tobacco
IPA: tʌbˈækoʊ
noun
- (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
- (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
- (countable) A variety of tobacco.
verb
- (intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
- (transitive) To treat with tobacco.
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Examples of "tobacco" in Sentences
- He has smoked tobacco for ten years.
- Tobacco is the main crop of the town.
- Tobacco comes from the word for the pipe.
- Quiney was a vintner and dealt in tobacco.
- Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco products.
- In Spanish, refers to adulterated tobacco generally.
- Alcohol and tobacco were proscribed in the early years.
- As the popularity of tobacco grew it became the savior of the colonies.
- As the popularity of tobacco grew, it became the savior of the colonies.
- He described tobacco as a panacea and sent tobacco plants to the French court.
- Furthermore, and oh, you tobacco users, take heed: _we would not be permitted to take in any tobacco_.
- The rise of the use of marijuana in the United States has brought about the use of the term tobacco cigarette.
- _tobacco_ ones (except those actually employed in raising tobacco) now spread over those parts of our territories to the
- Though every lover of tobacco is not a slave to rum, yet _almost every drunkard is a slave to tobacco_; and this is indirect evidence that the habits are in a manner associated, or have a sort of natural affinity.
- Had A.C. M. recollected that tobacco (_Nicotiana_) is an American plant, he would hardly have asked whether "_tobacco_ is the word in the original" of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his _Preliminary Discourse_, § 5.p. 123. (4to. ed.
- Suppose Count Mercier wished to say that he was sorry that his tobacco had been captured by the foe, why should he couch it in such language as, 'Thá mee ongan hréowan thaet mín _tobacco_ on feónda geweald feran sceolde' -- which is the good _old_ Anglo-Saxon idiom. '
- It was returning to the gratification of a depraved appetite in the use of tobacco; and I have no hesitancy in declaring it as my opinion, that could the causes of the many acts of suicide, committed in the United States, be investigated, it would be found, that many instances were owing to the effects of _tobacco_ upon the nervous system.
- Or without the smoking, to breathe where tobacco is burnt, -- _that_ calms the nervous system in a wonderful manner, as I experienced once myself when, recovering from an illness, I could not sleep, and tried in vain all sorts of narcotics and forms of hop-pillow and inhalation, yet was tranquillized in one half hour by a _pinch_ of _tobacco_ being burnt in a shovel near me.
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