Word Meanings - PIPESTEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.

Related words: (words related to PIPESTEM)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• TOBACCONING
  Smoking tobacco. "Tobacconing is but a smoky play." Sylvester.
• TOBACCONIST
  1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco. 2. A smoker of tobacco. Sylvester.
• HOLLOWLY
  Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.
• SMOKEHOUSE
  A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• HOLLOW-HORNED
  Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
• SMOKESTACK
  A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
• SMOKE BALL
  See PUFFBALL
• SMOKINESS
  The quality or state of being smoky.
• SMOKEJACK
  A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
• PIPESTEM
  The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.
• SMOKING
  from Smoke. Smoking bean , 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.
• SMOKY
  1. Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires. 2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog. "Unlustrous as the smoky light." Shak. 3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling
• HOLLOWNESS
  1. State of being hollow. Bacon. 2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.
• TOBACCO
  An American plant of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. Note: The name is extended to
• SMOKELESS
  Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.
• SMOKABLE
  Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.
• SMOKILY
  In a smoky manner.
• SMOKE-DRY
  To dry by or in smoke.
• BESMOKE
  1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
• LONDON SMOKE
  A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.