frost-smoke

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• Frost

  ·vt To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants. II. Frost ·vi Frozen dew; — called also hoarfrost or...

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• Frost

  (Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered "ice" in...

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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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• to smoke

  To observe, to suspect. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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.

• Frost signal

  ·add. ·- A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather ...

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• Frost-bitten

  ·p.a. Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing. ...

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• Frost-blite

  ·noun A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. II. Frost-blite ·noun The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium...

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• frost-fish

  n. name given in Australia and NewZealand to the European Scabbard-fish, Lepidopuscaudatus, White. ...

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

• frost-fish

  (Genus, morrhua.) A small fish which abounds on our coast during the winter months. It is also calle...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• frost-fish

  A small fish, called also tommy-cod; in North America they are taken in large quantities in the dept...

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• frost-rime

  See frost-smoke. ...

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• 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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• 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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