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A stable; a shippen. [Obs.] The shepne brenning with the blacke smoke. Chaucer.

To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot. [Obs.]

the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.

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

from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.

Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.

To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser.

Smoldering; suffocating; smothery. [Obs.] A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke. Spenser.

fect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.

A suffocating smoke. Grose.

To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. [Written also smooch.] B. Jonson.

h rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.

To black or foul with soot. [R.] Sootied with noisome smoke. Chapman.

prevent the escape of sparks while it allows the passage of gas, -- chiefly used in the smokestack of a wood-burning locomotive. Called also spark consumer. [U.S.]

y single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming)

ngs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. Swift.

To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.

to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. Roscommon. No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity. Atterbury.

A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.

The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles.