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A suffocating smoke.

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  1. n. A suffocating smoke.
  2. n. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
  3. n. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
  4. v. t. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
  5. v. t. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
  6. n. a smoky fire to drive away insects
  7. n. a blemish made by dirt
  8. v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
  9. 1. A suffocating smoke. Grose. 2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett. 3. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear. 1. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge. 2. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
  10. v:46/n:54 n. a smoky fire to drive away insects n. a blemish made by dirt