Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing clouds (of tobacco-smoke).

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  • adjective that produces clouds of smoke

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Examples

  • I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using mundungus with nepheligenous results.

    Single Word Open Thread #1 « Whatever 2007

  • We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.

    Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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  • JM used to be a nepheligenous fella - then the misocapnists got to him.

    November 22, 2009