Smoke sb.

Forms: 1 smoca (smocca), 2– smoke, 5 smokke, 6–7 smok; 6 Sc. smoik, 6–8 smoake, 6–9 smoak. [OE. smoca, f. the weak grade of the stem represented by OE. sméocan SMEEK v. To a different grade (smauk-) belong MDu. smoock (Du. smook), MLG. (and LG.) smôk, smök (hence Da. smøg), MHG. smouch (G. schmauch). See also SMOOK sb.]

  I.  1. The visible volatile product given off by burning or smoldering substances.

  α.  c. 1000.  Lambeth Ps. xvii. 9. Astah smoca on yrre his.

c. 1000.  in Cockayne, Narrat. (1861), 43. Ut æt his nosu eode micel smocca.

a. 1154.  O. E. Chron., an. 1137. Me henged up bi the fet & smoked heom mid ful smoke.

a. 1200.  St. Marher., 9. On his hehe hokede neose þreaste smeorðrinde smoke ut.

c. 1290.  St. Brendan, 491, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 233. Strong was þe stunch and þe smoke.

c. 1340.  Hampole, Pr. Consc., 4727. Þat es blode and fire and brethe of smoke.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 9512. The smoke of þe smert loghys … waivet in the welkyn.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 461/1. Smoke, reke, idem quod Reke.

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 100. In the smoke of the gunnes let us entre the gate.

1600.  J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, III. 133. It cannot be spoiled either by smoke, or too much heat.

1718.  Prior, Solomon, III. 522. As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment, and the next expires.

1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), III. 156. A large fire … filling the whole place with smoke.

1829.  Lytton, Devereux, I. viii. Don Diego, inhaling the fragrant weed,… replied to the request of his petitioner by smoke.

1888.  F. Hume, Mme. Midas, I. v. The smoke was pouring out thick and black from the tall red chimney.

  β.  1591.  Greene, Farew. to Follie, Wks. (Grosart), IX. 343. [He] was tied to a post and choaked with smoake.

1660.  Boyle, New Exp. Phys.-Mech., xxx. (1682), 113. Filled the Reciever with smoak.

1787.  Winter, Syst. Husb., 47. Soot may be rather deemed the smoak itself.

1810.  Vince, Astron., xvii. 159. He compared them to smoak and clouds.

  † b.  ellipt. The fumes of incense. Also fig. Obs.

c. 1450.  Myrr. Our Lady, 327. Mercifull virgyn,… rodde of smoke, but swete smellynge.

a. 1627.  Sir J. Beaumont, Poems, The Epiphany, 35. Who lift to God for vs the holy smoke Of feruent pray’rs.

  c.  The fact of smoke coming out into a room instead of passing up the chimney.

1715.  Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 69. We shall … shew of what service the … passage of Air behind the Back is, for hind’ring Smoke. Ibid., 72. When you wou’d prevent Smoke.

  d.  The (big, great) smoke, a colloquial name for London.

1864.  Slang Dict., 237. Country-people when going to the metropolis say, they are on their way to the SMOKE.

1898.  F. T. Bullen, Cruise ‘Cachalot,’ xxv. 330. I desired to know what brought him so far from the ‘big smoke.’

  e.  transf. The pollen of the yew when scattered in a cloud.

1868.  Lady Tennyson, in Life Tennyson (1897), II. ii. 53. There has been a great deal of smoke in the yew-trees this year.

1869.  Tennyson, Holy Grail, 15. A gustful April morn That puff’d the swaying branches into smoke.

  2.  With a and pl. A volume, cloud or column of smoke. In Amer. and Austr. use spec. one serving as a signal, sign of an encampment, etc.

  sing.  1388.  Wyclif, Rev. ix. 2. A smoke of the pit stiede vp.

c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well, 67. Þe feend, as a smoke, vanysched awey.

1594.  R. Wilson, Coblers Prophesie, G j b. From one part let a smoke arise.

1695.  Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, IV. (1723), 228. Being succeeded by a Smoak, which … resembles fired Gun-powder.

