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The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.]

A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macualay.

Any kind of government monopoly (tobacco, salt, etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. Such monopolies are largely employed in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain.

A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] Mayhew.

an; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift. [He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.]

One who smokes tobacco or the like.

ars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.

Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.

der Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

A pouch, as for tobacco. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

arrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water. The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate. Sir W. Scott. Squirting cucumber. (Bot.) See Ecballium.