Definition of tobacco

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Tobacco (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste..

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Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..
Canaster :: Canaster (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America..
Export :: Export (n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco..
Tobacco :: Tobacco (n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways..
Meerschaum :: Meerschaum (n.) A tobacco pipe made of this mineral.
Mundungus :: Mundungus (n.) A stinking tobacco.
Stemmy :: Stemmery (n.) A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.
Pipestone :: Pipestone (n.) A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite..
Rappee :: Rappee (v.) A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
Nicotian :: Nicotian (n.) Tobacco.
Stem :: Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached..
Pigtail :: Pigtail (n.) A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
Plug :: Plug (n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
Cheroot :: Cheroot (n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco..
Fig :: Fig (n.) A small piece of tobacco.
Pipe Clay :: Pipe clay () A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments..
Tobacconist :: Tobacconist (n.) A smoker of tobacco.
Coridine :: Coridine (n.) A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type..
Cigar :: Cigar (n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking..
Smoke :: Smoke (n.) The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke..
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