Sc. and north. Now rare. Also 6 smooke; Sc. smowk, smuke, smuik(e, smeuk, smewk. [prob. ad. older Flem. smuik (Kilian smuyck): cf. next.] Smoke, reek, vapor.
α. 150020. Dunbar, Poems, xxvi. 120. He smorit thame with smvke [v.r. a smuik].
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 42. The reik, smeuk, and the stink of the gun puldir.
1599. Alex. Hume, Hymns, v. 8. The altar is sprinkled be the Iew, He makis a smuike.
β. a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 41 b. Of the fyer and smolder did ryse suche a smooke.
1570. Levins, Manip., 159/31. Ye Smooke, fumus.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, I. xxii. Of glorie vaine to gaine an idle smooke [rhymes forsook, betooke].