smut

[Properly smutch (q. v.); cf. Sw.smet = grease, filth; smeta =to bedaub; smitta =contagion; smitte to infect; Dan.smitte =contagion.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: A spot made with soot or coal; the foul matter itself; a particle of soot. "The steam of lamps still hanging on her cheeks In ropy smut." Dryden: Juvenal, sat. vi. 2. Fig .: Obscene or ribald language; obscenity, ribaldry. "Spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies." Pope: Sutires. (Prol.) chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-1641.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to be attacked by smut. "White red-eared wheat is good for clays, and bears a very good crop, and seldom smuts." -Mortimer : uusbandry. 2. To give off smut; to crock. smutch, v . t. [Sw. smuts =smut, dirt. flth, smuts a to dirt, to sully; Dan.smuds =filth; smudse =to soil, to dirty.] [SMUDGE, SMUT.] To blacken or soil with smoke, soot, or coal; to smudge. "What? Has't smutched thy nose?"- Shakesp .: Winter's Tale , i. 2. smutch, *smutche, s. [SMUTCH, v.] A foul spot. or mark; a stain, a smudge. "Here and there an ugly smutch appears." Cowper : Task , iv. 608. smut-mill, subst . [Eng. smut , and mill .] A machine for cleansing grain from smut or mildew. smut-ti-lý, adv. [Eng.smutty; -ly.] 1. In a smutty manner; blackly, foully. 2. In an obscene manner; with obscene or filthy language. ( Tatler , No. 269.)