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