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Definition of Besmoke
1. v. t. To foul with smoke.
Definition of Besmoke
1. Verb. (transitive) To fill with smoke; act on with smoke; fumigate. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To befoul with smoke. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To harden or dry in smoke. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Besmoke
1. to soil with smoke [v -SMOKED, -SMOKING, -SMOKES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besmoke
Literary usage of Besmoke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"One volley crashes from their line, when, through the surging wind — Their bayonets
the breakers' foam; like rocks, the men besmoke, With empty guns ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Dickens, V»commercial Traveller, iii. besmoke, to tinge with smoke. They burn up
rapidly, and from within there rises by machinery an ..."
3. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"... one's self with tobacco- juice ; to so besmoke one's clothes that a man can
be scented as far off as a whale-ship can be smelt at sea. ..."
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