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A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane…

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.

A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

Producing smoke.

One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

To subject to the action of smoke. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

Producing smoke; smoky.

To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [Obs.] King.

A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.…

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

e. Acts xviii.7. Hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes." Milton. -- Hard pushed, Hard run, greatly pressed; as, he was hard pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.] -- Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusemen…

An Havana cigar. Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable. Thackeray.