smock 
oh ill starr'd wench ! 
Pale as thy smack! Shak., Othello, v. 2. 273. 
Many of their women and children goe onely in their 
smocks and shirts. Coryat, Crudities, I. 103. 
Thy smock of silke, both faire and white. 
Grmufleeves (Child's Ballads, TV. 241). 
2. A smock-frock. 
Ahappypeople,thatliveaccordingto nature, . . . their 
apparel] no other than linnen breeches ; over that a smock 
close girt unto them with a towell. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 14. 
Already they see the field thronged with country folk, 
the men in clean white smocks or velveteen or fustian 
coats, with rough plush waistcoats of many colours. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 2. 
II. t n. Belonging or relating to women; char- 
acteristic of women ; female : common in old 
writers. 
Sem. Good sir, 
There are of us can be as exquisite traitors 
As e'er a male conspirator of you all. 
Cet Ay, at smodt-treason, matron, I believe you. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iv. 5. 
Plague ... on his wnocAr-loyalty ! 
Dryden, Spanish Friar, ii. 1. 
smock (smok), t'. t. [< smock. .] 1. To pro- 
vide with or clothe in a smock or smock-frock. 
Tho' smock'd, or furr'd and pnrpled, still the clown. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
2. To shir or pucker. See smocking. 
smock-facet (smok'fas), . An effeminate face. 
Chapman, All Fools, v. 1. 
smock-faced (smok'fast), a. Having a femi- 
nine countenance or complexion; white-faced; 
pale-faced. 
Young Endymion, your smooth, smock-fac'd boy. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, x. 491. 
smock-frock (smok'frok), . A garment of 
coarse linen, resembling a shirt in shape, worn 
by field-laborers over their other clothes : simi- 
lar to the French blouse. The yoke of this gar- 
ment at its best is elaborately shirred or puck- 
ered. See smocking. 
A clothes-line, with some clothes on it, striped blue and 
red, and a smock-frock, is stretched between the trunks of 
some stunted willows. Ruskin, Elements of Drawing, iii. 
smocking (smok'ing), w. [< smock + -ing.'] An 
ornamental shirring, recently used, intended to 
imitate that on the smock-frocks of field-la- 
borers. The lines, instead of being horizontal, 
form a honeycomb, the material being puckered 
diagonally. 
This shirt was a curious garment, of the finest drawn 
hair, and exquisitely wrought in a kind of smocking, with 
each little nest caught together by tiny bows of red and 
blue ribbon. The Critic, XI. 147. 
smockless (smok'les), a. [ME. smokies ; < smock 
+ -less.] Having no smock; unclothed. 
I hope it be nat your entente 
That I smokies out of your paleys wente. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 819. 
smock-linen (smok'lin ll 'en), n. Strong linen 
from which smock-frocks are made, especially 
in England. 
smock-mill (smok'mil), n. A form of wind- 
mill of which the mill-house is fixed and the 
cap only turns round as the wind varies, it 
thus differs from the post-mil], of which the whole fabric 
is movable round a vertical axis. It is also called the 
Dutch mill, as being that most commonly employed in 
the Netherlands for pumping. 
smock-race (smok'ras), n. A race for which 
a smock is the prize. 
Smock Races are commonly performed by the young 
country wenches, and so called because the prize is a 
holland smock, or shift, usually decorated with ribbands. 
StruU, Sports and Pastimes, p. 476. 
smock-racing (smok'ra"sing), n. The running 
of a smock-race or of smock-races. 
Among other amusements, smock-racing by women was 
kept up there [Pall Mall] till 1783. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iv. 
smokable (smo'ka-bl), a. [< smoke + -able.] 
Capable of being smoked. 
smoke (smok), r. ; pret. and pp. smoked, ppr. 
smoking. [Formerly also smoak; < ME. smoken, 
smokien (pret. smokede) ; < AS. smocian, smoci- 
gan (= MD. smoken, smooken, D. smoken = 
MLG. smoken, LG. smoken, smooken, also smoken 
= G. schmauchen, dial, schmoclien = Dan. smoge), 
smoke, reek ; a secondary form, taking the place 
of the orig. strong verb stneocan (pret. smcdc, 
pp. smocen), smoke; perhaps related to Gr. 
auvxeiv, burn slowly, smolder. Cf. Ir. much = 
W. mwg, smoke ; cf. also smoor, smother.] I. 
intrans. 1. To emit smoke; throw off volatile 
matter in the form of vapor or exhalation ; reek ; 
fume; especially, to send off visible vapor as 
the product of combustion. 
