sooshong

[SOUCHONG.] soô soô, sứ-sû, s. [Native name.] Zool.: Platan ist a gang etic a , the Gangetic Dolphin, one of the oldest Cetaceans known, since Pliny and Ælian both allude to it. [PLATAN IST A.] soot, *sot, *sote, s . [A. S. sót ; cogn. with Icel. sót ; Sw.sot; Dan.sod; Lith. sódis ; Ir. suth ; Gael. suith ; Wel. swta .] Small carbonaceous particles arising from fuel in a state of imperfect combustion, and generally adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying smoke upward. These sooty particles impart the dark color to smoke (q. v.). The composition of soot slightly varies according as it comes from coal or from wood. It is a good manure. " Soot is tried to be a very good compost."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 597. soot-wart, s. Pathol .: A wart of a cancerous type produced on the scrotum of chimney-sweeps by soot. Called also Chimney-sweep's Cancer. soot, v. t. [SOOT, 8.] 1. To cover or foul with soot. 2. To manure with soot. "Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit." Pope : Dunciad , i. 126. *soot-flake, subst . [Eng. soot , s., and flake .] A flake or particle of soot, a smut, a smudge.