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  • The use of the word in connexion with tobacco may, like that of "ebolition," have some reference to furious smoking, but the meaning is not clear.

    The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • "Cuban ebolition" across the table; and Will, probably rather nice in his personal habits, grew disgusted with the habit.

    Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

  • Taking the whiff, it has been suggested, may have been either a swallowing of the smoke, or a retaining it in the throat for a given space of time; but what may be meant by the "Cuban ebolition" or the

    The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

  • July 21, 1804 by a boiling motion or ebolition of it's waters occasioned no doubt by the roling and irregular motion of the sand of which its bed is entirely composed. the particles of this sand being remarkably small and light it is easily boied up and is hurried by this impetuous torrent in large masses from place to place in with irristable forse, collecting and forming sandbars in the course of a few hours which as suddingly disapated to form others and give place perhaps to the deepest channel of the river. where it enters the Missouri it's superior force changes and directs the courant of that river against it's northern bank where it is compressed within a channel less than one third of the width it had just before occupyed. it dose not furnish the missouri with it's colouring matter as has been asserted by some, but it throws into it immence quantities of sand and gives a celerity to it's courant of which it abates but little untill it's junction with the Mississippy. the water of this river is turbid at all seasons of the year but is by no means as much so as that of the Missourie.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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  • (noun) - A particular method of smoking. William Gifford says, "We may conjecture that it means a forcible and rapid ejection of smoke."

    --Robert Hunter's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1895

    January 14, 2018