smoke-dry 
smoke-dry (smok'dri), r. t. To dry or cure by 
smoke: M.MM>e-drfe<lme&t Beewnoto, r. <.,]. 
smoke-farthingst (smok'far"THingz), . 
Same 
6716 
smolder 
1. 
As for your smoke-farthing* and Peter-pence, I make no 
reckoning. JewW, Works, iv. 1079. 
2. Same as hearth-tax. 
smoke-gray (smok'gra), w. An orange-gray 
color of moderate luminosity. 
smoke-house (smok'hous), . 1 . A building in 
which meats or fish are cured by smoking ; also, 
one in which smoked meats are stored. The 
former Is provided with hooks for suspending the pieces 
to be smoked, which are hung over a smoldering lire kin- 
dled at the bottom of the apartment. 
I recollected the smolte-hnuxe, an out-building appended 
to all Virginian establishments for the smoking of hams 
and other kinds of meat. 
Irving, Crayon Papers, Ralph Ringwood. 
2. In leatlier-manuf., a close room heated by 
means of a fire of 
spent tan, whicli 
smolders, but pro- 
duces no flame. It is 
used for unhairing hides, 
which are hung up in the 
smoky atmosphere until 
incipient fermentation 
has softened the epider- 
mis and the roots of the 
hair. 
smoke-jack (smok'- 
jak),. 1. A machine 
for turning a roast- 
ing-spit by means of a 
fly-wheel or -wheels, 
set in motion by the 
current of ascending 
air in a chimney. 
The smoke-jack clanked, 
and the tall clock ticked 
looks us if the bird had a pipe in its mouth. Mt of holding a lighted cigar, cigaretie. or |>ii>c 
(i. Tniniliii/l. [New Jersey.] Smoker's cancer, in the mouth ami drawing in ami emitting the 
Oke: aK<i iiM-.l in conijiiisitiiiii with i 
oimecteil w itli i I : a-, 
a fiiiiil.nii/ car: a muni, i//-saloon. 3. A ijui/.- 
/ing; lianteriin.'. 
oli! ' <n in! Mrs. Thrale, "what a smoking did Mlw 
Burney give Mr. Cruti:M' 
time. D'Arblay, Diary, II. C9. (Varin.) 
4t. The act of spying, suspecting, or fen. 
out. l>i 1:1, i. 
smoking (smo'king\ j>. </. Kmitling smoke or 
steam; hence, brisk or fierce. 
Smoke-jack. 
, . the chimney, contracted in a 
circular form ; b, strong bar placed 
with Official importance. over the fireplace, tosuppo r rt the 
J. W. Palmer, After his I 1 "* ' c < w ""l 'th vanes radiating 
from its center, set in motion by the 
ascent of the heated air, and com- 
municating, by the pinion d and the 
crown-wheel e, with the pulley /, 
' h motion is transmitted to 
in passing over it. 
[Kind, p. 112. 
2. On railways, 
hood Or Covering for from whic 
the end Of a BtOVe- ""^'^ 
pipe, on the outside of a car. Also called store- 
jack. 
smokeless (smok'les), . [< smoke + -less.] 
Having, emitting, or causing little or no smoke : 
as, smokeless powder. 
No noontide bell invites the country round ; 
Tenants with sighs the smokeless towers survey. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 191. 
I saw 
On my left, through the beeches. 
Thy palace, Goddess, 
Smokeless, empty ! 
a. Arnold, The Strayed Reveller. 
smokelessly (smok'les-li), adv. Without smoke. 
The appliances for, or methods of, consuming coal 
xmokelexsly are already at work. The Engineer, LXIX. 367. 
smokelessness (smok'les-nes), n. The charac- 
ter or state of being smokeless. 
Smoke-money (smok'mun'i), n. Same us smoke- 
silver. 
smoke-painted (smok'pan'ted), n. Produced 
by the process of smoke-painting. 
smoke-painting (sm6k'pan"ting), . The art 
or process of producing drawings in lampblack, 
or carbon deposited from smoke. Compare 
kapnography. 
smoke-penny (sinok'pen'i), . Same as smoke- 
silver. 
smoke-pipe (smok'pip), n. Same as smoke- 
stack. 
smoke-plant (smok ' plant), . 1. Same as 
smoke-tree. 2. A hydroid polyp, often seen in 
aquariums. 
smoke-quartz (smok'kwarts), . Smoky quartz. 
