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A donkey. [Cant] Thackeray.

To foul with smoke.

A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.

See Mollemoke.

Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Æstrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar. [Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke, etc.]

That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

Same as Puffball.

To dry by or in smoke.

A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.

A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Dermestes lardarius) which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's self or property from harm or less. [Colloq…

ase filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

de from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.