 in Wks. (1880) II. 274 ‘Let the Smoak-seller suffocate with Smoak’: Which our Smoak-Merchants would no lesse befit.
1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 20 And when the miserable smoke-sellers die, how are they buried?
smoke shell n. Military a projectile that generates a dense cloud of smoke after it is fired.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > smoke or gas shell
smoke-ball1753
stink-ball1753
gas shell1915
tear-shell1916
smoke shell1919
1919 P. R. Worrall Smoke Tactics 27 Smoke shells may be used as a visible sign to Infantry and Tanks to mark the barrage.
1928 Daily Tel. 5 June 7/2 A smoke tank produced a very weak cloud by our standards, and the artillery have scarcely any smoke shell.
1937 Times 16 Apr. 8/6 The howitzers used smoke shells mixed with their high explosive to give a screen effect.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) I. 539/1 The 81-mm and 4·2-in. mortars, capable of lobbing high-explosive or smoke shells onto enemy positions, round out the category of infantry weapons.
smoke-shop n. now U.S. (a) a tobacconist's shop, †formerly one in which accommodation for smoking was provided; also, a place where people gather to smoke and talk; (b) a bar, esp. one selling inferior or cheap liquor.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > place for smoking
smoking-room1689
smoke-shop1798
smoke-room1883
smokery1901
smoking lounge1951
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling tobacco
tobacco-shop1605
smoke-shop1798
cigar-divan1847
tabac1918
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > tobacco house
tobacco-shop1605
tobacco house1611
smoke-shop1959
1798 Sporting Mag. 12 194 The chit-chat of a Birmingham smoke shop.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 31 Among..the artisans that croud the smoke-shops.
1937 C. Himes Nigger in Black on Black (1973) 125 Harold Price..was just leaving the house for his afternoon tonk session down at the smoke shop at 100th Street and Cedar.
1959 R. M. Dorson Amer. Folklore vii. 267 The enterprising folk~lorist need not journey into the back hills to scoop up tradition. He can set up his recording machine in the smokeshop or the union grill.
1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) i. 19 I walked down to the smoke shop. I picked up half a dozen fifty-cent cigars.
1977 New Yorker 27 June 31/1 Send out to the smoke shop for three cartons of straw-tipped Melachrinos.
smoke-signal n. a column of smoke used as a signal (cf. sense 2a); also transferred and figurative.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > smoke signals > [noun]
smoke1697
smoke-signal1873
smoke rocket1891
Indian sign1906
smoke candle1932
smoke canister1973
1873 S. W. Cozzens Marvellous Country iv. 65 After leaving the Organos Mountains we had noticed Indian smoke-signals.
1923 Beaver Dec. 108 Another smoke signal was seen curling upward away to the north.
1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft iv. 84 A very useful mode of attracting attention is by means of smoke signals.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 135 Smoke signals, n. Sometimes trains were taken on a logging railroad without authority. The men had to keep a sharp lookout for smoke from other trains in order to get onto a side track or to back up quickly: ‘We had to watch for smoke signals.’
1978 Times 20 Jan. 4/8 Mr Enoch Powell['s]..delphic remarks certainly got Mrs Thatcher asking herself what smoke signals he intended.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax
focage1499
feuage1523
smoke-pence1584
smoke-penny1631
hearth money1662
smoke-money1662
chimney-money1664
smoke-silver1664
hearth tax1689
fumage1755
chimney-tax1855
1664 H. Spelman Glossarium (at cited word) By the payment of Smoke Silver to the Sheriff yearlie.
1698 in House of Lords MSS (1905) III. 257 The duty commonly called Smoak Silver, Peter Pence or Common Fine.
smoke-stick n. slang = smoke-pole n. above.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]
handgun1411
piece1575
small arms1685
popper1751
shooting-iron1775
pelter1827
squib1839
shooter1840
shooting-stick1845
Betsy1856
smoke-wagon1891
rod1903
gat1904
belt gun1905
roscoe1914
smoke-stick1927
heat1928
heater1929
smoke-pole1929
John Roscoe1932
1927 Flynn's 22 Jan. 376/2 I ups and prods him and says, ‘Hand it over, er this smokestick'll do the talking.’
1940 in S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (1945) viii. 153 A rifle is a smoke-stick, a machine-gun is a death-adder.