See smoky. 
smoker (smo'ker), . [= D. smoker = G. 
schmaucher; as smoke + -er 1 .] 1. One who or 
that which smokes, in any sense of the verb. 
() One who habitually smokes tobacco or opium, (b) One 
who smoke-dries meat, (c) One who quizzes or makes 
sport of another. 
These wooden Wits, these Quizzers, Queerers, Smokers, 
These practical, nothing-so-easy Jokers. 
Caiman the Younger, Poetical Vagaries, p. 150. (Daties.) 
2. See the quotation. 
At Preston, before the passing of the Reform Bill in 
1882, every person who had a cottage with a chimney, 
and used the latter, had a vote, and was called a smoker. 
Ilalliwell. 
3. A smoking-car. [Colloq., U. S.] 
The engine, baggage car and smoker passed over all 
right. The Engineer, LXX. 56. 
4. The long-billed curlew. Numenius longiros- 
tris: so called from the shape of the bill, which 
I Smoker's cancer, 
an eplthelloma of the lips or mouth which i-, ii.nMilrivd to 
bedne to the iiiiuhanlcal Irritation MI thi- pipe. Smoker's 
heart, s heart. Smoker's patches, ;> f"i m ..f 1. -m <>- 
placla huccalls, causing while patrhfa on the mtic-.m-, 
membrane uf thr mouth and lips. 
smoke-rocket (smok'rok'et), n. In iilum/iiii;/. a 
device for testing this tightness of house-drains 
by generating smoke within them. 
smoke-sail (smok'sul ). >/. A small sail hoisted 
against the foremast forward of the galley-fun- 
nel when a ship 
rides head to 
wind, to give 
the smoke of the 
galley an oppor- 
tunity to rise, 
and to prevent 
it from being 
blown aft to the 
quarter-deck. 
smoke-shade 
(smok'shad), n. 
A scale some- 
times adopted 
in estimating 
by their color 
the amount of 
unburnt carbon 
in the gases 
yielded by coal s.noke-san. 
burned in grates 
or stoves: it ranges from to 10, the latter 
number applying when the color is very black 
and dense. 
smoke-silver (smok'sil'ver), . Money former- 
ly paid annually to the minister of a parish as 
a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. 
smoke-stack (smok'stak), . A pipe, usually 
of sheet-iron, through which the smoke and 
gases of combustion from a steam-boiler are 
discharged into the open air. See cut under 
passenger-engirw. 
smoke-stone (smok'ston), w. Same as smoky 
quartz, or cairngorm. 
smoke-tight (smok 'tit), a. Impervious to 
smoke; not permitting smoke to enter or escape. 
smoke-tree (smok'tre), n. A tree-like shrub, 
H/IIIX Cotinus, native in southern Europe, culti- 
vated elsewhere for ornament. Most of the flowers 
are usually abortive, and the panicle develops into a light 
I, Branch with Fmit and Sterile Pedicels of Smoke-tree (RhutCoti- 
wj) ; v, the inflorescence, ti, a flower ; />, a fruit, with sterile pedicels. 
feathery or cloud-like bunch of a green or reddish color 
(whence the above name, also that of fringe-tree). The 
wood yields a valuable dye, the young fustic (which see, 
under fustic) ; the leaves are used for tanning (see scotino). 
Also called smoke-bush, smoke-plant, Venetian sumac, and 
yenus's-sumac. 
smoke-washer (sm6k'wosh*'er), n. A device 
for purifying smoke by washing as it passes 
through a chimney-flue. A simple form drives a 
spray of water upward into the flue. The water falls back 
after passing through the smoke, is collected below, and 
furnishes a black pigment, used for paint. A more com- 
plicated apparatus consists of a vertical cylinder of boiler- 
plates having several perforated diaphragms of sheet-iron. 
