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Smoke
·noun To suffer severely; to be punished.
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to smoke
To observe, to suspect.
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smoke
v. (slang).
See quotation.
1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' June 26, p. 8, col. 8:
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to smoke
To find any one out; to discover anything meant to be kept secret.--Halliwell.
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Dry
·superl Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
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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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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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Dry dock
·- ·see under <<Dock>>.
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Dry goods
·- A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, ·etc., — in distinc...
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Dry nurse
·- A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand;
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Dry-beat
·vt To beat severely.
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Dry-boned
·adj Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.
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Dry-eyed
·adj Not having tears in the eyes.
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Dry-fisted
·adj <<Niggardly>>.
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Dry-rub
·vt To rub and cleanse without wetting.
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Dry-rubbed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-rubbing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-shod
·adj Without wetting the feet.
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Dry-stone
·adj Constructed of uncemented stone.
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Kiln-dry
·vt To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
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dry bob
A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
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dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
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dry-blowing
n.
a Western Australian term ingold-mining.
1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5:
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drop-dry
Completely water-tight.
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dry dock
An artificial receptacle for examining and repairing vessels. (See graving-dock.)
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dry ducking
Suspending a person by a rope a few yards above the surface of the water.
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dry flogging
Punishing over the clothes of a culprit.
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dry gales
Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harm...
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dry-rot
A disease destructive of timber, occasioned by a fungus, the Merulius lachrymans, which softens wood...
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dry rowing
"Row dry." Not to dash the spray with the blade of the oar in the faces of those in the stern-sheets...
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row dry!
The order to those who row, not to splash water into the boat.
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dry-bulb thermometer
The readings of this instrument, when compared with those of a wet-bulb thermometer, indicate the am...
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dry holy-stoning
See holy-stone.
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high-and-dry
The situation of a ship or other vessel which is aground, so as to be seen dry upon the strand when ...
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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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thick-and-dry for weighing!
To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground.
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