v. Forms: 4–5 bysmoke, 5 bismoke, 6–9 besmoak, 7 besmoake, 6– besmoke. [f. BE- 4 + SMOKE v.] trans. To fill with smoke, to act on with smoke, to fumigate.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. liii. (1495), 813. Yf a man bismokith the hous of the ampte wyth brymstoon.

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1574.  Hyll, Bees, xv. Besmoke the hive with flaxe.

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1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas (1608), 1133. Mists of Rome, That have so long besmoaked Christendom.

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1611.  Florio, Affumare, to besmoake, to drie in the smoake as bacon.

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1823.  W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., LVI. 126. They besmoak us with a disgusting mixture of sacrifice and frankincense.

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  Hence Besmoked ppl. a., Besmoking vbl. sb.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., 5. It is wont to dirken by-smoked ymages.

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1611.  Cotgr., Enfumement, a smoaking, a besmoaking.

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1854.  Dickens, Hard Times, xxii. (D.). The besmoked evergreens were sprinkled with a dirty powder.

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