Venetian \Ve*ne"tian\, a. [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.]

Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.

Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.

Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.

Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.

Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.

Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.

Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.

Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.

Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.

Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Smoke \Smoke\, n. [AS. smoca, fr. sme['o]can to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm["o]g, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. ??? to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. smaugti to choke.]

1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

Note: The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot.

2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak.

4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.]

Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.

Smoke arch, the smoke box of a locomotive.

Smoke ball (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.

Smoke black, lampblack. [Obs.]

Smoke board, a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.

Smoke box, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney.

Smoke sail (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.

Smoke tree (Bot.), a shrub (Rhus Cotinus) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke.

To end in smoke, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)