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asmoke

asmoke adjective: smoking; giving off steam or fog.

Adjective

asmoke (not comparable)

  1. Smoking; giving off steam or fog.
    • It appeareth to me that even to praise one’s-self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke.1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare […] Touching Dear-Steeling, London: Saunders and Otley, page 63
    • […] there was a smooth and shining lake, the chill waters whereof were all asmoke in the gentle warmth of the newly risen sun.1907, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Lancelot and His Companions, New York: Scribner, Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 312

Origin of asmoke

From a- + smoke.

Questions about asmoke

What does asmoke mean?
Asmoke means smoking; giving off steam or fog.
What part of speech is asmoke?
Asmoke is an adjective.

Words near asmoke in the dictionary

  1. Asmeret
  2. asmile
  3. Asmodean
  4. Asmodeus
  5. Asmodæus
  6. asmoke
  7. asmolder
  8. Asmonaean
  9. Asmonaeans
  10. Asmonean
  11. Asmoneans

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