smokelessadj.
/ˈsməʊklɪs/ 1. Emitting or producing no smoke.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective] > not dirtying > with specific kinds of dirt
unsmoking1559
smokeless1582
unsmoky1673
1582 T. Watson Poems (Arb.) 134 A Shipwracke of mans life; a Smoaklesse fire.
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 11 Tenants with sighs the smoakless Tow'rs survey.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 311 The smokeless chimney-top. View more context for this quotation
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 405 The lamps were cheerful and smokeless.
1868 Daily News 2 Sept. It was found that the coals of the Aberdare collieries were comparatively smokeless.
1890 Nature 4 Sept. One of the important attributes of a smokeless powder.
1904 Sci. Amer. 4 June 446/3 Smokeless fuel,..Mr. Weeple employs a simple method of treating such carbonaceous substances as bituminous coal, coal-dust, oil residue, and the like as will produce a fuel that will burn free from ‘black smoke’ during combustion.
1935 Economist 29 June 1479/1 The main product of low-temperature carbonisation is a smokeless solid fuel.
1977 M. Russell Mr T xviii. 145 A fireplace..in which smokeless fuel glowed.
2. Free from, clear of, smoke. smokeless zone, a district in which the creation of smoke is forbidden by law.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective] > free from specific kinds of dirt
unbepissedc1540
unbloody1594
ungored1606
motherless1607
unbloodieda1616
dustlessa1618
unpuddleda1618
unlimed1621
unmudded1625
smokeless1631
unpitched1634
undusted1648
cobweblessa1661
slimeless1672
unsmokified1693
unmiry1716
unmildewed1775
unblooded1785
unstercorated1821
moteless1869
scumless1881
smearless1885
sootless1890
unsmoked1890
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [noun] > pollution control > smokeless zone
smokeless zone1953
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > area where smoke is forbidden
smokeless zone1953
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies x. 76 To leave his smoaklesse house in the Countrey..to riot in the Citie.
1802 W. Wordsworth Composed upon Westm. Bridge 8 All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. ii. 21 The Sun shines; serenely westering, in smokeless mackerel-sky.
1953 Interim Rep. Comm. Air Pollution 27 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 9011) VIII. 655 The ‘smokeless zone’ provision of some local Acts..apply to domestic as well as industrial smoke.
1969 A. E. Lindop Sight Unseen iv. 34 In spite of the fact that we were a smokeless zone I had a comfortable coal fire.
1976 Daily Record (Glasgow) 4 Dec. 12/3 It came at a public meeting after Stirling District Council had tried to get a smokeless zone order on the village quashed.
Derivatives
ˈsmokelessly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adverb] > not dirtying with specific dirt
smokelesslya1891
a1891 Engineer LXIX. 357 The appliances for..consuming coal smokelessly are already at work.
ˈsmokelessness n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [noun] > freedom from specific kinds of dirt
smokelessness1877
1877 Echo 18 July 1/1 Its Smokelessness, Cleanliness, and Great Economy over all other descriptions [of coal].
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smokeless tobacco n. originally and chiefly U.S. tobacco in any of various forms intended for consumption by a method other than smoking, such as chewing tobacco, snuff, or dip (dip n.1 Additions).
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1899 Chicago Tribune 3 Aug. 6 ‘You haven't any smokeless tobacco, have you?’ asked the smart young man. ‘Lots of it,’ said the matter-of-fact person behind the counter, producing a bladder of snuff.
1904 T. W. Jackson Through Missouri on Mule 16 Do you know that I invented smokeless tobacco. What kind of tobacco is that? Chewing.
1970 Life 18 Sept. 53/1 (advt.) You'll find that a pinch of our fine smokeless tobacco between gum and cheek sure beats smoking.
2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 16–17 Sept. a7/1 The vast majority of smokeless tobacco sales come from so-called moist snuff, which users place between their lip and gum.
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