Word Meanings - SMEETH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.

BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
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.
SMOKE BALL
See PUFFBALL
SMOKEJACK
A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
BLACKENER
One who blackens.
SMOKELESS
Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.
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
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.