Word: chimneyed
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Smellie stipulated that the prime aim should be "utility," so that the encyclopedia has become in large measure a reference book on how to do useful things. There are, for instance, seven pages of instruction on how to build a chimney (under "Smoke"). Smellie himself undertook to write the treatises on 15 major sciences (out of the 45 listed), and his style has a charm of its own. Sample: "The Cat... Of all domestic animals, the character of the cat is the most equivocal and suspicious...
...owner of an Atlanta chimney-and furnace-cleaning firm, Foster indeed was a fan. "He wasn't authorized by Turner to do anything except call me," laughs Osmond, "but he got carried away and made the deal." Turner blithely went along with it. And Ed Barrow turned over in his grave...
...habit I got into, I guess, in my senior year in high school, going to the Town & Country Lounge at Big Chimney, the Meadowbrook Inn at Mill Creek, or the Bridge at Spencer. I'd talk to the construction workers who drank hard liquor every night and went to work every morning at six, to the whores with the piled-up hair the construction workers screwed every weekend, to the pool sharks and the bootleggers. All that was interesting, but what really pulled me there on Friday and Saturday nights when my friends had dates was the music. In every...
Tobacco is a filthy weed, And from the Devil doth proceed; Robs your pockets, burns your clothes, And makes a chimney out of your nose...
...then lowers the arms until the top log just touches the surface of the large one at the rear. This creates a cavity that opens into the room-a sort of wooden furnace that contains the fire and prevents much of its heat from immediately escaping up the chimney...