smoke

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1. smoke - Noun

2. smoke - Verb

3. Smoke - Proper noun

Meaning

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.

The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.

To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.

Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.

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.

To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.

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.

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And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. George Burns

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. Mark Twain

Where there is smoke there is fire. Portuguese Proverb

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. German Proverb

He that will have fire must bear with smoke. Dutch Proverb

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