Word Meanings - PLUFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.

Related words: (words related to PLUFF)

• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• 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.
• 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.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• SMOKE BALL
  See PUFFBALL
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• SMOKEJACK
  A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
• SMOKELESS
  Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• THROW-CROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• THROWING STICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds
• SMOKE-DRY
  To dry by or in smoke.
• SMOKER
  1. One who dries or preserves by smoke. 2. One who smokes tobacco or the like. 3. A smoking car or compartment.
• SMOKE
  smook smoke, Dan. smög, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. smaugti to 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
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• BESMOKE
  1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• TWO-THROW
  Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.
• DOWNTHROW
  The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
• YTHROWE
  p. p. of Throw. Chaucer.
• OVERTHROW
  1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. that seeks