[SMOKE sb. 1.] A form of lamp-black obtained by the combustion of resinous materials.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 204. The black sealing Wax is ting’d or colour’d with Smoak Black.
1841. Lane, Arab. Nts., I. 130. An inferior kind is the smoke-black produced by burning the shells of almonds.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Smoke-black, a substance prepared by the combustion of different resinous bodies.
1896. De Vinne, Moxon’s Printing, 412. The crude smoke-black of commerce.
