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| antitobacco |
combined form of tobacco. |
| ashtray |
a container for tobacco ashes. |
| benzoic acid |
a white crystalline powder used as a preservative and antiseptic in perfumes and flavorings, in synthesizing dyes, and to season tobacco. |
| brier2 |
a white heath of southern Europe, the woody root of which is used in making tobacco pipes. |
| brierroot |
the woody root of the brier or other woods used to make tobacco pipes. [2 definitions] |
| burley |
(often cap.) a low-nicotine, light-colored tobacco grown chiefly in Kentucky. |
| calumet |
a long-stemmed, decorated tobacco pipe used by North American Indians in ceremonies, esp. promoting peace and friendship; peace pipe. |
| chew |
something for chewing, esp. a plug of tobacco. [1/6 definitions] |
| cigar |
a slender, tight roll of cured tobacco leaves prepared for smoking. |
| cigarette |
a short, narrow tube of thin paper containing finely cut, cured tobacco for smoking. |
| cold turkey |
(informal) abrupt and total withdrawal from using an addictive substance such as a drug or tobacco. [1/3 definitions] |
| corncob |
a tobacco pipe having a bowl made by hollowing out a dried section of a corncob; corncob pipe. [1/2 definitions] |
| corncob pipe |
a tobacco pipe with a bowl made of a hollow, dried corncob. |
| cure |
the act or a method of preserving food, tobacco, or the like, as by salting, smoking, or drying. [3/7 definitions] |
| dottle |
the residue of partially burnt tobacco or ash left in a pipe bowl after smoking. |
| Dutchman's-pipe |
a hardy climbing vine having curved leaves and bearing brownish or purplish flowers resembling a tobacco pipe. |
| glucose |
a syrup consisting of dextrose, maltose, dextrine, and water, used in making candy, fermenting alcohol, treating tobacco, and tanning leather; starch syrup. [1/2 definitions] |
| humidor |
a container or room used to store cigars or tobacco at the proper level of humidity. |
| Indian pipe |
an almost leafless waxy white plant, related to heath, that lives on decayed organic matter, bears a single white flower on each stalk, and looks like a tobacco pipe. |
| inhale |
to draw tobacco smoke into the lungs while smoking. [1/3 definitions] |
| kinnikinick |
a mixture of dried leaves, bark, and sometimes tobacco, formerly smoked by American Indians and pioneers. |
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