tobacco

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He handed it to me and struck a match and held it to the bowl When the tobacco was alight he took another pipe and began smoking also I had not smoked for days, and I inhaled the rank tobacco-fumes through the old pipe gratefully.

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  1. noun Any of various plants of the genus Nicotiana, especially N. tabacum, native to tropical America and widely cultivated for their leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.
  2. noun The leaves of these plants, dried and processed chiefly for use in cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or for smoking in pipes.
  3. noun Products made from these plants.
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  • He talked English with no further accent than served to add a raciness to the flavour of his conversation; and every morning of one fixed day in the week he used to come to Ricorboli for what he called a tobacco parliament. —  What I Remember, Volume 2
  • It is true that the narrator apologized for Don Pedro, by saying, that to deny a Castilian fire for his tobacco was the gravest insult that can be offered him; yet, from my knowledge of the person in question, I cannot believe that he carried etiquette to so frightful a pitch, even among a class whose lives are considered of trifling value except in market . —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, by Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot.
  • "Regulating tobacco is the single most important thing that we can do right now to curb the deadly toll of tobacco, and FDA is the right agency to do the job" said Representative —  Top Stories - Google News
  • If you find that hookah smoking is something you enjoy rather much investing in a hookah pipe and shisha tobacco is a very cheap considering the cost of smoking at a hookah cafe. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • He wants to pay for it by raising taxes on certain smokeless tobacco, which is now taxed by price. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
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  1. Spanish tabaco, possibly of Caribbean origin.

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  1. Formerly also tabacco, tabaco, tobacca; =F. tabac (not in Cotgrave, 1611, who gives only petum and nicotiane), sometimes tobac =Italian tabaco (1578), tobacco (1598) =D. taback (1659), now tabak =G. tabak =Danish Swedish tobak =Bohemian tabak =Polish tabaka =Russian tabakŭ =Arabic tobagh (the usual Arabic name being different, tutun, toton, Persian tūtan, Turkish to tūn, later Polish tytun) =New Greek ταμπάκος, ταμπάον, =Persian Hindustani tambākū (of. Persian tumbeki, Turkish tunbeki) =Chinese tambako, tambaku =Jap, tabako (from English) (New Latin tabacca (Camden, 1585), tabacum (Lobel, 1576: Bauhin, 1596)); from Spanish tabaco, formerly also tabacco =Portuguese tabaco, from West Indian (Haytian or Caribbean) *tabacco or *tabaco, of uncertain meaning, conflicting accounts being given: (a) According to Charlevoix, in his “History of St. Dominique,” the pipe used by the Indians in smoking was called tabaco. (b) According to Las Casas, the Spaniards in the first voyage of Columbus saw the Indians in Cuba smoking dry herbs or leaves rolled up in tubes called tabacos. (c) According to Clavigero, the word was one of the native names of the plant, namely the Haytian (cf. the quot. from Hakluyt). (d) According to Bauhin (1596) and Minsheu (1617), etc., tobacco was so called from an island of the same name, now called Tobago, near Trinidad (cf. trinidado, a former name of tobacco). (e) In another view, it was so called from Tabaco, said to be a province of Yucatan. (f) Other Indian names were uppowoc (see quot. from Hakluyt), picietl(Clavigero; Stevens, 1706), picielt (Bauhin, 1596), peicielt, or pilclet (Minsheu, 1617), petum or petun (a South American term) (see petun), tomabona, perebecenuc (Bauhin, 1596), etc. In Europe it was also called nicotian, queen's herb (French l'herbe de la royne), etc.: see nicotian.
 

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