1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, I. 209. I was afraid of making a Smoak about my Habitation.

1796.  Withering, Brit. Pl. (ed. 3), IV. 361. On being touched throwing up the seeds in form of a smoke.

1802.  Barrington, Hist. New South Wales, vii. 223–4. They … must have perished on the island, had not Mr. Bass discovered a smoke that they had made to draw his attention.

  pl.  1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 21585. A-mong the smokys blake, Ther he gan hys bed to make.

1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cclxxxi. 421. They can nat … put you out of your realme by their smokes.

1620.  Markham, Farew. Husb., II. xvii. (1668), 76. In seed time make great smoaks in your Corn-fields.

1697.  Dampier, Voy. (1699), 252. We … leave them a sign to know where we are by making one or more great Smoaks.

1748.  Anson’s Voy., II. xiii. 271. The enemy … were … incamped in the woods about us; for we could see their smokes.

1841.  Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), II. xli. 55. Their smokes were seen in various directions.

1890.  Argus (Melbourne), 26 July, 4/4. By-and-by answers came from smokes away in the bush.

  b.  The smoke arising from a particular hearth or fire-place; hence, a hearth, fire-place, house. Now rare.

1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. iii. 1097. Leading all his life at home in Peace, Alwayes in sight of his own smoak.

1610.  in Council Bk. Youghal Corp. (1878), 11. A scavenger … shall be paid yearly out of every smoak, 4d. at Michalmas and Easter.

a. 1687.  Petty, Polit. Arith., ii. (1691), 42. In Ireland wherein are … near 300 Thousand Smokes or Hearths.

1792.  Stat. Acc. Scotl., IV. 316. For 6 miles in a well inhabited extent,… there was not a smoke remaining.

1883.  Good Words, XXIV. 717. There are [on Minglay] in all thirty houses, or ‘smokes,’ as they are called.

  3.  Fume or vapor caused by the action of heat on moisture.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxxiii. (Bodl. MS.). Þat þe lunges mowe open and close þe hoote smoke of þe herte.

1422.  trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 218. Dronknesse makyth for-yetynge … by reyson that the grete smokkes gone vp to the brayn.

1562.  Turner, Baths, 9. They that woulde use the smooke or vaperouse ayer of this water.

1584.  Lyly, Alex. & Camp., II. i. Steeds … whose breathes dimmed the sun with smoake.

1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., II. ii. II. (1651), 239. To purge the heart and brain from ill smoakes and vapours that offend them.

a. 1693.  Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxxvii. 311. Demanding payment for the Smoak of his Roast-meat.

1888.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Robbery under Arms, I. xi. 136. You ought to have sense enough not to knock smoke out of fresh horses before we begin.

  b.  A mist, fog or miasma (see later quots.).

1648.  Hexham, II. Een Roock der aerden, a Smoake, a Mist, or Dampe, rising out of the earth.

1788.  A. Falconbridge, Slave Tr. Afr., 51. Together with what they call the smokes, (a noxious vapour, arising from the swamps about the latter end of autumn).

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 635. Smokes. Dense exhalations, mixed with the finer particles of sand, on the Calabar shores and borders of the Great Zahara desert, which prevail in autumn.

1897.  Miss Kingsley, W. Africa, 94. Those thick wool-like mists called smokes, which hang about the whole Bight from November till May.

  4.  In proverbial, figurative or allusive uses:

  a.  In miscellaneous applications or phrases.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 211. Whan every thing was fulli spoke, Of sorwe and queint was al the smoke.

1526.  State Papers Hen. VIII., VI. 542. Of whom … I have lernyd many strange thinges, wherof I smelt a smoke at Calays.

1580.  Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 287. I perceiue … where the least smoake is, there to be the greatest fire.

