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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 shrub of southern Europe. The brier's woody root 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 thin, tight roll of tobacco leaves prepared for smoking. |
cigarette |
a short, narrow tube of thin paper that contains cut 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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