transitive. To smoke (a pipe) in a manner humorously compared to playing on a bagpipe. Obsolete.

An inhalation of tobacco-smoke; smoke so inhaled; in early use also, †the ‘taking’ of tobacco, smoking (to take the whiff, to smoke).

transitive. To puff out tobacco-smoke from a pipe, etc.; hence, to smoke. (With the smoke or the pipe, etc. as object.) Also figurative.

intransitive. Of a person: to take puffs at, on, or †with a pipe, cigar, cigarette, etc.; to smoke. Also transitive: to draw on, to smoke (a pipe…

To use (a pipe, cigar, etc.) in the act of smoking; to take (so many whiffs).

transitive. To puff (a tobacco-pipe). Also, to send out (steam) with a fuff.

To smoke (tobacco); also intransitive (dialect) But to blow a cloud is a common figurative expression for to smoke a pipe. See also cloud, n. 5b.

slang. To smoke (tobacco). Cf. burn, n.3 1e.

transitive. To smoke (a cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.); to puff. Also intransitive with on.