1602.  Marston, Ant. & Mel., I. Wks. 1856, I. 13. His eyes looke as if they had bene hung In the smoake of his nose.

1670.  G. H., trans. Hist. Cardinals, I. I. 20. I … took my leave, as perceiving him fuller of smoak than of meat.

17[?].  in N. & Q., 3rd Ser. XII. 163/2. Never out of the smoke of your own chimney.

1774.  Westm. Mag., II. 109. Their summum bonum lies in drinking themselves dead drunk,… playing smoak with the girls.

1854.  Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v., If a lent horse has been over-ridden, it is commonly remarked, ‘He played smoke with that horse, he has been good for nothing since.’

1870.  Lowell, Study Wind., 228. The first lesson of literature, no less than of life, is the learning how to burn your own smoke.

  b.  In the proverbs There is no fire without smoke, and no smoke without fire, or variants of these: (see FIRE sb. 1 h).

c. 1450.  MS. Douce 52 lf. 20. Where no fyre is no smoke.

1546–.  [see FIRE sb. 1 h].

1650.  Hubbert, Pill to purge Formality, 133. There is no fire but there will be some smoak.

1654.  Gataker, Disc. Apol., 11. There is seldom anie smoak, but where there is some fire.

1705.  Wycherley, in Pope’s Lett. (1735), I. 14. You must allow there is no Smoak but there is some Fire.

1820.  Coleridge, Lett., Conv., etc. I. 118. They … then exclaim: There is no smoke without some fire.

  † c.  Out of the smoke into the fire, etc., out of a small danger into a great one. Obs. (Cf. L. de fumo in flammam, Ammianus.)

1547.  J. Harrison, Exhort. Scottes, f iv b. Leaste by fleynge the smoke, we fall into the fyre.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., I. ii. 299. Thus must I from the smoake into the smother.

1609.  Holland, Amm. Marcell., XIV. ii. 25. Hee … went just as the old proverbe saith, out of the smoke into the light fire.

  d.  Used to designate anything having no real value or substance, or a mere shadow of something.

1548.  trans. Papius’ Conc. Apothecaries, in Recorde, Urinal Phys. (1651), 243. That the selfe-conceited … may learne to … brag and vaunt forth their vanities and smokes.

1559.  Mirr. Mag. (1563), I v. Our kyngdomes are but cares,… our power a smouldring smoke.

1601–3.  Daniel, C’tess Cumberland, 35. The all-guiding Prouidence … mocks this smoake of wit.

1621.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Superbiæ Flagellum, D 3. Their Pride is … A smoake, a bubble.

1705.  Wycherley, in Pope’s Lett. (1735), I. 14. If Compliment be the Smoak only of Friendship.

1749.  Smollett, Gil Blas, X. i. Preferring the smoke of public applause to the real advantages which my friendship prepared for him.

1806.  Sporting Mag., XXVIII. 279. In his opinion it was all smoke.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 122. The ambitious man will think knowledge which is without honour all smoke and nonsense.

  e.  Denoting a clouding or obscuring medium or influence.

1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Fuligo, To speake obscurely: to cast a darke smoke or miste before their eies.

1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 273 b. Why shamed he not to blind the eyes of the people with such smoakes?

1594.  T. B., trans. La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., II. 333. Their eies dimmed with some smoake of honours.

1603.  J. Davies (Heref.), Microcosmos, Wks. (Grosart), I. 78/1. The Eyes that … smoke of praise Doe dimme, are feeble-sighted.

a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm., Wks. 1716, I. 167. Truth will not be discerned through the smoak of wrathful expressions.

1864.  Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 672. Thro’ the smoke, The blight of low desires.

1873.  Farrar, Silence & Voices, Ser. I. 22. Reading them … through the lurid smoke of sectarian hate.

  f.  Denoting fraudulent dealing in the fulfilment of bargains or promises; esp. to sell smoke (after L. fumum vendere), to act dishonestly, to swindle.

1589.  Greene, Menaphon, Wks. (Grosart), VI. 106. You get but a handfull of smoake to the bargaine.

1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Wks. (Grosart), V. 306. That for your selling smoake you may be courtiers.

