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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.

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.

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…

case 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.

ade 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.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

y which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.