2. Verb. (third-person singular of smoke) ¹
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Definition of Smokes
1. smoke [v] - See also: smoke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smokes
Literary usage of Smokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"CHAPTER XIX SIGNAL smokes The success of pyrotechnics in night signalling led,
... This was mainly directed to the production of distinctive smokes, ..."
2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"ing it in his mouth in his cabin on the deteriorated like motor car tires;
they 'The pipe he smokes?' I asked, have, like millions of other things, ..."
3. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1913)
"Know now that death Is but a blind, false door that nowhere leads, And gives no
hope of exit final, free. WHEN THE OLD MAN smokes IN the ..."
4. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... and made a great many smokes of pitch, of gunpowder, and of sulphur ; all
separately shifted,4 and washed their clothes, and the like. ..."
5. The Craft of Hand-made Rugs by Ami Mali Hicks (1914)
"Candle is only a generic term, for there are candles and dips, likewise "long
smokes" and "short smokes," each of which is put to a special and particular ..."
6. Chemistry of Familiar Things by Samuel Schmucker Sadtler (1920)
"The "Valley of Ten Thousand smokes" in Alaska is a volcanic manifestation.
Water trickles into superheated crevices and emerges at the surface as steam jets ..."
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