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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smoking \Smok"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Smoke}.
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     {Smoking bean} (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or
        Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for


        cigars.
  
     {Smoking car}, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of
        passengers who smoke tobacco.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smoke \Smoke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smoked}; p. pr. & vb n.
     {Smoking}.] [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen,
     Dan. sm["o]ge. See {Smoke}, n.]
     1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of
        vapor or exhalation; to reek.
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              Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.     --Milton.
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     2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
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              The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke
              agains. that man.                     --Deut. xxix.
                                                    20.
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     3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
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              Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a
        pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to
        habitually use tobacco in this manner.
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     5. To suffer severely; to be punished.
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              Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  smoking
       adj : emitting smoke in great volume; "a smoking fireplace"
       n 1: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went
            outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" [syn: {smoke}]
       2: a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being
          produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of
          black smoke that could be seen for miles" [syn: {smoke}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "smoking":
     ablaze, aeration, aerial, aerification, aerodynamic, aerostatic,
     aery, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, airy, alight, anhydration,
     ardent, atomization, blast-freezing, blazing, bottling, brining,
     burning, candent, candescent, canning, chain-smoke, chewing,
     comburent, conflagrant, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation,
     distillation, drag, dry-curing, drying, embalming, ethereal,
     etherealization, etherification, evaporation, exhalation, flagrant,
     flaming, flaring, flickering, fluidization, fractionation,
     freeze-drying, freezing, fumigation, fuming, fumy, gaseous,
     gasification, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing,
     guttering, habitual smoking, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze,
     in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, irradiation, jerking,
     kindled, live, living, marination, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic,
     miasmic, mummification, nicotine addiction, nicotinic, nicotinism,
     on fire, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pickling, pneumatic,
     potting, puff, quick-freezing, reeking, reeky, refrigeration,
     salting, scintillant, scintillating, seasoning, smoke,
     smoking habit, smoky, smoldering, snuffy, sparking, steaming,
     steamy, stuffing, sublimation, tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism,
     taxidermy, tinning, tobacco, tobaccoism, tobaccolike, tobaccoy,
     unextinguished, unquenched, vaporing, vaporish, vaporization,
     vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, volatilization
  
  

















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