Found 2 items, similar to Smut.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: smut
smut
n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally
of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
[syn:
carbon black,
lampblack,
soot]
2: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses)
caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of
spores
3: any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn:
smut fungus]
4: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
desire [syn:
pornography,
porno,
porn,
erotica]
[also:
smutting,
smutted]
smut
v 1: make obscene;
“This line in the play smuts the entire act”
2: stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
3: become affected with smut;
“the corn smutted and could not
be eaten”
4: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
[also:
smutting,
smutted]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Smut
Smut
\Smut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Smutting.]
1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or
other dirty substance.
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2. To taint with mildew, as grain. --Bacon.
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3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
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4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.
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Smut
\Smut\, v. i.
1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become
smutted. --Mortimer.
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2. To give off smut; to crock.
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Smut
\Smut\, n. [Akin to Sw. smuts, Dan. smuds, MHG. smuz, G.
schmutz, D. smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig,
smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E.
smite. See
Smite, v. t., and cf.
Smitt,
Smutch.]
1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil
made by such matter.
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2. (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter,
found in the immediate locality of faults.
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3. (Bot.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling
which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It
is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus
Ustilago.
Ustilago segetum, or
U. Carbo, is the commonest kind;
that of Indian corn is
Ustilago maydis.
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4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
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He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk
smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
--Addison.
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Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.
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