A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium, Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory, A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray, intransitive verb_ To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine, To do so regularly or habitually, To defeat decisively, as in a competition.

The wood of a eudicot or a magnoliid, such as an oak, maple, or magnolia, The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers); also items made from such wood, A hardwood tree, adjective_ Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as eg oak; consisting of a hardwood; ; -- of wood and wooden objects