smoke-talk n. U.S. a social meeting accompanied by smoking.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gathering accompanied by smoking
tabagie1819
smoke night1891
smoke-talk1893
smoker1899
1893 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 25 Mar. 2/2 The Association of Railroad and Steamboat Agents..held a smoke-talk..last evening.
smoke test n. a method of testing the state of drains and pipes by means of smoke.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > test of materials or equipment > other specific tests of materials or equipment
pressure test1859
tensile test1877
smoke test1886
torsion test1891
shock test1904
fatigue test1905
screen test1905
fatigue testing1908
shock-testing1917
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 716 The ‘smoke test’..consists of filling the house-drain, soil-pipes, and waste-pipes with a dense and pungent smoke.
smoke-tree n. = smoke plant n.; (also the American species Rhus cotinoides).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]
buck's-horna1450
rhus?1541
sumac1548
Venice sumac1597
poisonwood1671
poison tree1676
swamp sumac1722
urushi1727
stag-horn1753
Venetian sumac1755
poison ash1757
ipoh1779
poison sumac1785
ailanthus tree1789
Japan varnish1789
vinegar-plant1797
mountain sumac1813
poison dogwood1814
upas1814
karee1815
fustet1821
taaibos1821
poison elder1822
varnish sumac1822
Japan lacquer1835
tree of heaven1845
anacard1847
smoke plant1856
tanners' sumac1858
swamp dogwood1859
smoke-tree1860
wax-tree1866
wig-sumac1867
wig-tree1867
burnwood1874
vinegar-tree1874
mountain manchineel1884
valley of death tree1888
sugar-bush1900
smoke bush1902
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Smoke-tree.
1887 G. W. Cox Cycl. Common Things (ed. 6) 573 The Venetian Sumach of Southern Europe is the common smoke tree or fringe tree of the gardens.
smoke tunnel n. a wind tunnel into which smoke can be introduced to make the airflow visible.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > aerodynamics > wind tunnels
air tunnel1805
tunnel1911
wind tunnel1911
wind-channel1918
smoke tunnel1931
spinning tunnel1934
hotshot1957
1931 Flight 18 Dec. 1243/2 The type of smoke tunnel used by Mr. Farren for his demonstrations had cost approximately £65.
1964 P. Bradshaw Exper. Fluid Mech. vi. 151 Smoke tunnels are usually of open-circuit design to prevent the accumulation of smoke in the airstream.
1975 L. J. Clancy Aerodynamics xiii. 365 The principal requirement of a smoke tunnel is for uniform flow with low turbulence.
smoke-wagon n. U.S. slang a firearm.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]
handgun1411
piece1575
small arms1685
popper1751
shooting-iron1775
pelter1827
squib1839
shooter1840
shooting-stick1845
Betsy1856
smoke-wagon1891
rod1903
gat1904
belt gun1905
roscoe1914
smoke-stick1927
heat1928
heater1929
smoke-pole1929
John Roscoe1932
1891 J. Maitland Amer. Slang Dict. 251 Smoke-wagon (Am.), a revolver. The word is used by the negroes of the Chicago levee.
1926 J. Black You can't Win x. 132 I'll have her buy me a pair of ‘smoke wagons’.
1950 Western Folklore 9 138 Familiar epithets for the revolver were equalizer, shootin' iron,..smoke wagon.
smoke-wood n. (see quot. 1863).
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1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Smoke-wood, from children smoking its porous stalks, Clematis vitalba.
smoke-writing n. = skywriting n.
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1932 Flight 8 July 638 The committee recommend that smoke-writing should not be prohibited or controlled.
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smokeshow n. (a) (usually as two words) an activity or event that generates a large amount of smoke, often as part of an exhibition or display; (b) slang (chiefly North American) a sexually attractive person, esp. a woman (cf. hot adj. 12i).
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1969 Dubois County Daily Herald (Jasper, Indiana) 12 July 7/3 The daily schedule includes..special events in the evening as a Morse code hunt, smokeshow, watermelon hunt, and campfires.
1995 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator 25 July d1 The Flying Elvises..will be there, giving a pyrotechnic show at night and a smoke show during the day.
2007 Mirror (Fairfield Univ.) (Nexis) 12 Sept. It was like that time period in high school when girls started getting their braces off... The smokeshow little sister is about 16.
