smoakie

comparative more smoakie · superlative most smoakie

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of smoky.

   [I]s it I, That driue thee from the ſportiue Court, where thou Was’t ſhot at with faire eyes, to be the marke Of ſmoakie Muskets?

   c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 242, column 1

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   And let thy muſtie vapours march ſo thicke, That in their ſmoakie rankes, his ſmothred light May ſet at noone, and make perpetuall night.

   1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature F3, verso

   [T]o make amends ſince, he hath kneaded and daub’d up a commedie, called The Transformation of the King of Trinidadoes two Daughters, Madame Panachea and the Nymphe Tobacco: And to approue his Heraldrie, ſcutchend out the honorable Armes of the ſmoakie ſocietie.

   1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 118

   Some ſate turning of ſpittes; and the place being all ſmoakie, made me thinke on hell, foꝛ the ioynts of meate lay as if they had béene bꝛoyling in the infernall fire, […]

   1608, [Thomas Dekker], “Discouering the Most Notable Villanies Now in the Kingdome”, in The Belman of London. […], London: […] [Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, signature B3, verso

   Shepheard I take thy word, And truſt thy honeſt offer’d courteſie, Which oft is ſooner found in lowly ſheds With ſmoakie rafters, then in tapſtrie halls, And courts of Princes, […]

   Comus

   1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 12