Verb (used without object) : to be eaten as soon as it smoke-dries. From Dictionary.com.
For since this smoke-dried tongue of mine hath spoken. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Thus they smoke-dried their present store, and added a little flour to it. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Dulwich -- he wrote in the sanded and smoke-dried parlour of the Lion, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference
When the meat is smoke-dried it keeps for a long time, and is capital food. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
He would have been smoke-dried -- suffocated, years ago, if it hadn't been for me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
The corpse's head is anointed, then it is smoke-dried and laid in the grave at full length, stones or earth being piled on it. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
They secure large quantities of fish in this way, which, when smoke-dried, make a good relish for their otherwise insipid food. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Waking at midnight, he added fuel to the fire; he was hungry and finished the last of the smoke-dried fish the boatman had supplied. From Wordnik.com. [Last Sword Of Power]
But no one need be case-hardened, smoke-dried, angular. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
The houses had tiny smoke-dried gardens in front of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of the Dawn] Reference
She was rather smoke-dried too, from perpetual wood-smoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
He lived in a cabin of love, till he was weary of his smoke-dried. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
I bought this, in lieu of the smoke-dried thing, and had it a bargain. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Absentee] Reference
Presidio guardroom, he felt the salt breath of the distant sea buffet a color into his smoke-dried cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
Her hair was grizzled, and the straggling tresses hung untrammelled about her smoke-dried and hard-lined visage. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
The farther door of the smoke-dried kitchen opened on to the farm-yard, around which were stables and neat-houses. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
He was seen a mile away from the cheerless camp, where his companions, with smoke-dried eyes, lamented his absence. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
A poor, smoke-dried, shrivelled cook shames her guid savoury dishes, intended to fatten mankind and make them jolly. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII] Reference
The tavern was astir, and the figure of the old, smoke-dried stage-agent, cigar in mouth, was seen beneath the stoop. From Wordnik.com. [The Snow Image and other stories] Reference
This dry meat, and smoke-dried fish, constituted our daily food, and that in very insufficient quantity for hardworking men. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific] Reference
There were often more than we could eat fresh; the remainder were sun or smoke-dried, and, hung up, kept for a considerable time. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference
The square garden too, with its smoke-dried trees and faded lawn, was at her disposal, in which she might walk, or work, or read. From Wordnik.com. [The Firm of Girdlestone] Reference
Grenada and Leon, which, in spite of the breath of the two oceans, get smoke-dried by the time the dry season advances into March. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852] Reference
The chimney was originally constructed for a wood fire upon the hearth, and of enormous size, so that several sides of bacon could be hung up inside to be smoke-dried. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
The doctor, ever fertile in resources, had had a stone hut constructed in which both birds and fish could be smoke-dried after the fashion practised in England and elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference
The hag, a smoke-dried, dirty-looking beldame, with a patch over one eye, and an idiotic expression of face, began to mutter and make an odd noise at the sight of the sick lady. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
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