2014 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Apr. (Ontario ed.) l2 Seed..features legendary Canadian smokeshow Shannon Tweed in a guest role.
2021 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 19 Feb. 1 A stunning laser lights and smoke show..will help kick off the Adelaide Fringe tonight.
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smoke and mirrors n. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) (esp. in political contexts) a (frequently theatrical) deception or dissimulation; an obscuring or embellishment of the truth with misleading or irrelevant information. Cf. sense 4e.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun]
foxingc1220
feignc1320
faintise1340
simulation1340
dissimulingc1374
likenessc1384
dissimulationc1386
coverture1393
dissemblationc1425
assimulationa1450
dissemblec1480
fiction1483
dissemblinga1500
irony1502
dissimulance1508
dissembly?c1550
blindation1588
counterfeisance1590
misseeming1590
supposing1596
dissemblance1602
guise1662
dissimulating1794
make-believe1794
representation1805
sham-Abra(ha)m1828
make-belief1837
pretence1862
make-believing1867
postiche1876
kid-stakes1916
smoke and mirrors1980
1975 J. Breslin Notes from Impeachment Summer ii. 33 All political power is primarily an illusion... Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors... If somebody tells you how to look, there can be seen in the smoke great, magnificent shapes, castles and kingdoms, and maybe they can be yours.
1975 J. Breslin Notes from Impeachment Summer ii. 35 The ability to create the illusion of power, to use mirrors and blue smoke, is one found in unusual people.]
1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Apr. a6 ‘Most of this is just smoke and mirrors.’ The memos suggest that..[he] was orchestrating a campaign to help environmental organizations bring pressure on Congress.
1995 New Jersey Apr. 88/1 The grandstanding of Congress, claiming taxpayer money will no longer fund these types of caucuses, is in fact so much smoke and mirrors.
2003 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18–24 June 40/4 In retrospect, the Bush administration's most publicized war stories have all been the products of smoke and mirrors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
smokev.
/sməʊk/, U.S. /smoʊk/ I. To give forth smoke, and related uses.† 4. To smart, to suffer severely. Obsolete.In early use with allusion to actual burning; quot. 1773 partly belongs to sense 2.
1.
a. intransitive. To produce or give forth smoke.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (intransitive)] > emit smoke
smokec1000
smeekOE
reekOE
smookc1520
funk1684
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xv. 17 Þa sloh þær micel mist and ferde swilce an ofen eall smociende.
c1000 Lambeth Ps. ciii. 32 Se þe æthrinð muntas & hig smociað.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12842 Þa iseȝen heo..a muchel fur smokien [c1300 Otho smokie]. uppen ane hulle.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 233/490 Al þe se þare aboute barnde and smokede faste.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xv. 17 A furneis smokynge apperide, and a laumpe of fier.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 460/2 Smekyn, or smokyn, fumo, fumigo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 723/1 This woode smoketh to moche, it is nat drye ynoughe.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 261 The houses fired and smoking farre of.
1647 A. Cowley Discov. in Mistress The Gods may give their Altars o're; They'll smoak but seldom any more.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Baucis & Philemon in Fables 157 With Leaves and Barks she feeds her Infant-fire: It smoaks.
1743 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneid vii. 203 The torch smoaking with grim horrid light.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. x. 159 They perceived that she [the ship] grounded, smoked, and, finally, took fire.
1905 F. Young Sands of Pleasure ii. iii The cigarette smoked unheeded in her fingers.
b. In figurative uses or contexts.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxix. 20 His wrath and gelousy shall smoke ouer soch a man.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxixv Where hertes still burne & malice continually smoketh.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iii. i. sig. Fv These young gallants are caught without a net..no man gladder then I, for as long as that chimney smoketh, I..shall not go hungrie to bed.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 80 Glory is a perfume fit to smoake no where but before the Altar of vertue.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. 48 To cause his jealousie to smoak against those of his own heritage.
1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 196/1 Ireland was still smoking with the embers of rebellion.
c. Of a room, chimney, lamp, etc.: To be smoky, to emit smoke, as the result of imperfect draught or improper burning.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (intransitive)] > emit smoke > specifically of a chimney, lamp, etc.
reekOE
smoke1663
1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 Jan. (1971) IV. 14 The dining-room smokes unless I keep a good charcole fire.
