smoke gray (smokgra)

color of moderate luminosity. luminos smoke-house (smokʼhous), n. 1. A building in which meats or fish are cured by smoking; also, one in which smoked meats are stored. The former is provided with hooks for suspending the pieces to be smoked, which are hung over a smoldering fire kindled at the bottom of the apartment. I recollected the smoke - house , an out-building appended to all Virgin i an establishments for the smoking and other kinds of meat. Irving , Crayon Papers, Ralph Ring wood. 2. In leather - manuf., a close room heated by means of a fire of spent tan, which smolders, but produces no flame. It is used for unhairing hides, which are hung up in the smoky atmosphere until incipient fermentation has softened the epidermis and the roots of the hair.