SMOKING

smoking

(adjective) emitting smoke in great volume; “a smoking fireplace”

smoke, smoking

(noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; “he went outside for a smoke”; “smoking stinks”

smoke, smoking

(noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; “the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

smoking

present participle of smoke

Adjective

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)

Giving off smoke.

(slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

(slang) Showing great skill or talent.

Etymology 2

Noun

smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)

The act or process of emitting smoke.

The burning and inhalation of tobacco.

(by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.

The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke

(slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

Source: Wiktionary

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Smok"ing, a. & n.

Definition: from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars.

– Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.

SMOKE

Smoke, n. Etym: [AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smög, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. smaugti to choke.]

1. 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.

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.

Syn.

– Fume; reek; vapor.

Smoke, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked; p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] Etym: [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.

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.

Smoke, v. t.

1. 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.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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