1655.  trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, IV. 24. I abandoned their conversation, because I found they were but sellers of smoak.

1692.  Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. People, Pref. To relieve the necessities of Nature … by selling of Smoke, as thou dost.

  g.  To come to, end in, vanish into, smoke, to come to nothing, be unrealized, be without result.

1604.  E. Grimstone, Hist. Siege Ostend, 184. Their subtill deuises are come to smoake.

1617.  Moryson, Itin., II. 44. The ill successe of the Queenes affaires (whose … Royall Army they had seene vanish into smoke).

1683.  Temple, Mem., Wks. 1720, I. 470. Thus ended in smoke the whole Negotiation, which was near raising so great a fire.

1704.  Collect. Voy. & Trav., III. 699/2. His Designs vanished into Smoke.

1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1815), 168. I take it for granted, this whole affair will end in smoke.

1853.  Mrs. Carlyle, in New Lett. & Mem., II. 68. One might let him scheme and talk, hoping it might all end in smoke.

  h.  Like smoke, very quickly, rapidly.

1833.  M. Scott, Tom Cringle, x. Sail was made, and … she began to snore through it like smoke.

1840.  Marryat, Poor Jack, vi. Away we all went like smoke.

1853.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., xi. His brandy-balls go off like smoke.

1860.  Whyte-Melville, Market Harb., 86. The hounds are running like smoke!

  5.  a. Tobacco. Now rare or Obs.

1612.  Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 20*. A small Gallon of Sack, and a pipe of the best smoake.

1616.  R. C., Times’ Whistle (1871), 71. Every skull And skip-iacke now will have his pipe of smoke And whiff it.

1649.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Wand. West, 19. They gave me smoake and drinke in Plimouth.

1853.  ‘C. Bede,’ Verdant Green, I. vii. That if Mr. Larkyns was no smoker himself, he at least kept a bountiful supply of ‘smoke’ for his friends.

  b.  A cigar or cigarette. Also fig.

1882.  Besant, All Sorts, 112. The twopenny smoke, to which we cling, though it is made of medicated cabbage.

1893.  C. G. Leland, Mem., I. 158. She was,… as we used to say at college of certain unpopular people, a ‘bad smoke.’

  6.  [f. the vb.] A spell of smoking tobacco, etc.

1837.  W. Irving, Adv. Capt. Bonneville, II. 286. A crowd of visiters awaited their appearance, all eager for a smoke and a talk.

1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 241. It was considered reasonable to devote half an hour to rest … and a smoke for the stockmen.

  7.  Cape smoke, a cheap kind of brandy drunk in South Africa.

1849.  E. E. Napier, Excurs. S. Africa, II. 9. A young Hottentot,… as fond of ‘Cape Smoke’ … as any of his tribe.

1880.  Gillmore, On Duty, 366. He produced a bottle of smoke (Cape brandy).

1893.  Edin. Rev., April, 297. ‘Cape Smoke’ is the most poisonous of all alcoholic drinks.

  8.  A Persian cat of a deep cinder-color, with a white under-coat.

  Also in combs., as smoke-breeder, -fancier, etc.

1893.  Westm. Gaz., 17 Oct., 4/3. Miss Brigden’s cat should not be overlooked among the ‘smokes.’

  II.  attrib. and Comb. 9. Attrib., in the sense of ‘consisting of smoke,’ as smoke-atmosphere, -burst, -cloud, -drift, etc.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. iv. It will burn … its whole *smoke-atmosphere too.

1852.  M. Arnold, Empedocles, II. 417. Through the black, rushing *smoke-bursts, Thick breaks the red flame.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. iii. From yonder White Haven rise his *smoke-clouds.

1884.  Athenæum, 6 Dec., 739/1. Bars of light and shade belonging to the mist and *smoke-drift of London.

1864.  Lowell, Fireside Trav., 8. Nor did the *smoke-palm of Vesuvius stand more erect and fair.

1890.  Sir R. S. Ball, Star-Land, 335. We can make many experiments with *smoke-rings.

1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, II. Wks. (1876), 19. His stature, on the mighty plan Of *smoke-tower o’er the burning pile.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. I. ii. Thou seest the *Smoke-vapour.

