smock mill (smokmil)

A form of windmill of which the mill-house is fixed and the cap only turns round as the wind varies. It thus differs from the post-mill, of which the whole fabric is movable round a vertical axis. It is also called the Dutch mill, as being that most commonly employed in the Netherlands for pumping. smock-race (smok'rās), n. A race for which a smock is the prize. Smock Races are commonly performed by the young country wenches, and so called because the prize is a holland smock, or shift, usually decorated with ribbands. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 476. smock-racing (smok'rā"sing), n . The running of a smock-race or of smock-races. Among other amusements, smock - racing by women was kept up there [Pall Mall] till 1733. Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., iv. smokable (smō'ka-bl), a . [ smoke + -able .] Capable of being smoked. smoke (smok), v.; pret. and pp. smoked, ppr. smoking. [Formerly also smoak; Dryden, Æneid, vii. 909. 4. To smell or hunt something out; suspect something; perceive perceive a hidden fact or meaning. [Now only colloq.] -5. To permit the pa age of smoke outward instead of drawing it upward; send out smoke for want of sufficient draft: said of chimneys, stoves, etc. When, in obedience to our instructions, a fire was lighted, the chimney smoked so badly that we had to throw open door and windows, and to sit, as it were, in the open air. D. Christie Murray, Weaker Ve el, xxxix. 6. To draw fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like, into, and emit them from, the mouth; use tobacco or opium in this manner. I hate married women! Do they not hate me, and, sim ply because I smoke, try to draw their husbands away from my society? Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confe ions. 7. To suffer as from overwork or hard treatment; be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Shak ., Tit. And., iv. 2. 111. 8. To emit dust, as when beaten. At every stroke their jackets did smoke . Robin Hood and the Ranger (Child's Ballads, V. 209). Smoking salts. See salt1 . II. trans. 1. To apply smoke to; blacken with smoke; hang in smoke; smoke; medicate or dry by smoke; fumigate: as, to smoke infected clothng; to subject to the action of smoke, as meat; cure by means of smoke; smoke-dry; also, to incense. Smoking meat consists in exposing meat previously salted, or rubbed over with salt, to wood-smoke in an apartment so distant from the fire as not to be unduly heated by it, the smoke being admitted by flues at the bottom of the side walls. Here the meat absorbs the empyreumatic acid of the smoke, and is dried at the same time. The kind of wood used affects the quality and taste of the meat, smoke from beech and oak being preferable to that from fir and larch. Smoke from the twigs and berries of juniper, or from rosemary, peppermint, etc., imparts somewhat of the aromatic flavor of these plants. A slow smoking with a slender fire is better than a quick and hot one, as it allows the empyreumatic principles time to penetrate into the interior without over-drying the outside. Smokyng the temple. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1423. Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty room, comes me the prince. Shak ., Much Ado, i. 3. 60. IMG:content-1369.png:[blocks in formation] Tennyson, Holy Grail. 3. To draw smoke from into the mouth and puff it out; also, to burn or use in smoking; inhale the smoke of: as, to smoke tobacco or opium; to smoke a pipe or a cigar. Here would he smoke his pipe of a sultry afternoon, enjoying the soft southern breeze. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 160. 4. To smell out; find out; scent; perceive; perceive the meaning of; suspect. [Archaic.] i I'll hang you both, you rascals! you for the purse you cut In Paul's at a sermon; I have smoaked you, ha! Mas singer , City Madam, iii. 1. It must be a very plausive invention that carries it; they begin to smoke me. Shak ., All's Well, iv. 1. 30. 51. To sneer at; quiz; ridicule to one's face. This is a vile dog; I see that already. No offence! Ha, ha, ha! to him; to him, Petulant; smoke him. Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 15. Pray, madam, smoke mi yonder biting her lips, and playing with her fan. Swift , Polite Conversation, i. Why, you know you never laugh at the old folks, and never fly at your servants, nor smoke people before their faces. Mi Burney , Cecilia, vi. 11. 6. To raise dust from by beating; "dust": as, I'll smoke his jacket for him. [Colloq.] I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right. Shak ., K. John, ii. 1. 139. Smoked pearl. See pearl .