Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class III. Words Relating to MatterSection III. Organic Matter
2. Sensation
(3) Taste
392. Pungency.
SHARPNESS &c. adj.; acrimony, acridity; roughness (sour) [See Pungency]; unsavoriness [See Unsavoriness].
[PUNGENT ARTICLES] niter, saltpeter; mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning (condiment) [See Condiment]; brine; carbonate of ammonia; sal-ammoniac, sal-volatile; smelling salts; hartshorn.
DRAM, cordial, nip, toothful [colloq.], tickler [colloq.], bracer [colloq.], pick-me-up [colloq.], potion, liqueur, pousse-café [F.].
TOBACCO, Lady Nicotine, Nicotiana, nicotian [rare], nicotine; snuff, quid; cigar or segar, cigarette, fag [slang], cheroot, Trichinopoli cheroot, Trichi [colloq.], Havana or Habana [Sp.], Cuban tobacco; weed [colloq.]; fragrant -, Indian-weed; Cavendish, fid [dial.], niggerhead or negro head, rappee, stogy, old soldier [slang].
RENDER PUNGENT &c. adj.; season, spice, bespice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil, curry.
USE TOBACCO, smoke, chew, inhale, take snuff.
SALT, saline, brackish, briny; salt as -brine, – a herring, – Lot’s wife.
- For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.—Lamb
- The man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.—Lytton
- To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.—Lowell
- Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight.—Paradise Lost
- Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe.—Byron
- Come, look not pale! observe me!—B. Jonson
- O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet.—Othello
- Sweet to the world and grateful to the skies.—Pope