[f. SMOKE v.]
1. Emitting or giving out smoke.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. metr. iv. (1868), 12. Þe vnstable mountaigne þat hyȝt veseuus, þat wircheþ oute … smokyng fires.
1382. Wyclif, Matt. xii. 20. He shal nat quenche smokynge flax.
c. 1400. Pilgr. Sowle, III. vii. (Caxton, 1483), 55. The forneis was al enflammed with smokyng fyre.
1592. Kyd, Sp. Trag., I. i. Ere Sol had … slakte his smoaking charriot in her floud.
1611. Cotgr., Fumeau, a brand, or smoaking sticke.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 7 Sept. 1666. Clambering over heaps of yet smoking rubbish.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xxx. (1787), III. 171. The prospect of the smoking ruins.
1815. Scott, Guy M., viii. This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths.
1894. Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, 93. The chaplain stood with a smoking pistol in his hand.
fig. 1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 331. Lanfrank … despisede þe smokynge … speche of mysbyleved men.
1587. Greene, Euphues, Wks. (Grosart), VI. 176. Hir heart offred smoaking thoughtes to Venus.
1677. W. Row, Suppl. Life R. Blair (1848), x. 171. Our smoking desires for a more strict union … did break forth into a vehement flame.
b. Of a chimney: = SMOKY a. 1 b.
1667. Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 482. I have been troubled with smoking chimneys.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., 77. A House with Smoaking Chimneys.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Smoak, There are various Inventions for preventing and curing Smoaking Chimneys.
2. Giving out steam or vapor, sending up fine dust or spray, etc.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. iii. 21. Their Steeds, That stain’d their Fetlockes in his smoaking blood. Ibid. (1607), Cor., I. iv. 11. That we with smoaking swords may march from hence.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 794. ’Tis Time to set at Ease the smoaking Horse.
1716. Pope, Iliad, VII. 382. The victim falls; they strip the smoaking hide.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 517. The smoaking manure.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, li. They have hot suppers every night,… with smoking drinks upon the board.
1888. Stevenson, Black Arrow, 184. The Good Hope continued to tear through the smoking waves.
b. quasi-adv. in smoking-hot.
1816. Keatinge, Trav. (1817), I. 219. The paunch of a goat (well fed) cut out, and applied with all its contents, smoking hot, to the part affected.
1842. S. Lover, Handy Andy, xxi. Where tea and coffee, toast and muffins,… were all smoking-hot together.
3. Characterized by, addicted to, the smoking of tobacco. Also transf. and absol.
1617. Brathwait (title), The Smoaking Age, or, The man in the mist: with The life and death of Tobacco. Ibid., 174. More guerdon doe I receive of my love from the sleeping Dormouse, than the smoaking Gallants.
1888. G. Trumbull, Birds, 21. [The Widgeon is] known to voyageurs throughout the Fur Countries as Smoking-Duck. [Note.] Probably because its note was thought to resemble the puffing sound made while smoking.
1890. Pall Mall Gaz., 29 Sept., 3/3. The lazy, the drunken, the smoking, the thriftless.
Hence Smokingly adv., smokily.
1825. Lady Granville, Lett. (1894), I. 334. I told you she was uncomfortably, smokingly lodged.
