Tobacco
[tə'bækəʊ] or [tə'bæko]
Definition
(noun.) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
(noun.) aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs.
Edited by Cary--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Editor: Mervin
Definition
n. a plant of genus Nicotiana order Solanace esp. one of several species the most generally cultivated being the stately Nicotiana Tabacum a native of America—the dried leaves used for the sedative effects for smoking in pipes &c. and also in the form of snuff.—ns. Tobaccanā′lian a smoker; Tobacc′o-heart a functional disorder of the heart due to excessive use of tobacco; Tobacc′onist one who sells or manufactures tobacco; Tobacc′o-pipe a pipe used for smoking tobacco; Tobacc′o-pouch a small pouch for holding tobacco; Tobacc′o-stop′per an instrument for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe.
Typed by Floyd
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of tobacco, denotes success in business affairs, but poor returns in love. To use it, warns you against enemies and extravagance. To see it growing, foretells successful enterprises. To see it dry in the leaf, ensures good crops to farmers, and consequent gain to tradesmen. To smoke tobacco, denotes amiable friendships.
Inputed by Davis
Unserious Contents or Definition
A nauseating plant that is consumed by but two creatures; a large, green worm and—man. The worm doesn't know any better.
Checker: Spenser
Examples
- The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I never smoke myself, so I think I should have observed it if there had been any smell of tobacco. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On these trains I employed a boy who sold bread, tobacco, and stick candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Never smoke any Italian tobacco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tobacco and my work--that is all that is left to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ah, a scent of tobacco would have been worth a great deal to us in such an investigation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of the old gentleman, unshorn and perfumed with tobacco, might well do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yet, the smell of a _Yahoo_ continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Miss Bart caught the startled glance of Mr. Percy Gryce, whose own lips were never defiled by tobacco. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edited by Bradley