Definition of Smoke

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Definition of Smoke

Smoke

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 raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

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 suffer severely; to be punished.

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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Smoke Quotations

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

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

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Mark Twain

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho Marx

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Bob Marley

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
Bob Marley

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

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.
Bill Maher

Smoke Translations

smoke in Afrikaans is rook
smoke in Dutch is smoken, roken
smoke in Finnish is savuta
smoke in German is Rauch, Rauchen, Rauch
smoke in Italian is fumo, fumare
smoke in Portuguese is fumo
smoke in Spanish is fumar, humo

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