1714 A. Pope Upon Duke of Marlborough's House in T. Hill et al. Orig. Poems 33 The Chimneys..never smoke in any Wind.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 31 Every little cranny may be stopp'd up close with~out fear of the Room smoaking.
1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 176 We found our huts smoked; there being no chimnies in them except in the officers' rooms.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. ix. 245 It is best sitting near the fire when the chimney smokes.
1906 H. Wales Mr. & Mrs. Villiers xxiii The lamp had been smoking in his room.
2.
a. To give off or send up vapour, dust, spray, etc.; esp. to steam.With quot. 1869 cf. smoke n. 1e.
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the world > matter > gas > [verb (intransitive)] > emit fumes or vapour
breathec1300
fume?1533
vapour1552
steam1614
vaporate1623
rokea1700
smoke1733
outgas1962
off-gas1979
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 226 As smylt mele vnder smal siue smokes for-þikke.
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.i Whan I haue beten her tyll she smoke.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 176 Theyr labour smokes and all of time [= thyme] doth smell, The Hony sweete that in theyr coames they lay.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 97 These often heated meats, which smoaked on the outside, yet were cold on the inside.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 104 The lab'ring Yoke And shining Shares, that make the Furrow smoak . View more context for this quotation
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 18 Two puddings smok'd upon the board.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 127 Which made his horse's flanks to smoke.
1802 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. II. 37 The water smokes continually.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ii. 57 It rained incessantly the whole night, and we..lay smoking and steaming.
1869 Ld. Tennyson Holy Grail 18 I have seen this yew-tree smoke, Spring after spring, for half a hundred years.
b. To rise, spread, or move, like smoke.In later quots. with suggestion of next sense.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (intransitive)] > like smoke
smokea1616
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > of flame or vapour > like smoke or flame
sufflame?1527
upspire1558
aspire1591
smokea1616
volume1824
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iv. 34 This night, whose blacke contagious breath Already smoakes about the..day-wearied Sunne. View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Thomson Spring 13 A yellow Mist, Far-smoaking o'er th'interminable Plain.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 238 See where it smokes along the sounding plain, Blown all aslant, a driving, dashing rain.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 106 Where the thin clouds smoke along the sky.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. i. 4 They [sc. clouds]..smoke in stormy trails across the snows of Higuerota.
c. To ride, drive, sail, etc., at a rapid pace or great speed. Const. along (preposition or adverb).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > at speed
smoke1697
highball1911
to hit it1911
barrel1930
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 427 Proud of his Steeds he smoaks along the Field.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 615 The coursers..held Their equal pace, and smoak'd along the field.
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 232 Then like a foaming Torrent, pouring down Precipitant, we smoke along the Vale.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate iii Smoking along in his travelling chaise-and-four.
1894 Times 6 Aug. 5/2 The Vigilant came smoking along in style past Ryde.
d. Australian slang. = slope v.2 1. Also const. off.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1893 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (at cited word) ‘Do not say we were here. Let us smoke.’ ‘Smoke’..is the slang for the ‘push’ to get away as fast as possible.
1961 P. White Riders in Chariot 415 Dubbo had gone all right. Had taken his tin box, it seemed, and smoked off.
3. figurative.† a. To fume, be angry. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)]
wrethec900
anbelgheOE
wratha1225
wrakea1300
grievec1350
angera1400
sweata1400
smoke1548
to put or set up the back1728
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to have, get a cob on1937
grrra1963
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxij The Duke..so fumed, and smoked at the matter.
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 34 Evyn so was she commaundyd to avoyde the Court..where at she smoked.
b. School slang. To blush.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [verb (intransitive)] > blush
redOE
rudOE
glowc1386
blushc1450
colour1616
paint1631
reddena1648
vermilion1699
mantle1707
flush1709
crimson1780
rouge1780
ruddy1845
smoke1862
mount1894
rose1922
1862 Farrar St. Winifred's iv ‘Why, you're smoking now,’ said Henderson, as Walter..began to blush a little.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > suffer anguish or torment [verb (intransitive)]
anguisha1400
smoke1548
wring1565
to eat one's (own) heart1590
to bleed inwardlya1616
sting1849
twinge1850
to be hard (sometimes heavily, badly) hit1854
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > be severe > suffer agony or torment
smoke1548
agonize1601
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiiijv For feare to bee called heretike, & then they would make hym smoke or beare a faggot.
