[See def.] The name of a town in Venezuela used to designate a kind of tobacco (see quot. 1858). Also ellipt.
1747. W. Douglas, Brit. Settlements N. Amer. (1760), I. 116. Virginia tobacco, and Brazil, and Varinas tobacco, differ upon this account.
1839. ‘J. Fume’ (W. A. Chatto), Paper on Tobacco, 117. Varinas is usually imported in rolls, formed of the leaves of the tobacco spun into a kind of thick twist.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Varina’s [sic] roll, a kind of tobacco generally plaited round a thick stick, very much like C’naster.
