4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
[Colloq.]
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.
Syn. -- Fume; reek; vapor.
Smoke, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked (?); p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] [AS.
smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. smöge. See Smoke, n.]
1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or
exhalation; to reek.
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
Milton.