1595 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 352 The farewell was he would make hym smoake for yt before he departed the towne.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper v. i. 57 Now I am resolv'd I will go see 'em, or some-body shall smoak for't.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 92 No such bad driving. The poor beasts have smoaked for it.
1818 A. Royall Let. 19 Feb. (1830) 104 It's as fair cheatin says I, as I ever seed in my life; and you can make him smoke for it.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxviii. 442 The residents will make him ‘smoke’ with high taxes on his land.
II. To expose to smoke, and related uses.† 7. To cause to smoke; to urge at a high speed. Obsolete. rare.
5. figurative.1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. v. sig. H3v It vanisht away like the smooke of Tobacco: but I was smookt soundly first. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 139 Ile smoake your skin-coat and I catch you right. View more context for this quotation1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions xii. 98 They formed themselves into separate bodies for Government, and were soundly smok'd for it in the high Commission.1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers II. 105 We shall smoke you before you get into Alabama.1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes (1843) 74 When we found it out, maybe John Brown didn't smoke him for it.1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles I. vii. 105 Watson thought to smoke him to the tune of two or three thousand dollars.
a. transitive. To expose (a person, place, etc.) to the smoke of some curative, purifying, or aromatic substance; to fumigate, esp. as a means of disinfecting.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > disinfect [verb (transitive)] > fumigate
smokec1000
smeekOE
besmokea1398
fumec1400
suffounge1490
perfume1538
fumifya1704
fumigate1781
stove1805
pastille1846
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (transitive)] > emit (smoke) > expose to smoke
smokec1000
c1000 Saxon Leechd. I. 116 Genim þu þas ylcan wyrte, & smoca hit [sc. the child] mid.
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 83 [Let him] after smoke him with ensens couenable to þe tyme.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 723/1 I wyll medyll me with no garmentes that were his tyll they be well smoked.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 72v They are..censed, smoked, perfumed, and worshypped.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. iii. 55 As I was smoaking a musty roome. View more context for this quotation
1665 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 32 I smoke your house twice a week.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. i. 1215 The ship was smoaked between decks with gunpowder.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) 398 Orchards, dung, dress, prune, or smoak them.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix The next day was Sunday, and a good day for smoking ship.
b. To expose or subject to smoke, so as to suffocate, stupefy, or make uncomfortable.It is doubtful whether quots. 1832, 1825 are based on real knowledge of the phrase they illustrate.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stupefy > with smoke
smokea1154
to funk out1830
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (transitive)] > emit (smoke) > suffocate with smoke
smokea1154
smothera1200
smore?a1513
a1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1137 Me henged up bi the fet & smoked heom mid ful smoke.
1617 R. Brathwait Smoaking Age in tr. ‘B. Multibibus’ Solemne Ioviall Disputation 87 That Alexander Severus would have smoaked such sellers of smoake.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 44 Others inverted..were so smoaked and suffocated to death.
1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) ii. xviii. 482 Tabaco kills Serpents..if you should smoke them with it.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 358. ⁋1 After which they have gone in a Body and smoaked a Cobler.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Smoke-the-Cobbler, a mischievous pastime among children.
1832 W. Scott Redgauntlet (new ed.) I. i. 6 Who taught me to smoke a cobbler?]
1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam vi. 202 They then smoke the bees until they are stupid.
c. To fill with, expose to, smoke, esp. so as to blacken, discolour, or render obscure. Also const. through (quot. 1846).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with smoke
smeech1611
smokea1616
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (transitive)] > emit (smoke) > fill with smoke
smokea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 399 Let's quit this ground, And smoake the Temple with our Sacrifices. View more context for this quotation
1631 A. Wilson Swisser ii. i With some quaint oath in 's mouth, smoaking his nostrills.
a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 64 Others..sat smoaking their Noses, and drinking Burnt-Brandy.
1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 9 The painted Face..smoak'd in Kitchens, or in Auctions sold.
1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 274 I now took two green glasses; but found that they did not intercept light enough. I therefore smoked one of them.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 730 The new piece is laid upon the original, the interstices of which are smoked through with a lamp.