Water is made to enter at the top while the smoke enters 
below and is forced upward by a powerful exhaust. 
smokewood (smok'wiid), n. The virgin's- 
bower, Clematis Vitalba : so called because boys 
smoke its porous stems. [Prov. Eng.] 
smokily (smo'ki-li), adv. In a smoky manner. 
smokiness (smo'ki-nes), n. The state of being 
smoky. 
smoking (smo'king), . [Verbal n. of smoke, 
/-.] 1. The act of emitting smoke. 2. The 
Look how it lupins tu ruin, :uid l>y tin- clnmls. If I mis- 
takt: not, we shall pnM:nt!y h;ivc u .-// > r, and 
therefore sit close. /. If' alton, Complete Angler, p. 104. 
smoking-cap (smo'king-kap), w. A light cap 
without vizor and often ornamental, usually 
worn by smokers. 
smoking-car (smo'king-kiir), . A railroad-car 
in which smoking is permitted. [U. 8.] 
smoking-carriage (smo'king-kar'fij), n. A 
smoking-ciir. [Eng.] 
smoking-duck (smo'king-duk), H. The Amer- 
ican widgeon, Marecu inm rii-nmi : said to be so 
called from some fancied resemblance of its 
note to the puffing sound of a person smoking. 
See cut under iriili/i',,n. I!. Hi nnii-olt. [Brit- 
ish America.] 
smoking-jacket (smo'king- jak'et), . A jacket 
for wear while smoking. 
smoking-lamp (smo'king-lamp), n. A lamp 
hung up on board of a man-of-war during hours 
when smoking is permitted, for the men to 
light their pipes by. 
smokingly (smo'king-li), adv. Like or as smoke. 
The sudden dis-appearing of the Lord 
Seem'd like to Powder flred on a boord, 
When smokingly it mounts in sudden tl;i-li. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, U., The Vocation. 
smoking-room (smo'king-rom), n. A room, as 
in a private dwelling or a hotel, set apart for 
the use of smokers. 
smoky (smo'ki), a. [Formerly also smoaky ; < 
ME. smoky; < smoke, n., + -y*.] 1. Emitting 
smoke, especially much smoke; smoldering: 
as, smoky tires. 
Then rise, O fleecy Fog ! and raise 
The glory of her coming days ; 
Be as the cloud that flecks the seas 
Above her ttiiwky argosies. 
Bret Hartt, San Francisco. 
2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke. 
London appears in a morning drowned in a black cloud, 
and all the day after smothered with stiwky fog. Harvey. 
3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resem- 
bling it ; filled with a haze ; hazy : as, a smoky 
atmosphere. 
Swich a reyne from hevene gafi avale 
That every maner woman that was there 
Uadde of that smoky reyn a verray fere. 
Chaucer, Trollus, il. 628. 
4. Subject to be filled with smoke from the 
chimneys or fireplaces. 
He is as tedious 
As a tired horse, a railing wife ; 
Worse than a smoky house. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ill. 1. 161. 
5. Emitting smoke in an objectionable or trou- 
blesome way: said of chimneys, stoves, etc., 
sending out smoke, at fireplaces and pipe- 
holes, into the house, because of poor draft. 
6. Stained or tarnished with smoke. 
Lowly sheds 
With smoky rafters. Milton, Comus, L 324. 
7f. Quick to smoke an idea; keen to smell out 
a secret ; suspicious. 
Besides, Sir, people in this town are more smoaky and 
suspicious. Oxford, you know, is the seat of the Muses, 
and a man is naturally permitted more mnament and gar- 
niture to his conversation than they will allow in this lati- 
tude. Foote, The Liar, i. 1. 
I-gad, I don't like his Looks he seems a little smoky. 
Cither, Provoked Husband, ii. 
8. Of the color of smoke; of a grayish-brown 
color. Smoky bat. Molosswt nasittwt, the South Ameri- 
can monk-bat. Smoky pies, the large dark-brown jays of 
the genus rxilorhiniis. Smoky quartz, the smoky or 
brownish-yellow variety of quartz found on Ilke's ivak 
(Colorado)! In Scotland, and in Brazil : same as it'rti- 
ffonn. Smoky topaz, a name frequently applied by ji-w- 
elers to smoky quartz. Smoky urine, urine of a darkish 
color, occurring in some cases of nephritis. The color is 
due to the presence of a small quantity of blood. Smoky 
Wainscot, Lmcania impura, a British moth. Smoky 
Wave, Aciitalia fumata, a British geometrid moth, 
smolder, smoulder (smol'der), r. [Early mod. 
E. also xmookler: < ME. xnmlili-nn, smoliiren, 
< smolder, a stifling smoke: see smolder, ., 
smother, n. Cf. LG. xmolen, ftmelen, smolder, = 
D. smeulen, smoke hiddenly, smolder, = G. dial. 
Kcluiialfii, stifle, bum slowly: SIT xmt-ll. The 
