† craccusn.
Obsolete.
‘A kind of tobacco’ (Halliwell).
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craccus1617
mavis1641
shoot-tobacco1666
funk1677
black tobacco1698
kite's-foot1788
dark leaf1829
bird's eye1834
bright leaf1834
honeydew tobacco1835
seed leaf1837
long-tails1839
honeydew1843
caporal1850
dogleg tobacco1856
dogleg1863
Boer1881
burley1881
black boy1898
snus1916
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. sig. G2 Weele Roare the rusty Rascall out of his Tobacco... I and he had the best Craccus in London.
a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnnv/1 Selling, (which is a sin unpardonable) Of counterfeit Cods, or musty English Cracus.
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