1883 Cent. Mag. 25 849/1 I copy pictures and he smokes them and sells them as old masters.
d. To cure or preserve (bacon, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke; to smoke-dry.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > smoke
reekOE
smudge1599
fume1602
bloat1611
smoke-dry1704
cure1725
smoke1757
baconize1799
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 413 I have directed the provision..to be smoked, if there are conveniences for doing it.
1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 284 The herring..when salted and smoked.
1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 570 Smoking the bacon is much better than merely drying it.
1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 251 Having no other food, she killed the two horses, and smoked their flesh.
6. † a. With out or away: To convert into smoke. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (transitive)] > emit (smoke) > convert into smoke
smoke1382
vaporize1634
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Chron. ii. 4 To brennen encense beforn hym, and to swote thingis to ben out smokid.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 154 The three Grains of Incense..were strew'd upon a few Embers, and smoak'd away.
b. To drive out or away by means of smoke. Also figurative, esp. to force out into the open (a conspirator); to bring out publicly (originally U.S.).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > by fire or smoke
fire1530
smoke1593
smeek1691
burn1710
to funk out1830
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by smoke
smoke1593
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 79v In smoaking this..trade out of his starting-holes.
1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 115 The magistrate..that would speedily smoke away these gnats that swarm about the courts of justice.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 255 William..proposed, that they should..smoke them out.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. ii. 43 Till we smoke out of his earths the old fox Louis.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. iv. 57 He drew out a second cigar, with the..view..of ‘smoking her out’.
1914 Dial. Notes 4 164 Smoke one out, v. phr., to find and bring from concealment. ‘I'll try and smoke him out again.’
1948 Times 28 Feb. 5/7 Speculators were ‘smoked out’ by a Congressional inquiry.
1959 Listener 25 June 1105/2 We were using a food guide, compiled by some daring spy who was determined to smoke out tasty food if it cost him his citizenship.
1977 G. V. Higgins Dreamland viii. 83 I had done it to smoke them out, and had succeeded.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a horse-drawn vehicle > at a high speed
smokea1658
whigc1667
spank1811
a1658 J. Cleveland May Day ii Whiles Phœbus..Smoaks his bright Teem along on the Grand Paw.
8.
a. To get an inkling of, to smell or suspect (a plot, design, etc.). Now archaic (in common use c1600–1850).
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect
seec1300
perceivec1330
deprehend1523
read1561
wind1583
savour1602
subodorate1606
smoke1608
detect1756
to find out1883
1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron in Wks. (1873) II. 201 Least so he might haue smokt our practises.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all i. 9 Sir John, I fear, smoaks your design.
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. i. viii. 17 Let me tell you,..I begin to smoke a Plot. I begin to apprehend no Opposition, and then we're sold, Neighbour.
1773 C. Dibdin Deserter ii. ii. 21 Oh, ho, I smoke this business; comrade, I'm off, I'm off.
1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. Feb. 151 An honest 'Squire, who smok'd the trick, Appear'd well-arm'd with oaken stick.
1840 R. H. Barham ‘Monstre’ Balloon in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 295 Such a trumpery tale every one of us smokes.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. v. 53 The man, not..smoking the plot, waxed exceeding wroth.
b. absol. To have an inkling or idea; to understand. Now archaic.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (intransitive)]
seeOE
understandc1000
knowlOE
tellc1390
conceive1563
smoke1676
overstand1699
view1711
savvy1785
dig1789
twig1832
capisce1904
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii. 51 Peace, they smoak.
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia iv. i. 66 I am sharp, sharp as a Needle, I can Smoak now, as soon as another.
1757 S. Foote Author ii. 38 Oh, now I begin to understand..; ecod, I begin to smoke.
1842 R. H. Barham St. Medard in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 284 St. Medard paused,—he began to ‘smoke’.
9. To make fun of, to jest at; to ridicule, banter, or quiz (a person). Now archaic.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)]
tauntc1530
railly1668
rally1672
banter1677
smoke1699
to get, take, or have a rise out of1703
joke1748
to run a rig1764
badinage1778
queer1778
quiz1787
to poke (one's) fun (at)1795
gammon1801
chaff1826
to run on ——1830
rig1841
trail1847
josh1852
jolly1874
chip1898
barrack1901
horse1901
jazz1927
to take the mike out ofa1935
to take the piss (out of)1945
to take the mickey (out of)1948
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Smoke him, Smoke him again, to affront a Stranger at his coming in.
