1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 709 Given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 24 Smoaking in the rooms was permitted.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 369 Nowhere was the smoking more constant than at Will's.

1889–90 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) vi. 140 Went home with him as far as Charing Cross in a 3rd smoking.

1922 M. Arlen ‘Piracy’ ii. ix. 127 He put on a dress~suit... It suited Argentines very well, le smoking. But Englishmen were made of sterner stuff.

1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 77 Cinched beyond reproach in the double-breasted smoking.

1960 R. St. John Foreign Correspondent viii. 142 I will make you a ‘smoking’ of fine English material for twenty thousand lei.

1977 T. Heald Just Desserts vii. 171 Guests wore tuxedos if they were American males and black dinner jackets if..European (..except for the odd Italian in tobacco brown ‘smoking’).

1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xxi He took from his pocket a particular smoaking apparatus.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxxiii. 220 A little cottage at Hampstead..had in its garden a smoking-box.

1841 J. Romilly Diary 9 Mar. in Cambridge Diary (1967) 211 Dined with Bayne: he..wore an embroidered smoking cap.

1872 C. S. Calverley Charades iii. ii Nor work smoking-caps for cousins.

1846 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 380/3 Smoking Cars—..we mean cars expressly provided for the lovers of the ‘weed’.

1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life II. 16 There are smoking-cars on every large railway train.

1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail xi. 233 The smoking-car is the favorite resort for the jolliest men on the train.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xix. 202 Horace..went forward into the smoking car. It was full too.

1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) vi. 59 She boarded the train and went directly to a smoking car.

1862 J. Simmons Railway Traveller's Handy Bk. 83 Some lines have certain smoking carriages provided.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant III. ii. 67 The..gentlemen were..ensconced in a smoking-carriage.

1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 138 He put on a smoking coat.

1888 Amer. Humorist (London) 5 May 7/1 Came over from New York..in the smoking compartment of a parlor car.

1878 H. Smart Play or Pay i Appearing in a radiant smoking-jacket that matched the cigar-case.

1889 Cent. Dict. Smoking-lamp.., a lamp hung up on board of a man-of-war during hours when smoking is permitted, for the men to light their pipes by.

1940 D. Potter Sailing Sulu Sea 28 Smoking was prohibited except when the smoking-lamp—a name now almost forgotten—was authorized to be lighted.

1952 J. V. Noel Naval Terms Dict. 304 Smoking-lamp, now an expression instead of a reality. If ‘lighted’, it means that smoking is permitted; if ‘out’, means smoking prohibited.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) iii. 45 He could relax like a tomcat, in an easy chair in the smoking lounge.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 6/2 Why should the teachers have a smoking lounge and not the students?

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 161 Meerschaum, Amber,..are principally used for smoking-pipes.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 885 In competition with the smoking-shops, there are now shops where injections are to be had at so much the syringeful.

1898 M. Beerbohm Let. 12 Jan. (1964) 127 I have a smoking-suit of purple silk, with dark red facings.

1958 Listener 21 Aug. 261/2 Did you know..that women wore smoking suits in the 'twenties?

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 57/2 The Smoking Temple in the Classic style, with niches and divans in colour.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 259 Snuff, chewing and smoaking tobacco.

1880 U.S. Census, Rep. Culture Tobacco 15 Other cigar and smoking tobacco.

1953 Life 21 Dec. 20/1 (caption) Smoking machine puffs on 60 cigarets in front of Dr. Evarts Graham, who, with his collaborator on the mouse cancer research, Dr. Ernest Wynder, perfected the robot.

1963 Times 22 Apr. 19/3 A ‘smoking machine’ is used to demonstrate the amount of chemicals inhaled, including those which cause cancer.

1971 Nature 26 Nov. 227/1 Lung explants..were..exposed in a Filtrona CSM12 smoking machine to puffs of fresh cigarette smoke.

1859 J. Hector Jrnl. 20 Mar. in J. Palliser Jrnls., Rep. & Observ. Explorations Brit. N. Amer. (1863) 65 in Parl. Papers XXXIX. 441 A gravelly soil supporting a poor growth of grass, but in some parts covered with a dense matting of the smoking weed.., the bright red berries of which afford food for large coveys of the prairie hens.

1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades i. v. 27 I'd seen what plant it was in flower-pots inside there... ‘It's smoking weed,’ I said.

1898 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Nov. 100/1 This smoking-party had been gathered together partly for business.

1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 206 Leave was possible; smoking-parties made themselves in the big huts.

1915 Jrnl. Home Econ. 7 538 For each case the addition of acid resulted in the lowering of the smoking point.

1931 Industr. & Engin. Chem. (Analyt. ed.) 15 Oct. 348/2 Take the temperature at which the first wisp of smoke is seen rising from the top of the flask as the smoking point.

1915 Jrnl. Home Econ. 7 535 The smoking temperature of a fat may be defined as the temperature at which the fat gives off visible fumes.

1945 ABC of Cookery (Min. of Food) xii. 46 A good frying fat is one that can be heated to a high temperature..before it smokes and burns, that is, it has a high smoking temperature.

1951 McMichael & Bailey in M. B. Jacobs Chem. & Technol. of 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.

1667 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 482 I have been troubled with smoking chimneys.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Reflect. Agric. xxi. 77 in Compl. Gard'ner A House with Smoaking Chimneys.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Smoak There are various Inventions for preventing and curing Smoaking Chimneys.