1598.  Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. ix. 219. Belch impious blasphemies,… Snuffe vp *smoak-whiffs.

1808.  Scott, Marm., IV. xxx. The *smoke-wreaths … That round her sable turrets flow.

  b.  Used for, or promoting, the escape of smoke, as smoke-flue, -funnel, -pipe, etc.

1840.  Cottager’s Manual, 7, in Husb., III. (L. U. K.). Vertical strata of gravel … alternating with *smoke-flues.

1799.  G. Smith, Laboratory, 143. A sort of funnel, like a *smoke funnel to an oven.

1853.  Ure, Dict. Arts (ed. 4), II. 105. The *smoke-pipe of a subsidiary fire.

1856.  Kane, Arctic Explor., I. xxxi. 424. The *smoke-tubes of the stove.

  c.  Due to, or caused by, smoke, as smoke-blackness, -nuisance, -smell, etc.

1841.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 386. Smoke nuisance in large towns.

1874.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., xxxix. 56. Golden light and song … are better than smoke-blackness.

1876.  T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 81. Sniffing extraordinary smoke-smells which she discovered in all nooks and crannies of the rooms.

  d.  With names of colors, as smoke-blue, -brown, -grey, etc. (used as sbs. or adjs.).

  London smoke: see LONDON.

1807.  Aikin, Dict. Chem. & Min., II. 98/1. Its colour is ash or smoak-grey.

1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 388. Their ordinary tint verges upon yellow, or smoke-yellow.

a. 1847.  Eliza Cook, Birds, iii. There the smoke-brown Sparrow sits.

1901.  Clive Holland, Mousmé, 284. Overhung with smoke-blue mosquito curtains.

  e.  Having the color of smoke; of a brownish or bluish grey color. Smoke quartz, smoky quartz.

1872.  E. Hull, Build. & Ornament. Stones, 175. Smoke quartz. This is a clouded variety [of rock crystal], with a brownish tint.

1884.  Western Daily Press, 11 April, 7/6. There are jackets of the finest cloth, geranium-red, electric-blue, smoke,… and brown.

1899.  Westm. Gaz., 21 Sept., 3/2. The smoke fox, a blue-grey colouring which is really dyed.

1903.  F. Simpson, Bk. Cat, xiv. 185. Perfect smoke cats … should be black, shading to smoke grey.

  10.  Comb. a. Objective, with pres. pples., adjs., agent-nouns, or nouns of action, as smoke-burner, -burning, -consumer, -consuming, -consumption, -consumptive, etc.

  Many of these have been in common use from c. 1840.

  (a)  1596.  Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 96. O let our smoake-exhalinge breaths enfold A mightie cloud of sighes.

1612.  Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Poly-olb., xi. l. 139 (1613), 166. Those foggie mists of error and smoake-selling imposture.

1842.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., V. 42. This … furnace operates not upon the smoke-preventive, but upon the smoke-consumptive principle. Ibid., 131. The … furnace is in reality a smoke-burning and not a smoke-preventing. Ibid. Some new smoke-consuming theory.

1891.  Morris, News Nowhere, 7. The soap-works with their smoke-vomiting chimneys were gone.

  (b)  1604.  Jas. I., Counterbl. to Tobacco (Arb.), 111. Of so many smoke-buyers, as are at this present in this kingdome, I neuer read nor heard.

1838.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 168. The adaptation of the patent smoke-consumer to a locomotive engine. Ibid., 344. The only effectual smoke-burner I have ever seen.

1851.  Catal. Grt. Exhib., I. 328/1. Smoke condenser.

1891.  Cent. Dict., Smoke-washer, a device for purifying smoke by washing as it passes through a chimney-flue.

  (c)  1842.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., V. 42/1. An incarnation (so to speak) of the principles of smoke-prevention.