5718 
Queen Margaret saw 
Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood. 
SAO*., Kich. III., i. 2. 94. 
To him no temple stood 
Or altar smoked. Milton, P. L., i. 493. 
Lo there the King is with his Nobles set, 
And all the crouded Table miwaks with meat. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 172. 
2. To burn ; be kindled ; rage ; fume. 
The amrerof the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against 
that man. Deut. xxix. 20. 
How Wolsey broke off the insurance is very well told. 
Mistress Anne was "sent home again to her father for a 
season ; whereat she smoked." 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), Forewords, p. x., note. 
3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. 
Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. 
Dryden, JEaelA, vii. 909. 
4. To smell or hunt something out ; suspect 
something; perceive a hidden fact or meaning. 
[Now only colloq.] 5. To permit the passage 
of smoke outward instead of drawing it up- 
ward; send out smoke for want of sufficient 
draft: said of chimneys, stoves, etc. 
When, in obedience to our instructions, a fire was lighted, 
the chimney smoked so badly that we had to throw open 
door and windows, and to sit, as it were, in the open air. 
D. Christie Murray, Weaker Vessel, xxxix. 
6. To draw fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or 
the like, into, and emit them from, the mouth; 
use tobacco or opium in this manner. 
I hate married women ! Do they not hate me, and, sim- 
ply because I smoke, try to draw their husbands away from 
my society? Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confessions. 
7. To suffer as fro"m overwork or hard treat- 
ment; be punished. 
Some of you shall smoke for It In Rome. 
Shale., Tit. And., iv. 2. 111. 
8. To emit dust, as when beaten. 
At every stroke their jackets did smoke. ' 
Satin Hood and the Hanger (Child's Ballads, V. 209). 
smoke-consuming 
Why, you know you never laugh at the old folks, and 
never fly at your servants, nor smoke people before tin ii 
j aces _ Miss Buritey, Cecilia, vi. 11. 
6. To raise dust from by beating; "dust": as, 
I'll smoke his jacket for him. [Colloq.] 
I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right. 
Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 139. 
Smoked pearl. See pearl. 
smoke (smOk), ii. [Early mod. E. ulsosmoak; < 
ME. gmobe, < AS. smoea .(rare), < smcocan (pret. 
xnicdc, pp. smocen), smoke, reek: see s>A< -, r. 
This form has taken the place of the more orig. 
noun, E. dial, gmecch, < ME. smech, smeke, < AS. 
smec, smyc, umlaut forms of swfrfc (= D. tttn<>/; 
= MLG. smok, LG. sinook = MHO. smnnrh, G. 
Smoking salts. . 
II. trans. 1. To apply smoke to ; blacken with 
smoke ; hang in smoke ; medicate or dry by 
smoke ; fumigate : as, to smoke infected cloth- 
ing ; to subject to the action of smoke, as meat ; 
cure by means of smoke ; smoke-dry ; also, to 
incense. Smoking meat consists in exposing meat pre- 
viously salted, or rubbed over with salt, to wood-smoke 
in an apartment so distant from the fire as not to be 
unduly heated by it, the smoke being admitted by flues 
at the bottom of the side walls. Here the meat absorbs the 
empyreumatic acid of the smoke, and is dried at the same 
time. The kind of wood used affects the quality and taste 
of the meat, smoke from beech and oak being preferable 
to that from flr and larch. Smoke from the twigs and ber- 
ries of juniper, or from rosemary, peppermint, etc., im- 
parts somewhat of the aromatic flavor of these plants. A 
slow smoking with a slender tire is better than a quick and 
hot one, as it allows the empyreumatic principles time to 
penetrate into the interior without over-drying the out- 
side. 
Smakynff the temple. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1423. 
Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a 
musty room, comes me the prince. 
Shak., Much Ado, i. 3. 60. 
An old smoked wall, on which the rain 
Ran down in streaks ! B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. 
2. To affect in some way with smoke; espe- 
cially, to drive or expel by smoke: generally 
with out; also, to destroy or kill, as bees, by 
smoke. 
Are not these flies gone yet? Pray quit my house, 
I'll smoke you out else. B. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. 1. 
The king, upon that outrage against his person, smoked 
the Jesuits met of his nest. 
Sir E. Sandys, State of Religion (ed. 1605), O. 3 b. 
(Latham.) 
So the king arose, and went 
To smoke the scandalous hive of those wild bees 
That made such honey in his realm. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
3. To draw smoke from into the mouth and 
puff it out ; also, to burn or use in smoking ; in- 
hale the smoke of: as, to smoke tobacco or 
opium; to smoke a pipe or a cigar. 
