LekhoriLekhoriAny plant of the genus Nicotiana.
Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.
A variety of tobacco.
Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
To treat with tobacco.
The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.
Two rivers in Michigan, United States.
A township in Gladwin County, Michigan, probably named after one of the rivers.
Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of the...
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