smoke-balls

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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.

• fire-balls

  Are used for destroying vessels run aground, and firing buildings. They are made of a composition of...

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• light-balls

  Are thrown from mortars at night to discover the enemy's working parties, &c. They are composed of s...

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• long balls

  Engaging beyond the reach of carronades. ...

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• stink-balls

  A pyrotechnical preparation of pitch, rosin, nitre, gunpowder, colophony, assafœtida, and other offe...

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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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• 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-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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• red-hot balls

  Shot made red-hot in a furnace, and in that state discharged at the enemy. The loading is managed wi...

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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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