2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense;
to perfume. ``Smoking the temple.'' --Chaucer.
3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him.
--Chapman.
He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. --Shak.
Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a
parcel of mummers. --Addison.
4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang]
5. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn
or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
6. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of
annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a
woodchuck out of his burrow.
Note: The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or
thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce
combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder,
forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on
solid bodies is soot.
2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak.
4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a
smoke. [Colloq.]
Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming
self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming,
smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.
{Smoke arch}, the smoke box of a locomotive.
{Smoke ball} (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition
which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.
{Smoke black}, lampblack. [Obs.]
{Smoke board}, a board suspended before a fireplace to
prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.
{Smoke box}, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc.,
from the furnace is collected before going out at the
chimney.
{Smoke sail} (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley
stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on
deck.
{Smoke tree} (Bot.), a shrub ({Rhus Cotinus}) in which the
flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed
into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of
smoke.
{To end in smoke}, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or
ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing.
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton.
2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke
agains. that man. --Deut. xxix.
20.
3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
--Dryden.
4. To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a
pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to
habitually use tobacco in this manner.
5. To suffer severely; to be punished.
Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak.