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smoking(e ger. (a) The emission of smoke,smoke;smoke from burning incense; -- used fig. ; also, a medical treatment involving burning a powder on coals; (b) the emission of vapor, steam, or fumes; steam, vapor; oute , physiol. escaping

bismoken v. From smoke n. (a) To treat (sth.) with smoke or fumes; fumigate; (b) bismoked , darkened with smoke, sooty. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 263b/a If þou bysmokest an hows wiþ þe longen of an asse, þou clensest

-ionis & OF submersion . (a) Suffocation by being plunged into water or smoke; (b) swallowing. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 5b/b Of falling & offensioun, i. hurtyng; of distencioun & submersioun, i. drenching. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 117a/a Off fallyng

smoke, smolder; also fig. ; up , to billow, rise, spread; -- used fig. ; ppl. smokinge , emitting smoke, smoldering; also fig. ; (b) to expose (sb.) to smoke as a means of torture; expose (sb., oneself) to

& most of indigestioun. c1450 Med.Bk.(1) Med-L 136 134/364 Analempsie is the thrid maner of fallynge, and it comyth of a smoke that risith vp in to þe hede fro eny partye of a mannes body that hath bene hurte.

c1400(?c1380) Cleanness Nero A.10 954 Þe rayn rueled adoun, ridlande þikke, Of felle flaunkes of fyr and flakes of soufre, Al in smolderande smoke smachande ful ille. a1425 PPl.C Lond-U V.88 7.335 fn. Flonke [Hnt: as a fonk of fuyr].

a1425(a1400) PConsc. Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196 6112 Men may calle þat day..Þe day of flaying and of af[r]ay, Þe day of departyng fra God away. a1500 Mirror Salv. Beeleigh p.99 In the first..is smoke and fire..horroure and flaying terrible.

Add 27944 132a/b ȝif a mere in trauayle of folynge smelliþ suche a smoke, sche schal fole a deed colte. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 285b/a In tyme of folynge sche [elephant] feedeþ and norissheþ hire fole in watres and

damp , MHG dampf vapor, smoke. In a coal mine: the choke-damp or fire-damp. (1316) MSS Middleton in HMC 88 Ricardus concessit..minam suam de carbone marino..operare poterint, nisi impediti fuerint propter inundacionem aque vel ventu[m], qui vocatur le dampe. (1390)

is I gendrid [L color discolor generatur], as it is I seye in a reed roose þat waxiþ white in þe smoke of brimston. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944 307a/b Sodeyn palenes and discolour [L discoloratio] is tokne of drede.

p.119 head. The Drownyng of Pollux & Castor. 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl. Hrl 2124 57/227 For feare of drowning I am agast. ?a1425 Chauliac(1) NY 12 117a/a Submercioun i. drownyng..i. drenching is..skoknyng [?read: chokyng] of fume i. smoke or of water.

palpitationis], i. stirryng, after Auicen. c1450 Med.Bk.(1) Med-L 136 188/589 For the suffocacion of the modir, lat hir receyue þe smoke of turpentyne laid upon the coles þorow hir mouth; for p'apitacion of the modir, lat hir receyue it beneyth

(b) an exclamation of annoyance. a1300 Satire in Camd.16 Dgb 53 p.xliv Eructitando inchoat, `Laudate Dominum, puf, omnis gens, laudate, puf, et omnis spiritus laudet, puf.' a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl. Hnt HM 1 17/277 Puf! this smoke dos me mych shame.

Cp. rẹken v.(3). Smoke, vapor; peni , a tax levied on every house with a fireplace. (1401-2) Acc.R.Dur. in Sur.Soc.103 603 De 5 s. 6 d. de Rekyngpenys de Wyuestowe, Harton, et Scheles. ?c1475 Cath.Angl. Add 15562 103a Rekynge: fumositas,

Such. c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy Htrn 388 3513 A! Sory Sytizins, sendis you fro The smoke & smorther, þat smytes to dethe, Qwyle ye lawfully lefe may & your lyf haue; Þoche dole ho dregh with mony depe terys. c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy Htrn

(a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944:Seymour 1066/6 Of thus ysette afuyre comeþ wel smellynge smoke schape as a ȝerde and smale byneþe and swithe meuable and wendynge and croked wiþ many bendynges and wrallyngis. (a1398) Trev. Barth. Add 27944:Seymour 1152/14 He

Corp-C 444 754 For mannes sinne ðus it is went, brent wið brimfir. a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex. Corp-C 444 1110 Brend-fier-rein ðe burge bi-nam. a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex. Corp-C 444 1164 To-ward sodome he sag ðe roke And ðe brinfires stinken smoke.

smorian , p. smorode . (a) To suffocate (sb.), smother; to (o) deth ; (b) to suffocate (sb.) with smoke; in smoke , with smeke ; (c) to destroy (sb.) in a rout, trample; (d) to destroy (sb. or sth.);

little cottage, hut; (c) a housing for a sacred image; (d)?a roofed passage or roof-like hood for the escape of smoke. (1435) Doc. in Rec.B.Nottingham 2 357 A garthyn with a hovell on it. (1440) PParv. Hrl 221 250 Hovyl

also cp. MDu. roke , rooc(k . (a) A mist, vapor; drizzling rain; (b) smoke, fumes; (c) peni, = reke-peni , s.v. rek(e n.(3)(d). c1330(?c1300) Bevis Auch 125/2647 Eueri seue ȝer ones..comeþ a roke & a stink Out of þe

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