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. [1913 Webster] 2. To taint with mildew, as grain. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish. [1913 Webster] 4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill. [1913 Webster] Smut \Smut\, v. i. 1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 2. To give off smut; to crock. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. [1913 Webster] He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut. [1913 Webster]