1851.  Catal. Grt. Exhib., I. p. xcix. Apparatus for effecting Smoke-consumption.

1882.  (title) Report of the Smoke Abatement Committee.

  b.  Instrumental, with past pples., as smoke-begotten, -bleared, etc.

1872.  C. W. King, Antique Gems & Rings, 148. *Smoke-begotten theories of modern German sciolists.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. vi. A … dwarfish individual, of *smoke-bleared aspect.

1720.  Mem. W. Stukeley (Surtees), I. 157. Their painted or rather *smoak-bound hides.

1822.  Lamb, Elia, I. Distant Correspondents. Elms,… [with] *smoke-dyed barks, the theme of jesting ruralists.

1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., I. lxx. Then *smoke enrolled Their oracles break forth.

1856.  Froude, Hist. Eng. (1862), I. 463. Those streets … so black and *smoke-grimed.

1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xlii. The daily passage of so many *smoke-pennoned steam-boats.

1879.  G. J. Romanes, in 19th Cent., No. 31. 401. Amid the swarming bustle of our *smoke-smothered towns.

1833.  Tennyson, in Life (1897), I. 130. They are so *smoke-sodden.

1602.  Carew, Cornwall, 72. Alas, what my desert can iustify your abandoning my fellowship, & hanging me thus vp, to be *smoke-starued ouer your chimnies?

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., X. 429. There Fabrickes are … of *smoke-torne straw … and Raine-dropping watles.

  c.  With adjs., as smoke-like, -proof, -tight.

1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxviii. 98. We calked and pasted, and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke-tight.

1849.  Thoreau, Week Concord Riv. (1894), 4. Skirted … with alder-swamps and smoke-like maples.

1901.  Westm. Gaz., 24 Dec., 7/2. One of the firemen donned a smoke-proof suit and helmet.

  11.  Special combs.: smoke-arch U.S., the smoke-box of a locomotive (Webster, 1864); smoke-bell, -board (see quots.); smoke-glass, an eyepiece or spectacle of smoked glass; smoke helmet, a helmet used by firemen, enabling the wearer to see and breathe freely in the midst of smoke; † smoke-hen, a hen accustomed to perch in the smoke; smoke-loft, a loft in which the smoking of bacon, etc., is done; smoke-mantle, part of a furnace for roasting tin-ores; † smoke-merchant, a tobacconist; † smoke-money, money paid by householders as a due or tax (see quots. and cf. smoke-penny); smoke night, an evening meeting accompanied by smoking; smoke-pence, -penny (see quots. and smoke-money); smoke-plant, the Venetian sumach, Rhus cotinus, which has a feathery inflorescence suggestive of smoke; smoke-proof, an impression taken from a smoked type-punch, etc.; smoke respirator (see quots.); smoke-sail (see quot. 1846); † smoke-seller (see SMOKE sb. 4 f); also, a tobacconist; † smoke-shop, a tobacconist’s shop in which accommodation for smoking was provided; † smoke-silver, silver paid as smoke-money; smoke-talk U.S., a social meeting accompanied by smoking; smoke test, a method of testing the state of drains and pipes by means of smoke; smoke-tree, = smoke-plant; (also the American species Rhus cotinoides); smoke-wood (see quot.).

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 2223–4. *Smoke-bell. A glass bell suspended over a gas-light, to intercept the smoke and prevent its blackening the ceiling immediately over the jet.

1850.  Ogilvie, *Smoke-board, a board hung in front of a fireplace, to keep the smoke from emerging into the apartment.

1769.  Phil. Trans., LIX. 334. These two observers looked directly at the Sun, having their instruments armed with *smoke-glasses.

1889.  Anthony’s Photogr. Bulletin, II. 373. A pair of light-tinted smoke glasses will afford great relief.

1900.  Daily Mail, 24 April, 3/2. An officer of the brigade donned a *smoke helmet.

1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., IV. (1586), 162 b. The cause that the old people made choise in their quitrentes of *smoke Hennes, as of the best.

