n. That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things. “Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm.” The Century.

A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.

a. [See Fumatorium.] Pert. to, or concerned with, smoking. - - n.; pl. -ries . A place for subjecting things to smoke or vapor.

n.; L. pl. -ria (#). [NL., fr. L. fumare, fumatum, to smoke.] An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San Jose scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.

v. t. [F. boucaner. See Buccaneer.] To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.

(yok), n. [OE. yok, &yogh;oc, AS. geoc; akin to D. juk, OHG. joh, G. joch, Icel. & Sw. ok, Dan. aag, Goth. juk, Lith. jungas, Russ. igo, L. jugum, Gr. zy•gon, Skr. yuga, and to L. jungere to join, Gr. , Skr. yui. rad.109, 280. Cf. Join, Jougs, Joust, Jugular, Subjugate, Syzygy, Yuga, Zeugma.] 
1. A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together. “A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke,
Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke.” Pope. The modern yoke for oxen is usually a piece of timber hollowed, or made curving, near each end, and laid on the necks of the oxen, being secured in place by two bows, one inclosing each neck, and fastened through the timber. In some countries the yoke consists of a flat piece of wood fastened to the foreheads of the oxen by thongs about the horns. 
2. A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape. Specifically: (a) A frame of wood fitted to a person’s shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as a milkmaid’s yoke. (b) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence. (c) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell. (d) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat’s rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships. (e) (Mach.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts. (f) (Arch.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain. (g) (Dressmaking) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt. 
3. Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection. “Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke …
Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.” Chaucer. “This yoke of marriage from us both remove.” Dryden. 
4. A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service. “Our country sinks beneath the yoke.” Shak. “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matt. xi. 30. 
5. Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together. “I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them.” Luke xiv. 19. 
6. The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. [Obs.] Gardner. 
7. A portion of the working day; as to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Neck yoke, Pig yoke. See under Neck, and Pig. — Yoke elm (Bot.), the European hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus), a small tree with tough white wood, often used for making yokes for cattle.

a. Being a year old. ´A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke.´ Pope.

( 277), n.; pl. Wreaths (#). [OE. wrethe, AS. wraeð a twisted band, fr. wriðan to twist. See Writhe.] 
1. Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. ´A wrethe of gold.´ Chaucer. “[He] of his tortuous train
Curled many a wanton wreath.” Milton. 
2. A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor. “Conquest doth grant
He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant.” Chapman. “Far back in the ages,
The plow with wreaths was crowned.” Bryant. 
3. (Her.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.

n. [From the Algonquin or Massachusetts Indian word wek, ´his house,´ or ´dwelling place;´ with possessive and locative affixes, we-kou-om-ut, ´in his (or their) house,´ contracted by the English to weekwam, and wigwam.] An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; — called also tepee. [Sometimes written also weekwam.] “Very spacious was the wigwam,
Made of deerskin dressed and whitened,
With the gods of the Dacotahs
Drawn and painted on its curtains.” Longfellow. ´The wigwam, or Indian house, of a circular or oval shape, was made of bark or mats laid over a framework of branches of trees stuck in the ground in such a manner as to converge at the top, where was a central aperture for the escape of smoke from the fire beneath. The better sort had also a lining of mats. For entrance and egress, two low openings were left on opposite sides, one or the other of which was closed with bark or mats, according to the direction of the wind.´ Palfrey.

n. [Abbreviation from periwig.] 
1. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers. 
2. An old seal; — so called by fishermen. Wig tree. (Bot.) See Smoke tree, under Smoke.