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• Smoke

  ·noun To suffer severely; to be punished. II. Smoke ·noun Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. II...

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• smoke

  v. (slang). See quotation. 1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' June 26, p. 8, col. 8: «He said to the ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to smoke

  To find any one out; to discover anything meant to be kept secret.--Halliwell. The two free-booters...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• London smoke

  ·add. ·- A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, ·etc., which red...

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• Smoke ball

  ·add. ·- ·same·as <<Puffball>>. ...

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• Smoke-dry

  ·vt To dry by or in smoke. ...

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• frost-smoke

  A thick mist in high latitudes, arising from the surface of the sea when exposed to a temperature mu...

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• smoke-balls

  A pyrotechnical preparation, thrown to short distances from mortars, to choke men out of mines, to c...

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• smoke-box

  A part which crosses the whole front of a marine boiler, over the furnace doors; or that part betwee...

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• smoke-sail

  A small sail hoisted against the fore-mast when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the ...

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• board him in the smoke

  To take a person by surprise, as by firing a broadside, and boarding in the smoke. ...

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