1657.  H. Crowch, Welch Trav., 11. Unto the *smoakloft clim’d he then, and to the Bacon crept.

1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 1246. The *smoke-mantle or chimney-hood, at the end of the furnace.

a. 1618.  *Smoke-merchant [see smoke-seller].

1662.  Petty, Taxes, 86. Of all the accumulative excises, that of hearth-money or *smoak-money seems the best.

1778.  England’s Gaz. (ed. 2), s.v. Brighthelmstone, The vicar here … claims the old episcopal custom of a penny per head (commonly called Smoak-Money, or the Garden-Penny).

1850.  N. & Q., 1st Ser. II. 120/2. Smoke Money … under this name is collected every year at Battle in Sussex.

1891.  Melbourne Punch, 2 June, 378/3. The Mutual Store *‘Smoke night’ was held at the Vienna Cafe on Thursday evening.

1584.  R. Wilson, Three Ladies London, I. B ii a.

1631.  Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 176. Parsons, and Impropriators of Churches, at this day in many places of England, are payed this pennie vnder the name of a *Smoke pennie.

1652.  Answ. Petit. Poor Husbandman, 19. The Parishioners do commonly blow away all the tithes due for firewood with a smoak penny.

1850.  N. & Q., 1st Ser. II. 174/2. Smoke pennies are also yearly levied from most of the inhabitants of the New Forest.

1856.  A. Gray, Man. Bot. (1859), 76. Sumach…. Leaves (simple in R. Cótinus, the *Smoke-Plant of gardens).

1888.  Encycl. Brit., XXIII. 699/1. The flame … blackens the letter, and thus enables an impression, called a *smoke proof, to be stamped on paper.

1902.  De Vinne, Title-pages, 79. Pleasing as a new ornament in this style might appear in the smoke-proof, it was sure to be a blotch in the print.

1866.  C. F. T. Young, Fires, Fire-Engines, etc. 44. About the year 1824 one John Roberts … invented a *‘smoke-respirator’ or hood, by means of which a fireman could enter a burning building or room.

1884.  Health Exhib. Catal., 60/1. Tyndale’s Smoke Respirators are to enable the wearer to enter into most dense and pungent smoke with perfect safety.

1805.  Naval Chron., XIII. 379. 90 yards of canvass were purchased to make her *smoke-sail.

1846.  A. Young, Naut. Dict., 288. Smoke-sail, a small sail put up for the purpose of preventing the smoke of the galley from going aft to the quarter-deck, when the ship is riding head-to-wind.

a. 1618.  Sylvester, Tobacco Battered, 812, Wks. (Grosart), II. 274. ‘Let the *Smoak-seller suffocate with Smoak’: Which our Smoak-Merchants would no lesse befit.

1649.  W. M., Wandering Jew (1857), 25. And when the miserable smoke-sellers die, how are they buried?

1798.  Sporting Mag., XII. 194. The chit-chat of a Birmingham *smoke shop.

1802.  Beddoes, Hygëia, VIII. 31. Among … the artisans that croud the smoke-shops.

1664.  Spelman, Gloss., s.v., By the payment of *Smoke Silver to the Sheriff yearlie.

1698.  in Ho. of Lords MSS. (1905), III. 257. The duty commonly called Smoak Silver, Peter Pence or Common Fine.

1893.  Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., 25 March, 2/2. The Association of Railroad and Steamboat Agents … held a *smoke-talk … last evening.

1886.  Encycl. Brit., XXI. 716. The *‘smoke test’ … consists of filling the house-drain, soil-pipes, and waste-pipes with a dense and pungent smoke.

1860.  Worcester, *Smoke-tree.

1887.  G. W. Cox, Cycl. Common Things (ed. 6), 573. The Venetian Sumach of Southern Europe is the common smoke tree or fringe tree of the gardens.

1863.  Prior, Plant-n., *Smoke-wood, from children smoking its porous stalks, Clematis vitalba.