asmoke

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ smoke.

Adjective

asmoke (not comparable)

1. Smoking; giving off steam or fog.
   • 1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare […] Touching Dear-Steeling‎^[1], London: Saunders and Otley, page 63:

     It appeareth to me that even to praise one’s-self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke.

   • 1907, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Lancelot and His Companions‎^[2], New York: Scribner, Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 312:

     […] there was a smooth and shining lake, the chill waters whereof were all asmoke in the gentle warmth of the newly risen sun.

   • 1934, Maurice Walsh, The Road to Nowhere‎^[3], London: W. & R. Chambers, Part 3, Chapter 3:

     With the fall of dark the woman left him sitting gloomily asmoke on his soap-box before the fire, and went up into the van.

   • 1995, C. J. Cherryh, chapter 1, in Fortress in the Eye of Time‎^[4], New York: HarperPrism, page 1:

     The shrines of its gods and heroes, their altars asmoke with incense offerings, had watched over commerce and statecraft, lords and ladies, workmen and peasant farmers alike, in long and pleasant prosperity.