1755 Connoisseur No. 54. ⁋4 The Bucks..sat in another box, to smoke their rusty wigs and brown cassocks.
1772 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 201 He..suffered us to laugh at his affectation.., even joining in our mirth, & seeming happy to be smoaked.
1818 J. Keats Lett. (1895) 245 We hated her and smoked her and baited her and I think drove her away.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxxix Our young men were accustomed to smoke her, as the phrase then was.
10. To observe, take note of, ‘twig’. Now archaic.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)]
markc1175
note?c1225
heedc1275
apperceivec1300
spyc1380
notec1390
notac1392
registera1393
considerc1400
notifya1425
animadvert?a1475
mind1490
adnote1558
observe1560
quote1560
remark1581
to take note1600
apprehenda1634
to take cognizance of1635
animadverse1642
notice1660
to pass in review1697
smoke1716
cognize1821
spot1848
looky1900
1716 J. Addison Drummer iii. 27 Thou'rt very smart, my Dear. But, see! smoak the Doctor.
1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 39 Smoke the justice, he is as fast as a church.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 105 Kit, smoke his eyes, how they glare.
1856 ‘T. Gwynne’ Young Singleton viii ‘Smoke the big-wig Lund!’ whispered Fotheringay.
III. Senses relating to tobacco.
11. intransitive. To inhale (and expel again) the fumes of tobacco, or other suitable substance, from a pipe, cigar, or cigarette. More recently, also with reference to marijuana, opium, or other illegal drugs. †Also with it.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > smoke [verb (intransitive)]
whiff1602
smoke1617
to blow (raise obs.) a cloud1699
drawa1774
smook1805
blow1808
to have (or take) a smoke1835
tobacconize1876
shoch1898
inhale1933
fag1940
to have a burn1941
1617 R. Brathwait Smoaking Age in tr. ‘B. Multibibus’ Solemne Ioviall Disputation 174 The sleeping Dor~mouse..sleepes but all Winter, but this Man i' th' Mist smoakes it all the yeare long: hee proportions his nose [etc.].
1687 M. Prior & Earl of Halifax Hind & Panther Transvers'd 17 Your Pipe's so foul, that I disdain to smoak.
1721 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 208 Even children were oblig'd to smoak.
1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal xvii I declined the favour, but the others smoaked about.
1827 T. Carlyle Musæus in German Romance I. 7 Smoking vehemently on his black stump of a pipe.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. xi. 197 Mr. Addison was..smoking out of his long pipe, and smiling very placidly.
1895 J. Conrad Almayer's Folly xii. 267 ‘And they both smoke,’ added Ali. ‘Phew! Opium, you mean?’ Ali nodded.
1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam v. 171 He was..never better pleased than when smoking away at a long Shan pipe.
1957 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Jan. 11/2 Asked how he took dope, Harrod replied that he ‘smoked, snorted and skin-popped’.
1972 Guardian 29 Jan. 9/2 Mr Williams had three previous convictions for possession of cannabis... ‘I've said I smoke sometimes.’
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xvi. 381 For a large divan secrecy was vital... The safest place to smoke would undoubtedly be upstairs.
12.
a. transitive. To use (tobacco, etc.) as material for smoking. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)]
whiffle1683
smoke1687
funk1703
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 259 Some..have in the mean while smoaked Tobacco, when it was given them.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 7 Capt. Fullers party being troubled with the..lust after Tobacco, must needs strike fire to Smoke it.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 85 They also smoke tobacco to excess.
1811 tr. Niebuhr's Trav. Arabia cxx, in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. X. 153 As they have no strong drink, they, for this purpose, smoke Haschisch, which is the dried leaves of a sort of hemp.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Odille in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 256 So put that in your pipe..and smoke it!
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent (1889) xviii. 324 The bandits' custom of smoking banghi (wild hemp).
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 54 Bejees, Jimmy's started them off smoking the same hop.
1951 Life 25 June 21/1 I heard and saw guys who skin pop,..smoke pot, banging and shoot up the main vein in your arm and leg.