Here would he smoke his pipe of a sultry afternoon, en- 
joying the soft southern breeze. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 160. 
4. To smell out; find out; scent; perceive; 
perceive the meaning of; suspect. [Archaic.] 
Ill hang you both, you rascals ! 
. . . you for the purse you cut 
In Paul's at a sermon ; I have smoalred you. ha ! 
Massinger, City Madam, iii. 1. 
It must be a very plausive invention that carries it; 
they begin to smoke me. Shak., All's Well, iv. 1. 30. 
5f. To sneer at; quiz; ridicule to one's face. 
This is a vile dog ; I see that already. No offence ! Ha, 
ha, ha! to him; to him, Petulant; smoke him. 
Conyreve, Way of the World, iii. 15. 
Pray, madam, smoke miss yonder biting her lips and 
playing with her fan. Sirtft, Polite Conversation, i. 
,.. 
(pp. smocen), smoke : see xmokr, r.] 1. 
The exhalation, visible vapor, or material that 
escapes or is expelled from a burning substance 
during combustion: applied especially to the 
volatile matter expelled from wood, coal, peat, 
etc., together with the solid matter which is 
carried off in suspension witM it, that expelled 
from metallic substances being more generally 
called fume orfumcx. 
The hill obouen bigan to quake, 
And tharof rase a ful grete reke, 
Bot that was ful wele smell and smeke. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 94. 
Laud we the gods ; 
And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils 
From our blest altars. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 6. 477. 
The rmoak of juniper ... is in great request with us 
at Oxford, to sweeten our chambers. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 283. 
Usually the name smoke is applied to this vaporous mix- 
ture discharged from a chimney only when it contains a 
sufficient amount of finely divided carbon to render it dark- 
coloured and distinctly visible. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 180. 
2. Anything that resembles smoke; steam; 
vapor; watery exhalations; dust. 
In vayne, mine eyes, in vaine you wast your teares, 
In vayne my sighs, the smokes of my despaires. 
Sir W. Raleigh, quoted in Puttenham's Arte of Eng. Poesie, 
[p. 168. 
Hence 3. Something unsubstantial; some- 
thing ephemeral or transient: as, the affair 
ended in smoke. 
This helpless smoke of words doth me no right. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1027. 
4. The act or process of drawing in and puff- 
ing out the fumes of burning tobacco, opium, 
or the like. [Colloq.] 
Soldiers . . . lounging about, taking an early morning 
smoke. W. 11. Russell, Diary in India, xxvU. 
5. A chimney. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
Dublin hath Houses of more than one Smoak. 
Petty, Polit. Survey of Ireland, p. 9. 
A dry smoke, the holding of an unlighted cigar or pipe 
between the lips. [Colloq.] Like smoke, very rapidly. 
[Slang.] 
Taking money like smoke. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. 105. 
London smoke, a dull-gray color. 
smoke-arch (smok'arch), n. The smoke-box of 
a locomotive. 
smoke-ball (smok'bal), . 1. ifilit., a spheri- 
cal case filled with a composition which, while 
burning, emits a great quantity of smoke : used 
chiefly for purposes of concealment or for an- 
noying an enemy's workmen in siege opera- 
tions. 2. A ball, used in trap-shooting, which 
on being struck emits a cloud of dark smoke. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 504. 
smoke-bell (sn:6k'bel), . A glass bell or dish 
suspended over a flame, as of a lamp or gas- 
light, to keep the smoke from blackening the 
ceiling. 
smoke-black (smok'blak), n. Lampblack. 
smoke-board (smok'bord), . A sliding or sus- 
pended board or plate placed before the upper 
part of a fireplace to increase the draft. 
smoke-box (smok'boks), . A chamber in a 
steam-boiler, at the ends of the tubes or flues 
and opposite to the fire-box, into which all the 
gases of combustion enter on their way to the 
smoke-stack. 
Smoke-brown (smok'broun), n. In entom., an 
obscure grayish brown, resembling the hue of 
thick smoke. 
smoke-bush (smok'bush), n. Same as nmoke- 
tree. 
smoke-condenser (sm6k'kon-den*ser),n. Same 
as smoke-vaslter, 
smoke-consumer (sm6k'kon-su'"mer), n. An 
apparatus for consuming or burning all the 
smoke from a fire. 
smoke-consuming (sm6k'kon-su"ming), a. 
Serving to consume or burn smoke : as, a snioke- 
consumiitg furnace. 
