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.

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  α.  1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxvi. 120. He smorit thame with smvke [v.r. a smuik].

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 42. The reik, smeuk, and the stink of the gun puldir.

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1599.  Alex. Hume, Hymns, v. 8. The altar … is sprinkled be the Iew, He makis a smuike.

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  β.  a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 41 b. Of the fyer and smolder did ryse suche a smooke.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 159/31. Ye Smooke, fumus.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, I. xxii. Of glorie vaine to gaine an idle smooke [rhymes forsook, betooke].

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