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Word Meanings - SMOKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • INDIANEER
    An Indiaman.
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • TOBACCONING
    Smoking tobacco. "Tobacconing is but a smoky play." Sylvester.
  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
  • TOBACCONIST
    1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco. 2. A smoker of tobacco. Sylvester.
  • SUBSTITUTED
    Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
  • RESERVOR
    One who reserves; a reserver.
  • RESERVATIVE
    Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • CARRIAGE
    carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
  • SMOKEHOUSE
    A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
  • SUBSTITUTE
    One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
  • RESERVATION
    1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
  • SMOKELESS POWDER
    A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
  • RESERVOIR
    A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir , a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. (more info) 1. A place where anything is
  • 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.
  • OFTEN
    Frequent; common; repeated. "Thine often infirmities." 1 Tim. v. 23. And weary thee with often welcomes. Beau. & Fl.
  • SMOKE BALL
    See PUFFBALL
  • RESERVATORY
    A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.
  • SMOKINESS
    The quality or state of being smoky.
  • EAST INDIAN
    Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
  • SHIP RAILWAY
    An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.
  • BESMOKE
    1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
  • RECARRIAGE
    Act of carrying back.
  • MISCARRIAGEABLE
    Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
  • WEST INDIAN
    A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
  • CASH RAILWAY
    A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.
  • GINNY-CARRIAGE
    A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
  • AERIAL RAILWAY
    ground and forming a way along which a trolley may travel, for conveying a load suspended from the trolley. An elevated cableway.

 

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