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καπν-ίζω ,
A.make smoke, i.e. make a fire, Ep. aor. 1 “κάπνισσαν” Il.2.399; use as a fumigation, “τροχίσκον” Paul.Aeg.3.28.
II. smoke, blacken with smoke, D.54.4, Sopat.6.9, PMasp.141 ii a25 (vi A.D.):—Pass., to be smoked, “ὁ ἠπίολος φεύγει -όμενος” Arist.HA605b16; of the eyes, suffer from smoke, Id.Pr.957b33, cf. 896b8; of cookery, καπνιζομένη τυραννίς empire of the smoke, Demetr.Com.Nov.1.4; κλίβανοσ-όμενος smoking furnace, LXXGe.15.17.
2. intr.in Act., to be black with smoke, pf.“κεκάπνικα” Ar.Pax892; “τὸ ὄρος τὸ καπνίζον” LXXEx.20.18; κρύσταλλος ἡ -ίζουσαsmoky quartz, PHolm.6.38: metaph., [θυμὸν] καπνίζοντα (v.l. -ιῶντα）“ καὶ διακαιόμενον” Plu.2.454e.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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