1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 98/2 We smoked, sure. At one time, everybody in the platoon had smoked pot except the lieutenant.
b. To use (a pipe, cigar, etc.) in the act of smoking; to take (so many whiffs).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > use in the act of smoking
drone1600
to take the whiff1600
whiffc1616
puff1664
smoke1707
fuff1786
blow1808
burn1929
chuff1940
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 3 He..smoaks his Pipe Eight and forty Hours together sometimes.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. vi. 22 My uncle Toby..lighted his pipe, and smoak'd about a dozen whiffs.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 338 I found him..smoking his pipe in the..evening sunshine.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xl. 444 Send down word that he's to spend the change in cigars... I'll smoke 'em.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 179 I never saw a woman smoke a cigarette till I came to London.
c. With out (= to the end, completely).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > smoke to the end
smoke1705
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > from concealment
smoke1705
unhover1827
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xvi. 306 Which Pipe thus filled they without ceasing can easily smoak out.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. iii. 48 See, I have smoked out your cigar.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. vii. 216 She smoked one [cigarette] out right seldom.
13. To wear out, waste (away), bring into a certain state, etc., by smoking tobacco or some similar substance. Also, to ‘rag’ by smoking (U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > wear out or waste away by smoking
smoke1604
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] > by smoking
smoke1850
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C2 If a man smoke himselfe to death with it (and many haue done).
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 2242 He..H'as smokd out all his living at his nose.
1617 R. Brathwait Smoaking Age in tr. ‘B. Multibibus’ Solemne Ioviall Disputation 195 Sweet Youth, Smoake not thy time; Too precious to abuse.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 294/2 He who smoaks away the chief of his time.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. xiii I gradually..smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with [him].
1844 N. Brit. Rev. 2 81 Newton smoked himself into a state of absolute etiolation.
1850 in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1851) 285 I would not have you sacrifice all these advantages for the sake of smoking future Freshmen.
1880 Harper's Mag. Nov. 950/1 They hazed and smoked Freshmen.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 131 To go to their rooms..and smoke them sick or into retreating.
14. intransitive. Of a pipe: To draw.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > smoke [verb (intransitive)] > draw (of a pipe)
draw1725
smoke1883
1883 Harper's Mag. July 174/2 These ‘church-wardens’ smoke freely and softly.
15. transitive. To furnish with tobacco. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > provide with tobacco
smoke1897
1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator xi. 129 He will..feed you and slake you and smoke you with the best that money can buy.
IV. Senses relating to shooting with a firearm.
16. To shoot (a person) with a firearm. U.S. slang.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by shooting
shootc893
shootc1275
to blow away1523
carry1653
to shoot (a person) down1845
stop1845
blow1871
ventilate1875
Maxim1894
poop1917
to blow apart1920
smoke1926
clip1927
cowboy1941
zap1942
Sten-gun1949
to light up1967
slot1987
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing)
shoot1617
to bird off1688
to knock downa1744
to pick off1745
pop1762
drill1808
plug1833
perforate1838
slap1842
stop1845
pot1860
spot1882
plunk1888
pip1900
souvenir1915
poop1917
spray1922
smoke1926
zap1942
crack1943
pot-shoot1969
1926 J. Black You can't Win xi. 144 Git inside an' stay there or I'll smoke both of youse off.
1942 Detective Fiction May 53/1 You chiseling rat. You didn't figure Tommy and those heels could hold me, did you? I smoked them just like I'm gonna smoke you, Bugs.
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b. To cause (a tyre) to smoulder as a result of friction with the road surface, when accelerating or driving fast around corners, etc. colloquial.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (transitive)] > of tyres
squeal1965
smoke1977
1977 Chicago Tribune 21 Nov. vi. 8/8 He moved out to try and over-take Bonnett on the outside, smoking his tyres badly as he fought for traction.
1985 Sports Illustr. 9 Sept. 14/3 [He] charged into the lead in his dark green Monte Carlo, driving so hard he was smoking his tires in the turns.
1988 Autosport 29 Sept. 71/1 Boswell behind him was putting everything into the chase, smoking the inside rear tyre every time he came onto the pit straight out of Goddard Corner.
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intransitive. slang (originally North American). With up. To smoke marijuana.
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1975 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 15 Nov. 1/4 Once in a while somebody would come up with a bag and we'd smoke up.
1984 A. Thomas Intertidal Life (1986) i. 40 He and Alice had been smoking up.
1997 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 11 Dec. a1 The ruling doesn't mean people with illnesses can now freely smoke up.
2003 I. Edwards-Jones Wendy House ix. 255 We all got drunk and smoked up a bit.
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