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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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(Smuke,) Smook(e, Smoke, Smeke, v. Also: smoik, smoak(e, smeik. [ME and e.m.E. smoke(n (c1154), ME also smokien (Layamon), smeke(n (c1325), smekyn, smokyn (both Prompt. Parv.), e.m.E. also smooke (1570), smoake (1595), OE smocian (f. smoca n.), sméocan, smécan, smícan, MDu. smoken, smieken (rare), Flem. smuiken (Kilian smuucken, smuycken).]See note on spellings at Smuk(e n.

1. To cause (a person) discomfort or suffocation by exposure to smoke, to smoke to (the) death; to drive out with smoke. b. specif. Of bees: To repel with smoke.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xlix 111.
I haf … Eschapit the fire that ves dycht To bryne me, to brule & smeke, [: seke] 1604-31 Craig i 14.
Take Turinus, and smooke him to the death 1623 Perth Kirk S. MS 22 Dec.
That laich hous … wantis ane chymnay and the burning of ingle into it smoikis Mr. Wm. Rynd and abuseis his hous 1674 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. IV 215.
They … covered the chimney heads of new againe, almost smooking them to death(2) 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 295.
The haill houssis wes … brunt, to haue smokit the men of the dungeoun out a1686 Turner Mem. 46.
A hundreth countrey fellows whom we had smoaked out of a caveb. 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 25.
If they do those serpents choak [sc. with incense] As easterlings their bees do smoak 1691 Foulis Acc. Bk. 139.
For 2 unce brimston to smeik the 4 beeskeps

2. To expose (a place) to the smoke of a purifying or aromatic substance; to fumigate. 1513 Doug. xi ix 88.
The matronys … smokis the tempill with sweit vapour and sens 1699 Anal. Scot. I 356.
We … wash betwixt decks with vinegar, and then smoaked to prevent future sickness

3. To smoke (tobacco, a pipe). b. To smoke (oneself) to death with (tobacco). 1639 Tayler Hist. Fam. Urquhart 41.
Sum drinking, and sum smoaking tabacca 1690 Argyle P. 46.
Then I went to a coffee house and smoak'd a pipeb. 1604 James VI Tobacco 93/34.
If a man smoke himselfe to death with it [sc. tobacco] [etc.]

4. intr. To give off smoke or fumes. Only fig.: Cf. Smuking vbl. n. (3) for lit. examples. 1649 Fugitive Poetry II xxiii 2/29.
These coasts Which smoake with his hot blood, who gave Thee breath 1660 Conv. Burghs III 507.
God whos anger hath so long smoaked at the prayeris of his people