Dictionary entry

Smoke (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Smoke, v. t. 1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. “Smoking the temple.” Chaucer.

3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

I alone

Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman.

He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak.

Upon that... I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison.

4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

5. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.

6. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; — often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.