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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.

in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. Smoked the calumet, the Peace pipe, As a signal to the nations. Lowgfellow.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

r. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.

tened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.

A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking. Cigar fish (Zoöl.), a fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

A coffee and smoking saloon. [Colloq.]

A café, or room in a café, in which smoking is allowed.

vado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking. A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak ham. Shak.

Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]…

To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. "Kippered salmon." Dickens.