SMOKE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smoca; akin to Old English smēocan to emit ~, Middle High German smouch ~, and probably to Greek smychein to smolder Date: before 12th century 1. the gaseous products of burning materials especially of organic origin made visible by the presence of small particles of carbon, a suspension of particles in a gas, 2. a mass or column of ~, smudge , fume or vapor often resulting from the action of heat on moisture, something of little substance, permanence, or value, something that obscures, 6. a. something (as a cigarette) to ~, marijuana 2, an act of smoking tobacco, 7. a pale blue, any of the colors of ~, pitches that are fastballs , ~less adjective ~like adjective II. verb (~d; smoking) Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to emit or exhale ~, to emit excessive ~, to undergo punishment ; suffer , to spread or rise like ~, to inhale and exhale the fumes of burning plant material and especially tobacco, transitive verb 1. fumigate , to drive (as mosquitoes) away by ~, to blacken or discolor with ~ , to cure by exposure to ~ , to stupefy (as bees) by ~, suspect , to inhale and exhale the ~ of , ridicule , kill 1a, to defeat or surpass decisively, to hit (as a baseball) with great force