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drous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.

The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France. [Colloq.]

(Zoöl.), the European tree sparrow. -- Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach. -- Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant (Arnica montana) of Europe; called also leopard's bane. -- Mountain witch (Zoöl.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon.

trument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.

A stinking tobacco.

An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

ate, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly. -- Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath. -- Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.

Tobacco. [R.] B. Jonson.

solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of tobacco.

A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form; negro head.

private and personal uses. A slight peculium only subtracted to supply his snuff box and tobacco pouch. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

A kind of twisted chewing tobacco. The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail. Swift.

A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.

Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.